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Lane, John M. – 1982
During the late 1960's people of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation (a South Dakota area the size of Connecticut characterized by poverty, poor soil, aridity, and geographical isolation) began to consider establishment of an institution of higher education on the reservation. A consensus soon developed that a tribally-controlled community…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Community Colleges, Community Control
Dorris, Michael A.
The Native Studies curriculum has an important role to play in the development of meaningful community control for Native American education. Native Studies may legitimately take many forms and employ many methods; the essential element is that educators adopt a clear and consistent attitude toward Native Studies based on respect for Native people…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Studies, American Indians
