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  • An Appalachian School in Coal Country

    Facing the Challenges of a Changing Region

    by Terry Huffman ...
    An Appalachian School in Coal Country examines the struggles and triumphs of an elementary school in one of the poorest counties in the United States. Despite economic crisis in the county, Creekside Elementary School is achieving unprecedented academic success. This study explores the objectives, goals, and challenges of the educators of Creekside Elementary and the ways in which they are able to ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • American Indian Educators in Reservation Schools

    by Terry Huffman ...
    The role of Native American teachers and administrators working in reservation schools has received little attention from scholars. Utilizing numerous interviews and extensive fieldwork, Terry Huffman shows how they define their roles and judge their achievements. He examines the ways they address the complex issues of cultural identity that affect their students and themselves and how they cope ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Tribal Strengths and Native Education

    Voices from the Reservation Classroom

    by Terry Huffman ...
    In 1889, Sitting Bull addressed the formal, Western-style education of his people. “When you find something good in the white man's road, pick it up,” he intoned. “When you find something that is bad . . . leave it alone. We shall master his machinery, and his inventions, his skills, his medicine, his planning, but we will retain our beauty and still be Indians.”Sitting Bull's vision—that cultural ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education

    Taking a New Look at Academic Success and the Achievement Gap

    by Terry Huffman ...
    Series series Contemporary Native American Communities
    Theoretical Perspectives on American Indian Education introduces four prominent theoretical perspectives on American Indian education: cultural discontinuity theory, structural inequality, interactionalist theory, and transculturation theory. By including readings that each feature a theoretical perspective, Huffman provides a comparison of each perspective's basic premise, fundamental assumptions ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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    Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education

    by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Teresa L. McCarty ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    What might we learn from Native American experiences with schools to help us forge a new vision of the democratic ideal—one that respects, protects, and promotes diversity and human rights? In this fascinating portrait of American Indian education over the past century, the authors critically evaluate U.S. education policies and practices, from early 20th-century federal incarnations of colonial ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    by Leanne Simpson ...
    Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Legacy

    Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

    by Suzanne Methot ...
    Winner of the 2019–20 Huguenot Society of Canada Award“Powerful … A deeply empathetic and inspiring work with insights of value to anyone struggling to overcome personal or communal trauma.” — Library Journal“[A] beautifully written book about strategies for healing from intergenerational trauma … In crystal-clear prose, Methot has written a book that is both easy to follow and crucial to read.” — ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indigenous Healing

    Exploring Traditional Paths

    by Rupert Ross ...
    Imagine a world in which people see themselves as embedded in the natural order, with ethical responsibilities not only toward each other, but also toward rocks, trees, water and all nature. Imagine seeing yourself not as a master of Creation, but as the most humble, dependent and vulnerable part.Rupert Ross explores this indigenous world view and the determination of indigenous thinkers to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Identity Politics of Difference

    The Mixed-Race American Indian Experience

    by Michelle Montgomery ...
    In Identity Politics of Difference, author Michelle R. Montgomery uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine questions of identity construction and multiracialism through the experiences of mixed-race Native American students at a tribal school in New Mexico. She explores the multiple ways in which these students navigate, experience, and understand their racial status and how this status ... Read more

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  • Deep Diversity

    A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice

    by Shakil Choudhury ...
    “Shakil is a rare jewel in the work of what it means to heal, repair, and take responsibility... This book is required reading for anyone interested in building a loving, just and diverse world.”—Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher & author of Wholehearted: Slow Down, Help Out, Wake UpRacial justice without shame or blame.Road-tested tools to start making a difference today.In <... ... Read more

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  • Who Cares?

    How to Reshape a Democratic Politics

    by Joan C. Tronto ...
    Series series Brown Democracy Medal
    The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective.Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit"—that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves—she asks us to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Learning and Teaching Together

    Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Education

    by Michele TD Tanaka ...
    Across Canada, new curriculum initiatives require teachers to introduce students to Aboriginal content. In response, many teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning and teaching are seeking ways to respectfully weave this material into their lessons.Learning and Teaching Together introduces teachers of all levels to an indigenist approach to education. Tanaka recounts how pre ... Read more

    $25.19 USD