Native American Education

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Native American education will be examined by investigating historical and contemporary perspectives of Native Peoples’ and settlers’ ideas of education and the latter’s development of educational systems. Students will survey various types of schools (missionary, boarding, public, etc.), read Native student accounts of westernized schooling, and examine key historical and contemporary policies, laws, and reports, as well as curricular and pedagogical literature. Native perspectives will become central to understanding present and future trends in education to transform educational futures while centering and supporting sovereignty, self-determination, and cultural continuance.