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9780805837612

A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805837612

  • ISBN10:

    0805837612

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-01
  • Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

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This account, authorized by the Rough Rock Demo. School community, documents the history of the school-the first controlled by a locally elected, all Navajo governing board, & to teach in & through the Native lang., innovations which have made it a leade

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword ix
Joel Spring
Foreword xi
Joshua A. Fishman
Preface xv
Teresa L. McCarty
Acknowledgments xix
Framing the Story
1(6)
People, Place, and Ethnographic Texts
7(14)
``How It Was''
21(18)
``We Were Going to School Being Taught Only by Anglos''
39(16)
A Portrait of Change
55(16)
Origin Stories
71(12)
Community and Classroom
83(18)
The Problems and Politics of Program Evaluation
101(12)
The Two Faces of Self-Determination
113(18)
Transitions and Turmoil
131(16)
``If We Want To Be Powerful, We Have to Exercise Our Power'': Indigenous Teachers as Change Agents
147(20)
Protest
167(12)
``What if the Children Forget the Navajo Language?''
179(14)
Epilogue: ``The Hopes and Dreams of Rough Rock'' 193(8)
References 201(14)
Author Index 215(6)
Subject Index 221(8)
About the Author 229(1)
About the Photographer 229

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