A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling

by Teresa L. McCarty

Book Overview

A Place To Be Navajo is the only book-length ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Called Din eacute; Bi' oacute;lta', The People's School, in recognition of its status as the first American Indian community-controlled school, Rough Rock was the first to teach in the Native language and to produce a body of quality children's literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805837612
• ISBN13: 9780805837612
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"