Martha Louise Hipp

Sovereign Schools (eBook, PDF)

How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation

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Produktbeschreibung

Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off-reservation public schools. Martha Louise Hipp describes the successful fight through sustained Native community activism for public school sovereignty during the late 1960s and 1970s on the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes' Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Parents and students at Wind River experienced sustained educational discrimination in their school districts, particularly at the high schools located in towns bordering the reservation, not least when these public schools failed to incorporate history and culture of the Shoshones and Arapahos into...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bison Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496213648
• Artikelnr.: 70883580

Autorenporträt

Martha Louise Hipp, PhD, is a retired psychologist and formerly served as psychologist for the Fremont County District 14 federally funded schools. She is a former president of the Colorado Psychological Association.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Precursors: Massacres, “Agreements,” Boarding Schools, and Strategies
for Survival
2. Self-Determination: A Twentieth-Century Use for the Schools
3. Why the Wind River People Wanted a School: Late 1960s
4. False Promises: Mid-1971
5. The Non-Indian Fight over Indian Resources: Fluid Minerals and Hard
Feelings, 1969–72
6. Reservation Organizations Oppose the School: Early 1970s
7. Indian School Opens: 1971–72
8. Indian People Speak, Face Retaliation: 1972–73
9. Fights in the Wyoming and Federal Courts: 1973–75
10. Control of Their Destiny: 1975–80s
11. As Seen from the Sun Dance Grounds: A Public School
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index