Power and Place

by Deloria, Jr., Vine; Wildcat, Daniel R.

• ISBN13: 9781555918590
• ISBN10: 155591859X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Summary

Formal Indian education in America stretches all the way from reservation preschools to prestigious urban universities. "Power and Place" examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of 16 essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary.

Author Biography

Vine Deloria Jr., is a leading Native American scholar whose research writings, and teaching have encompassed history, law, religious studies, and political science. He is the former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Named by Time magazine as one of the eleven greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century, he is the author of numerous acclaimed books, including God is Red, Custer Died for Your Sins, Power and Place, and Red Earth, White Lies. Mr. Deloria lives in Golden, Colorado.

Daniel R. Wildcat (Yuchi, Muscogee) is the director of the American Indian studies program and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He is the coauthor with Vine Deloria Jr. of Power and Place: Indian Education in America.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Preface: Prelude to a Dialogue	vii
Daniel Wildcat
American Indian Metaphysics---Deloria	1	(6)
Indigenizing Education: Playing to Our Strengths---Wildcat	7	(14)
Power and Place Equal Personality---Deloria	21	(8)
Understanding the Crisis in American Education---Wildcat	29	(12)
Knowing and Understanding---Deloria	41	(6)
The Schizophrenic Nature of Western Metaphysics---Wildcat	47	(10)
Traditional Technology---Deloria	57	(10)
Technological Homelessness---Wildcat	67	(12)
Transitional Education---Deloria	79	(8)
Indigenizing Politics and Ethics: A Realist Theory---Wildcat	87	(14)
Property and Self-Government As Educational Initiatives---Deloria	101	(12)
Practical Professional Indigenous Education---Wildcat	113	(10)
Higher Education and Self-Determination---Deloria	123	(12)
The Question of Self-Determination---Wildcat	135	(16)
The Perpetual Education Report---Deloria	151	(12)
Bibliography	163	(2)
Index	165