To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education; Learning to Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience and American Indian Literature; Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences

Ethnohistory ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 757-759
Author(s):  
C. S. Kidwell
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Native American Education ◽  
American Education ◽  
Indian Literature ◽  
American Indian Literature

scholarly journals "Colonizing the Mind: A Dialectic Approach to Education and Language in Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adisa Ahmetspahić
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Native American ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
School Experience ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The World ◽  
Language And Education ◽  
The Mind ◽  
American Authors

Mind colonization has been a burning issue in the last few decades in the fields of science and humanities. It is argued that mind colonization of the indigenous populations has been conducted via education and language in the mission of ‘civilizing’ since education and language carry culture specific sets of meaning, including knowledge and truth which condition our perception of the world. Zitkala-Ša is one of the earliest Native American authors and activists who sought to subvert the epistemological hierarchy imposed through mind colonization. Zitkala-Ša’s autobiographical collection of short stories titled American Indian Stories (1921) documents her boarding school experience and the acquisition of the colonizer’s education and language. The present paper seeks to address mind colonization through language and education on the example of Zitkala-Ša’s American Indian Stories relying on a number of theories and approaches. The paper also reflects on the importance of Zitkala-Ša mastery of the colonizer’s language

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