Research Catalog

Title

Sovereign schools : how Shoshones and Arapahos created a high school on the Wind River Reservation / Martha Louise Hipp.

Author

Hipp, Martha Louise

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xv, 271 pages : map, illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off-reservation public schools. Martha Louise Hipp describes the successful fight through sustained Native community activism for public school sovereignty during the late 1960s and 1970s on the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes' Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Parents and students at Wind River experienced sustained educational discrimination in their school districts, particularly at the high schools located in towns bordering the reservation, not least when these public schools failed to incorporate history and culture of the Shoshones and Arapahos into the curriculum. Focusing on one of the most significant issues of indigenous activism of the era, Sovereign Schools tells the story of how Eastern Shoshones and Northern Arapahos asserted tribal sovereignty in the face of immense local, state, and federal government pressure, even from the Nixon administration itself, which sent mixed signals to reservations by promoting indigenous "self-determination" while simultaneously impounding federal education funds for Native peoples. With support from the Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards and the Episcopal Church, the Wind River peoples overcame federal and local entities to reclaim their reservation schools and educational sovereignty."--Dust jacket.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.)
• Wyoming > Wind River Indian Reservation
• Arapaho Indians > Education (Secondary) > Wyoming > Wind River Indian Reservation > History
• Wyoming Indian High School
• Shoshoni Indians > Education (Secondary) > Wyoming > Wind River Indian Reservation > History
• History
• Wyoming Indian High School History > 20th century

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-262) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Precursors : massacres, "agreements", boarding schools, and strategies for survival -- Self-determination : a twentieth-century use for the schools -- Why the Wind River People wanted a school : late 1960s -- False promises : mid-1971 -- The non-Indian fight over Indian resources : fluid minerals and hard feelings, 1969-72 -- Reservation organizations oppose the school : early 1970s -- Indian School opens : 1971-72 -- Indian people speak, face retaliation : 1972-73 -- Fights in the Wyoming and federal courts : 1973-75 -- Control of their destiny : 1975-80s -- As seen from the Sun Dance grounds : a public school -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 19-6705

ISBN

• 9781496208859
• 1496208854

LCCN

2018025843

OCLC

1065362292

Author

Hipp, Martha Louise, author.

Title

Sovereign schools : how Shoshones and Arapahos created a high school on the Wind River Reservation / Martha Louise Hipp.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-262) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6705