Land, language, and women a Cherokee and American educational history / Julie L. Reed.
| Author/creator | Reed, Julie L., 1976 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (2026) |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Kituwah: Ageyutsa -- Overhill towns: Climber of Trees -- Wills Valley: Ayohka -- Skin Bayou District: Caroline Fields -- Oklahoma Indian Schools: Rachel Johnson -- Oklahoma schools: Aincy (Nancy) Joan -- Global education: Julie. |
| Abstract | "Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools established by the US government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Native Americans taught and learned from one another long before colonization, and while white settlers and institutions powerfully influenced Indigenous educational practices, they never stopped Native people from educating one another on their own terms. In this ambitious and imaginatively conceived book, Julie L. Reed uses Cherokee teaching and learning practices spanning more than four centuries to reframe the way we think about Native American educational history. Reed draws on archaeological evidence from Southeastern US caves, ethnohistorical narratives of Cherokee syllabary development, records from Christian mission schools, Cherokee Nation archives, and family and personal histories to reveal surprising continuity amid powerful change. Centering the role of women as educators across generations in Cherokee matrilineal society, the power of land to anchor learning, and the significance of language in expressing sovereignty, Reed fundamentally rethinks the nature of educational space, the roles played by teachers and learners, and the periodization imposed by US settler colonialism onto the Indigenous experience"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025035321 |
| ISBN | 9781469684895 cloth alk. paper |
| ISBN | 9781469684901 pbk alk. paper |
| ISBN | epub |
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