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On Our Own Terms sets recent federal education legislation against the backdrop of two hundred years of education funding and policy to explore two critical themes: the racial and settler colonial dynamics that have shaped Indian education and an equally long Indigenous tradition of engaging schools, funding, and policy on their own terms.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Witnessing Indigenous Future-Building in Archives of Survivance
1. Toward Indigenous Futures in Mission and Boarding Schools
2. Settler Policy and Indigenous Resistance in Public Schools
3. Behind the Funding Promise of Self-Determination
4. Consultation, Classroom Content, and Government Relations under ESSA
Conclusion: Building Indigenous Futures
Appendix 1: Anticipated Federal Appropriations and Outlays Based on Inflation
Appendix 2: Data Sources for Discourse Tracing
Appendix 3: Structured Questions for Discourse Tracing
Appendix 4: Indian Education Funds over Time
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Meredith L. McCoy (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe descent) is an assistant professor of American studies and history at Carleton College.
