Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Hopi ResistanceChapter 2. Policies and AssimilationChapter 3. The Orayvi Split and Hopi SchoolingChapter 4. Elder in ResidenceChapter 5. Taking Hopi Knowledge to SchoolChapter 6. Learning to PreachChapter 7. Returning to HopiConclusionAppendixNotesBibliography

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A masterful account of the Hopi schoolchildren at the Sherman Institute who used the United States' boarding school system, which was designed to strip them of their tribal identity, to actually strengthen and maintain their ties to their families, tribe, and land

About the Author

Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert is an assistant professor of American Indian studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His articles have appeared in American Quarterly, Journal of American Indian Education, and in edited volumes.