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? ? I N D IA N EDUCAT I O N I N AME R I CA BY VINE DELORIA, .JR., & DANIEL WILDCAT

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Copyright ? 2001 Vine Deloria, Jr., and Daniel Wildcat

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Deloria, Vine.

Power and place : Indian education in America I Vine Deloria, Jr., and Daniel Wildcat.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-55591-859-X (pbk.) 1. Indians of North America-Education. 2. Education and state-United States. 3. Indian students-Government policy United States. 4. United States-Social policy. I. Wildcat, Daniel. II. Title. E97 .D47 2001 371.829'97-dc21

2001001721

Portions of this book were first published

in Winds ofChange magazine

B ook design: Pauline Brown, Pebble Graphics

Cover illustration and design ? 2001 Kayeri Akweks Cover images: Courtesy of the Cumberland County Historical

S ociety, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The same Navajo group is pictured in 1882-before (top image) and after (bottom image) entering the Carlisle Indian School.

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BOOKS BY VIN E D E L O RIA, .JR.

Behind the Trail ofBroken Treaties:An Indian Declaration ofIndependence

Custer Diedfar Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

GodIs Red:A Native View ofReligion

The Metaphysics ofExistence

Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth ofScientific Fact Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr., Reader

CONTE NTS

Preface by Vine Deloria, Jr. V Preface: Prelude to a Dialogu.e by Daniel Wildcat VII

CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 1 0

CHAPTER 1 1

CHAPTER 1 2

CHAPTER 1 3

CHAPTER 1 4

CHAPTER 1 5

American Indian Metaphysics-Deloria

lndigenizing Education: Playing to Our Strengths-Wildcat 7

Power and Place Equal Personality-Deloria 2 1

Understanding the Crisis in American. Education-Wildcat 29

Knowing and Understanding-Deloria 41

The Schizophrenic Nature ofWestern Metaphysics-Wildcat 47

Traditional Technology--Deloria 57

Technological Homelessness-Wildcat 67

Transitional Education-Deloria 79

lndigenizing Politics and Ethics: A Realist Theory-Wildcat 87

Property and Self-Government As Educational Initiatives-Deloria 1 0 1

Practical Professional Indigenous Education-Wildcat 1 1 3

Higher Education and Self-Determination-Deloria 1 23

The Qyestion of Self Determination-Wildcat 1 35

The Perpetual Education Report-Deloria 1 5 1

Bibliography 1 63 Index 1 65

PREFACE

by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Formal Indian education in America stretches all the way from reservation preschools in rural Native communities to prestigious urban universities far away from Indian cultural centers. The edu cational journey of modern Indian people is one spanning two dis tinct value systems and worldviews. It is an adventure in which the Native American sacred view must inevitably encounter the mate rial and pragmatic focus of the larger American society. In that meeting ground lies an opportunity for the two cultures to both teach and learn from each other.

Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress from grade school through college and on into the professions. Subject matter as diverse as the school sys tems of the Five Civilized Tribes in the early 1800s to what Albert Einstein's theory of relativity really means is found on these pages. Native people navigating American systems of higher education must absorb a great deal of factual content, and they must also place that knowledge into the context oftheir own tribal and com munity traditions. For American Indian students the scientific method and the Western worldview coexist with Native spiritual ity and a deep connection with the earth.

This collection of fifteen essays on Indian Education is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. Beginning with an essay on American Indian metaphysics and progressing to a bold, uplifting scenario for an Indian future grounded in education, Power and Place offers a concise reference for administrators, educators, students, and community leaders involved with Indian education.

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