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To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Educationreviewed by Jim Vandergriff - December 07, 2006 Title: To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education Author(s): K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Teresa L. McCarty Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807747165 , Pages: 213, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com To Remain an Indian is an excellent book on so many levels that it is difficult to know how to begin a review of it. It is an important book that should be read carefully by everyone who has any role in Native American education or who has any other influence over Native American lifegovernment policy makers, social workers, tribal leaders, and every American who votes for policy makers. Moreover, it should not merely be read, but carefully attended to.
The key point of the bookif I may be permitted a bit of reductionismwhich is very clearly stated on page xxii, is that U.S. society and government were not
simply vacillating through swings of a pendulum between tolerance and intolerance. Each generation was working out, in a systematic way, its notion of a safety zone, an area where dangerously different cultural expressions might be safely domesticated and thus neutralized.
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- Jim Vandergriff
Knox College E-mail Author JIM VANDERGRIFF is Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Dr. Vandergriff has two articles on Missouri Folklore currently in press and two articles on Native American education in circulation. One of his current projects includes interviewing Navajo adults about their boarding school experiences. Dr. Vandergriff is now working on a book of readings in Missouri folklore.
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