Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

education of American Indians  

Definition

  • For centuries, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian families and communities have exercised their inherent sovereign rights to educate their children according to their own values, goals, and circumstances. Sovereign self-education by Native communities has for much of the past 5 centuries been at odds with, forcibly suppressed by, or actively criminalized by colonial systems of schooling that provided an education for American Indians dedicated to “erasing and replacing” assimilationalist policies and practices. [Source: Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education; American Indians, Education of]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/education_of_American_Indians

Download this concept: