Indian Education for All: Decolonizing Indigenous Education in Public Schools

Contents

Series Foreword?vii
James A. Banks

Acknowledgments?xiii

Preface?xv
Terminology?xv
Key Concepts in Native Studies?xvi
The Way Forward?xvii

Introduction?1
Indigenous Education Reform?3
Indian Schooling vs. Indigenous Education?5
Montana?s Inclusive Conversation of Indigenous Education Reform?7
The Philosophical Problem of IEFA?8
Methodologies?10
Overview of Chapters?12

1.??Montana?s Indian Education for All: A Critical Overview?15
IEFA: Historical Background and Description?17
Developments in IEFA?21
The Inclusive Strategies of IEFA?24
Inclusive Conversations?28
The Limits of Inclusion?30
A Turn Toward Decolonizing Conversations?33

2.??Colonizing Minds, Bodies, and Lands: Historical Interpretations of Indigenous Education Reform?37
A Mainstream Account of U.S.?Indigenous Relations?40
Colonialism: A Theory?42
Settler Colonialism and Structural Violence?43
The Dominant Colonizing Voice?47
Montana?s Colonizing Education History?54
Implications for IEFA?58

3.??The Indigenous Voice of Survivance: Decolonizing Narratives?61
Decolonization?64
The Indigenous Voice of Survivance?72
Survivance and the Seven Essential Understandings?80
Survivance and Decolonization?82

4.??The Politics of Reconciliation: Rethinking the Pathway to Indigenous Education Reform?85
Reconciliation: A Basic Concept?87
The Politics of Reconciliation?92
Reconciliation and Decolonization?98
Reconciliation and the Indigenous Voice of Survivance?100
IEFA and Reconciliation: A Pathway Toward Reform?103
Building and Strengthening Partnerships?104

5.??Decentering Western Epistemology: A Tribal Knowledge Paradigm for Public Schools?109
Tribal Critical Race Theory?112
Key Tenets of TribalCrit?114
Mato Tipila, or ?The Lodge of the Bear?: A Case Study?115
Knowledge Paradigms: Tribal and Western?117
Curriculum, Public Schools, and Traditional Western Epistemology?124
Decentering Western Epistemology?126
Tribal Knowledge and Western Epistemology: A Relationship?130

6.??Desettling Teacher Preparation Programs: A Theory and Praxis?133
Teacher Preparation Programs and Cultural Competence?135
Indigenous-Centered Teacher Preparation Programs?141
Desettling: A Theory of Learning?144
Desettling Praxis?146

Conclusion: Envisioning a Way Forward?153
Rethinking Indigenous Education Reform Beyond Montana?154
Reconciliation: The Way Forward?157
Maine?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Case Study?159
Reconciliation Beyond Montana?160
Concluding Remarks?169

References?171

Index?185

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