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- Title
American Indian Self-determination in Education and the Department of Interior.
- Authors
Hopkins, Tom R.
- Abstract
In this Report from the Field, the author draws on over 60 years of experience in American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) education to examine and reflect on the exercise of AI/AN educational selfdetermination. Using two cases as examples -- one involving the federally mandated closure of two key off-reservation boarding schools and the other, nearly 30 years later, involving implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 -- the author critiques the processes by which self-determination has been "trumped" by non-Indian, noneducator Interior Department officials. Bureau of Indian Educationfunded schools, dormitories, and programs are cautioned to monitor Department of Interior initiatives regarding American Indian rights to self-determination in education.
- Subjects
EDUCATION of Native Americans; EDUCATION of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; MINORITY students; MINORITIES; NO Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- Publication
Journal of American Indian Education, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 1, p54
- ISSN
0021-8731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jaie.2014.a798530