Education beyond the Mesas

Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929

Autor: Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

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Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from n...

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Autor

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2010

Pagini

272

EAN

9780803216266

ISBN

0803216262

Enbook ID

04922461

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

476

Dimensiuni

140 x 216 x 27

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Education beyond the Mesas is the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from north-eastern Arizona "turned the power" by using compulsory federal education to affirm their way of life and better their community. Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, one of the largest off-reservation boarding schools in the United States, followed other federally funded boarding schools of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in promoting the assimilation of indigenous people into mainstream America. Many Hopi schoolchildren, deeply conversant in Hopi values and traditional education before being sent to Sherman Institute, resisted this program of acculturation. Immersed in learning about another world, generations of Hopi children drew on their culture to skilfully navigate a system designed to change them irrevocably. In fact, not only did the Hopi children strengthen their commitment to their families and communities while away in the "land of oranges"; they used their new skills, fluency in English, and knowledge of politics and economics to help their people when they eventually returned home. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert draws on interviews, archival records, and his own experiences growing up in the Hopi community to offer a powerful account of a quiet, enduring triumph.

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