On Our Own Terms

Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy

Meredith McCoy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2024
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3249-6 (ISBN)

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On Our Own Terms contextualizes recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and an equally long and persistent tradition of Indigenous peoples engaging schools, funding, and policy on their own terms. Focusing primarily on the years 1819 to 2018, Meredith L. McCoy provides an interdisciplinary, methodologically expansive look into the ways federal Indian education policy has all too often been a tool for structural violence against Native peoples. Of particular note is a historical budget analysis that lays bare inconsistencies in federal support for Indian education and the ways funds become a tool for redefining educational priorities.

McCoy shows some of the diverse strategies families, educators, and other community members have used to creatively navigate schooling on their own terms. These stories of strategic engagement with schools, funding, and policy embody what Gerald Vizenor has termed survivance, an insistence of Indigenous presence, trickster humor, and ironic engagement with settler structures. By gathering these stories together into an archive of survivance stories in education, McCoy invites readers to consider ongoing patterns of Indigenous resistance and the possibilities for bending federal systems toward community well-being.

Meredith L. McCoy (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe descent) is an assistant professor of American studies and history at Carleton College.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Witnessing Indigenous Future-Building in Archives of Survivance
1. Toward Indigenous Futures in Mission and Boarding Schools
2. Settler Policy and Indigenous Resistance in Public Schools
3. Behind the Funding Promise of Self-Determination
4. Consultation, Classroom Content, and Government Relations under ESSA
Conclusion: Building Indigenous Futures
Appendix 1: Anticipated Federal Appropriations and Outlays Based on Inflation
Appendix 2: Data Sources for Discourse Tracing
Appendix 3: Structured Questions for Discourse Tracing
Appendix 4: Indian Education Funds over Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Indigenous Education
Zusatzinfo	4 photographs, 1 illustration, 4 appendixes, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4962-3249-6 / 1496232496
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3249-6 / 9781496232496
Zustand	Neuware