| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.3

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Book Review

American Indian Education: A History. By John Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. x + 370 pp. Illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

A major expansion of A History of American Indian Education (Billings, MT, 1989) by the same authors, this volume is a valuable survey encompassing four centuries of educational confrontations. Historian Margaret Connell Szasz's excellent studies of colonial and twentieth century Indian education (1988, 1999) jump most of the nineteenth century, so we certainly needed such a study. Reyhner, a professor of education at Northern Arizona University who has worked with the Navajo and other Indian peoples, and Eder, associate professor of history and director of the Alaska Native Studies Program at the University of Alaska, have both published on education and Indian issues. Here they critically examine Euro-American attempts to culturally assimilate Indians through schooling (elementary, secondary, and higher levels), and the authors simultaneously chronicle Native resistance and cooperation. In addition, Reyhner and Eder have a pedagogical agenda: today's educators and policy makers "must know about the past failures and successes of Indian education" (p. 12).

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