DIVERSITY AND EQUITY: SCHOOLING AND AMERICAN INDIANS

Introduction: Assimilation through Scientific Management

Political-Economic Foundations of Indian Schooling

• A World before Europeans
• Treaties and the "Trust Relationship"

Ideology

• Traditional Knowledge versus Science and Progress

Schooling the Native American

• Social Education, from Land Allotment to Boarding Schools
• Criticism of the Boarding School
• Scientific Management and Educational Reform
• "Progressive" Indian Education: Early Years
• The Influence of John Collier
• Collier's Early Career
• Collier as Commissioner of Indian Affairs
• Willard Walcott Beatty: Progressive Education for Native Americans
• Schooling and Assimilation of the Indian Child

Afterword: The Case of the Navajo

Concluding Remarks

Primary Source Reading: The Hopi Way (1944)

Primary Source Reading: Statements by Three American

Indian Educators

Questions for Discussion and Examination