education
The Chemawa Indian School
During the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, American policies regarding Indians focused on assimilation. Under these policies, the American government sought to destroy […]
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Centuries of Genocide: Modoc Indians, Part IV
In case you missed anything… Part I describes the first generation of Modoc people to contact European-Americans, and the slow war in the Klamath Basin […]
Salish Kootenai College
The Navajo Community College was established in Tsaile, Arizona in 1969. This college was an outgrowth of the idea of self-determination in which the tribes […]
Choctaw Education After Removal
By 1840, some 40,000 Indians from the Five Civilized Tribes-Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole-had been resettled in what is now Oklahoma as a part […]
Indian Art Education in the 1930s
During the 1930s, with the United States in the midst of the First Great Depression, American Indian art began to emerge as a form of […]
The Importance of Cultural Education
Much of what is known of Native American culture in non-Native communities is what has been romanticized in movies, books, and other forms of media […]
Moor’s Indian Charity School
( – promoted by navajo) Many Christian missionaries, both Protestant and Catholic, have wrestled with the problem of how best to convert the “pagan” Indians. […]
Native American Food: Camas
( – promoted by navajo) The Plateau Culture Area is the region which extends east from the Cascade Mountains in Washington to the Rocky Mountains […]
American Indian Biography: John Rollin Ridge, Cherokee Writer
( – promoted by navajo) When John Rollin Ridge died in 1867 he was eulogized as one of California’s great poets and political commentator. To […]
Albert Fall & the Suppression of Indian Religions
( – promoted by navajo) In 1921, Albert Fall, the former Senator from New Mexico, was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Warren Harding. […]