"The Best Possible Education": Federal Indian Educational Policy in the Public Schools, 1969-1980

dc.contributor.advisorWeisiger, Marshaen_US
dc.contributor.authorGunyon, Richarden_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-03T23:34:53Z
dc.date.available2013-10-03T23:34:53Z
dc.date.issued2013-10-03
dc.description.abstractThe scholarship regarding the education of American Indians has focused primarily on the trials and atrocities of the period between 1870 and 1930. This thesis expands this analysis and explores the shifts in Indian educational policy that occurred in the mid to late twentieth century. Whereas federally controlled institutions had served as the primary means of educating Indian students prior to the 1930s, between the 1940s and 1960s, the federal government began shifting Indian children into state-controlled public schools. Unbeknownst to federal policymakers, this shift effectively limited federal control of Indian education by putting this control largely in the hands of local white communities whose goals for Indian education often differed greatly from those of the federal government. This limiting of federal power was most clearly demonstrated in the 1970s, when federal policymakers attempted to create a policy of self-determination for Indian education that was applied in only a limited fashion by state public schools.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/13293
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectEducation policyen_US
dc.subjectIndianen_US
dc.subjectIndian educationen_US
dc.title"The Best Possible Education": Federal Indian Educational Policy in the Public Schools, 1969-1980en_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Historyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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