By John J. Laukaitis
ISBN-10: 1438457685
ISBN-13: 9781438457680
ISBN-10: 1438457693
ISBN-13: 9781438457697
After international struggle II, American Indians begun moving to city components in huge numbers, looking for employment. partially inspired via the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this migration from rural reservations to metropolitan facilities provided either demanding situations and possibilities. This background examines the academic courses American Indians constructed in Chicago and provides specific cognizance to how the yank Indian group selected its personal special direction inside and outdoors of the bigger American Indian self-determination flow. In what John J. Laukaitis phrases group self-determination, American Indians in Chicago proven enormous enterprise as they built their very own courses and labored inside already existent associations. The community-based tasks integrated adolescence courses on the American Indian middle and St. Augustine’s middle for American Indians, the local American Committee’s grownup studying middle, Little tremendous Horn highschool, O-Wai-Ya-Wa common university, local American academic prone university, and the Institute for local American improvement at Truman collage. Community Self-Determination provides the 1st significant exam of those projects and courses and offers an realizing of the way schooling functioned as a kind of activism for Chicago’s American Indian community.
John J. Laukaitis is Assistant Professor of schooling at North Park University.
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Community Self-Determination: American Indian Education in Chicago, 1952-2006 (SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building) by John J. Laukaitis
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