Protecting the Promise: Indigenous Education Between Mothers and Their Children

ISBN-13: 9780807765012 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 214 str.

Timothy San Pedro; Megan Bang; Django Paris

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• Contents
• Series Foreword Django Paris xi
• Foreword Megan Bang xiii
• Acknowledgments xv
• Prologue xix
• Introduction 1
• Co-Developed From the Beginning: Self-in-Relation 3
• Resurgence in the Everyday 7
• Refusing the "Me": Toward the Implications of "We" 8
• An Unfulfilled Promise: Formal Schooling in Indigenous Communities 10
• Combating "Deficit Distractions" 12
• Listening to Connect as a Story Supporter: Methods 16
• Questions to Consider 18
• 1. Michael and Mali 21
• Michael Munson and Timothy San Pedro
• History of Homelands 22
• Introducing Michael and Mali 23
• Songs From the Spirits 24
• Wiping Tears Away 25
• At Home: In Community 26
• Identity Detours 26
• Head Start to Where? 28
• Head Start to Love 31
• Nk̓ʷusm Salish Language School 32
• Stepping Up by Stepping In 34
• Protecting the Seams 35
• 2. Alayna, Kyyalyn, and Waaruxti 39
• Alayna Eagle Shield and Timothy San Pedro
• Introducing Alayna 41
• #NoDAPL 41
• Introducing Waaruxti 43
• Introducing Kyyalyn 45
• Coming Together as One Family 46
• Living Language Together 48
• Language Post-Its 49
• White Buffalo Calf Woman 51
• Waaruxti and School 52
• Standing Up 54
• Singing Prayer 55
• Sharing Lakȟóta 56
• Spirit Dish 57
• Language and Tribal Knowledge Intertwined 57
• 3. Tara and Scyla 61
• Tara Ramos, Scyla Dowd, and Timothy San Pedro
• Scyla Raised Her Hand 62
• Introducing Scyla 63
• Introducing Tara 65
• Tara and Scyla's Relationship 67
• Going "Home" 68
• The Dangers of a Model Minority 73
• Advocating for Equity 75
• Decolonizing vs. Indigenizing 75
• Advocating for Indigenous Peoples' Day 77
• Refusing Indigenous Peoples' Day 79
• 4. Kristina and Demetrius 85
• Kristina Lucero, Demetrius Lucero, and Timothy San Pedro
• Introducing Kristina 85
• Introducing Demetrius 88
• "Can I Help You?" 90
• "They're So Native" 91
• Enduring Lacrosse 92
• Forcing Special Ed 96
• Demetrius and Schooling 97
• In the In-Between 99
• "I Do It to Get Through School" 103
• Thanksgiving Dinner Talk: Learning With Grandma 105
• 5. Faith and Daliyah 113
• Faith Price, Daliyah Killsback, and Timothy San Pedro
• Phone Call Reflection 113
• Introducing Daliyah 116
• Introducing Faith 117
• Pendleton Pillows 118
• Required Freshman Humanities Course 119
• Back to School 123
• First Native Instructor 124
• "There Are an Infinite Possibility of Ways to Be Indigenous" 126
• School Talk: Rants/Lectures 127
• A Place to Be Native 129
• Changing the Humanities Course: Blah, Blah, Blah Pedagogy 132
• Presentation of Gifts 135
• Conclusion: Montana Gathering 137
• Epilogue: Questions to Connect Forward 157
• Purposes of the Epilogue 159
• Lesson Ideas: Carrying Stories to New Places 161
• Questions Forward 163
• Chapter 1: Michael and Mali 165
• Chapter 2: Alayna, Kyyalyn, and Waaruxti 169
• Chapter 3: Tara and Scyla 173
• Chapter 4: Kristina and Demetrius 178
• Chapter 5: Faith and Daliyah 183
• Appendix: A Note on Terms 191
• Notes 195
• References 197
• Index 204
• About the Author 214