Education Beyond the Mesas Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929

Name: Education Beyond the Mesas Hopi Students at Sherman Institute, 1902-1929
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ISBN: 9780803216266

ISBN-10: 0803216262

ISBN-13: 9780803216266

Edition: 2010

Authors: Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert

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Education beyond the Mesasis the fascinating story of how generations of Hopi schoolchildren from northeastern 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.…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Hopi Resistance



Policies and Assimilation



The Orayvi Split and Hopi Schooling



Elder in Residence



Taking Hopi Knowledge to School



Learning to Preach



Returning to Hopi


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index