Power and Place: Indian Education in America

Albuquerque, New Mexico and Golden, Colorado: American Indian Graduate Center and Fulcrum Publishing, 2001. Second Printing . Trade Paperback. Fine. 6" x 9. Akweks, Kayeri - Cover Illusration and Design. 168 Pages Indexed. Fine book with flawless interior text pages. Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through the schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. Formal lndian education in America stretches from reservation preschools to prestigious urban universities far away from Indian cultural centers. This educational journey spans two distinct value systems and worldviews. In that meeting ground lies the opportunity for the two cultures to both teach and learn from one another. This book examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. It is an effort to open discussion about the unique experience of Native Americans and offers a concise reference for administrators, educators, students and community leaders involved with Indian education. Vine Deloria Jr. is a Standing Rock Sioux. A retired professor of political science at the University of Arizona and a retired professor of history at the University of Colorado. He is a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. He was named by Time magazine as one of the eleven most influential religious thinkers in the twentieth century. Daniel R. Wildcat is a Yuchi member of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma. He is co-director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center and American Indian Studies faculty member at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. Contents in 15 Chapters (Essays): American Indian Metaphysics, Indigenizing Education: Playing to Our Strengths, Power and Place Equal Personality, Understanding the Crisis in American Education, Knowing and Understanding, The Schizophrenic Nature of Western Metaphysics, Traditional Technology, Technological Homelessness, Transitional Education. Indigenizing Politics and Ethics: A Realist Theory, Property and Self-Government As Educational Initiatives, Practical Professional Indigenous Education, Higher Education and Self-Determination, The Question of Self- Determination, and The Perpetual Education Report. Bibliography included.