Chapter Seven

1. Chapter Seven Diversity and Equity: Schooling and American Indians

2. Pluralism Valuing and maintaining cultural differences within a society. Assimilation The process by which diverse cultures and their customs, habits and languages are absorbed into the dominant culture. Pluralism vs. Assimilation

3. Indians and whites in uneasy coexistence Federal government as trustee of Indian rights Economic value of partnership with Indians declines as nineteenth century progresses Values of whites and Indians increasingly conflict Indians as obstacles to “manifest destiny” “Trust Relationship”

4. Land allotment and boarding schools meant to directly force Indians into assimilation through transfer of law and removal for schooling Scientific management and education reform Merriam Report of 1928 documents failure of assimilation attempts and recommends progressive education incorporating Indian culture and values The Social Education of Native Americans

5. John Collier’s influence developed “cross-culture” approach to counter Indian resistance Willard Walcott Beatty emphasized need for Indians to accept their “role” as laborers school as main vehicle of assimilation The Social Education of Native Americans

6. Ongoing tensions between liberal democratic ideology and Native American perspectives What is the role of the dominant culture today in terms of responsibility to Native Americans? Concluding Remarks

7. assimilation boarding school Bureau of Ethnology Bureau of Indian Affairs Cherokee Nation v. Georgia John Collier community control cultural pluralism Dawes Allotment Act dominant culture Merriam Report scientific administration tribal self-determination Willard Walcott Beatty Worcester v. Georgia Developing your Professional Vocabulary