Abstract:Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the ar... more Abstract:Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the architect of the U.S. assimilationist campaign of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous for the slogan “kill the Indian, save the man.” We question the degree he is credited with building a federal bureaucracy that he bitterly criticized. We examine the historical record to illuminate how and why Pratt broke with racialized ideologies of his day; how Carlisle was both a model for other off-reservation boarding schools and a distinctive institution; and the complex nature of Pratt's relationships with Native people as adversaries, allies, and close friends. Our goal is to present a more fully three-dimensional portrait of Pratt than the overly simplistic image conjured by the phrase “kill the Indian, save the man.”
This commentary on Bryan Brayboy's 2011 Presidential address to the Council on Anthropology &... more This commentary on Bryan Brayboy's 2011 Presidential address to the Council on Anthropology & Education focuses on the concepts and performance embedded in Dr. Brayboy's demonstration of “how his stories are his theories.” Central concepts are academic life in a neoliberal world driven by the myth of disinterested markets, CAE's clear mission of social justice, and the application of an indigenous notion of stewardship to guide our relationships and responsibilities to one another.
American Indian/Alaska Native education – the training for life of children, adolescents, and adu... more American Indian/Alaska Native education – the training for life of children, adolescents, and adults – has been locked in battle for centuries with colonial schooling, which continues to the present day. Settler societies have used schools to “civilize” Indigenous peoples and to train Native peoples in subservience while dispossessing them of land. Schools are the battlegrounds of American Indian education in which epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, pedagogies, and curricula clash. In the last century, Native nations, communities, parents, and students have fought tenaciously to maintain heritage languages and cultures – their ways of being in the world – through Indigenous education and have demanded radical changes in schools. Contemporary models of how educators are braiding together Indigenous education and Indigenous schooling to better serve Native peoples provide dynamic, productive possibilities for the future.
Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote "The" "Handbook of Federal Indian La... more Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote "The" "Handbook of Federal Indian Law" (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who, as DOI assistant solicitor, wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commission Act (1946), has received less attention. Even more neglected was the contribution that Cohen s wife, Lucy Kramer Cohen, an anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, made to the process. Kehoe argues that, due to anti-Semitism in 1930s America, Cohen could not speak for his legislation before Congress, and that Collier, an upper-class WASP, became the spokesman as well as the administrator. According to the author, historians of the Indian New Deal have not given due weight to Cohen s work, nor have they recognized its foundation in his liberal secular Jewish culture. Both Felix and Lucy Cohen shared a belief in the moral duty of "mitzvah," creating a commitment to the true and the just that was rooted in their Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and their Social Democrat principles. "A Passion for the True and Just" takes a fresh look at the Indian New Deal and the radical reversal of US Indian policies it caused, moving from ethnocide to retention of Indian homelands. Shifting attention to the Jewish tradition of moral obligation that served as a foundation for Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen (and her professor Franz Boas), the book discusses Cohen s landmark contributions to the principle of sovereignty that so significantly influenced American legal philosophy."
Page 1. Editors' Introduction Indigenous Epistemologies and EducationSelf-Determination, An... more Page 1. Editors' Introduction Indigenous Epistemologies and EducationSelf-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights With this theme issue, AEQ continues a line of inquiry that in many ways distin-guishes anthropology ...
Abstract:Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the ar... more Abstract:Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the architect of the U.S. assimilationist campaign of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous for the slogan “kill the Indian, save the man.” We question the degree he is credited with building a federal bureaucracy that he bitterly criticized. We examine the historical record to illuminate how and why Pratt broke with racialized ideologies of his day; how Carlisle was both a model for other off-reservation boarding schools and a distinctive institution; and the complex nature of Pratt's relationships with Native people as adversaries, allies, and close friends. Our goal is to present a more fully three-dimensional portrait of Pratt than the overly simplistic image conjured by the phrase “kill the Indian, save the man.”
This commentary on Bryan Brayboy's 2011 Presidential address to the Council on Anthropology &... more This commentary on Bryan Brayboy's 2011 Presidential address to the Council on Anthropology & Education focuses on the concepts and performance embedded in Dr. Brayboy's demonstration of “how his stories are his theories.” Central concepts are academic life in a neoliberal world driven by the myth of disinterested markets, CAE's clear mission of social justice, and the application of an indigenous notion of stewardship to guide our relationships and responsibilities to one another.
American Indian/Alaska Native education – the training for life of children, adolescents, and adu... more American Indian/Alaska Native education – the training for life of children, adolescents, and adults – has been locked in battle for centuries with colonial schooling, which continues to the present day. Settler societies have used schools to “civilize” Indigenous peoples and to train Native peoples in subservience while dispossessing them of land. Schools are the battlegrounds of American Indian education in which epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, pedagogies, and curricula clash. In the last century, Native nations, communities, parents, and students have fought tenaciously to maintain heritage languages and cultures – their ways of being in the world – through Indigenous education and have demanded radical changes in schools. Contemporary models of how educators are braiding together Indigenous education and Indigenous schooling to better serve Native peoples provide dynamic, productive possibilities for the future.
Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote "The" "Handbook of Federal Indian La... more Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote "The" "Handbook of Federal Indian Law" (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt s New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who, as DOI assistant solicitor, wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commission Act (1946), has received less attention. Even more neglected was the contribution that Cohen s wife, Lucy Kramer Cohen, an anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, made to the process. Kehoe argues that, due to anti-Semitism in 1930s America, Cohen could not speak for his legislation before Congress, and that Collier, an upper-class WASP, became the spokesman as well as the administrator. According to the author, historians of the Indian New Deal have not given due weight to Cohen s work, nor have they recognized its foundation in his liberal secular Jewish culture. Both Felix and Lucy Cohen shared a belief in the moral duty of "mitzvah," creating a commitment to the true and the just that was rooted in their Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and their Social Democrat principles. "A Passion for the True and Just" takes a fresh look at the Indian New Deal and the radical reversal of US Indian policies it caused, moving from ethnocide to retention of Indian homelands. Shifting attention to the Jewish tradition of moral obligation that served as a foundation for Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen (and her professor Franz Boas), the book discusses Cohen s landmark contributions to the principle of sovereignty that so significantly influenced American legal philosophy."
Page 1. Editors' Introduction Indigenous Epistemologies and EducationSelf-Determination, An... more Page 1. Editors' Introduction Indigenous Epistemologies and EducationSelf-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights With this theme issue, AEQ continues a line of inquiry that in many ways distin-guishes anthropology ...
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