The American Indian Education KnowledgeBase : Element 1: Foundations and Current Status of American Indian Education
Purpose:
To ensure educators working with American Indian students are aware of past efforts at improving the academic achievement of these students, the limited success of these efforts, and current federally funded Indian education programs
Educators will:
- Understand past efforts to assimilate Indians through English-only assimilationist schooling and the opposition Indians may show to efforts at forced assimilation.
- Know the lasting effects of the Indian New Deal of the 1930s on American Indian education.
- Understand the effects of the Indian Self-Determination and Civil Rights movements on American Indian education.
- Understand the relationship between Indian tribes, states, and the federal government's Bureau of Indian Education.
- Activity 1: Understand the History of American Indian Education
- Task 1: Understand the Assimilationist History of American Indian Education
- Task 2: Learn about the Indian New Deal of the 1930s
- Task 3: Understand the Impact of the Indian Self-Determination and Civil Rights Movements on Indian Education
- Activity 2: Understand the Current Status of American Indian Education
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