Tribal Colleges
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Choice: American Indian Culture
- Categories: Social Science
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Tribal colleges were founded and chartered by American Indian tribes to ensure that their members receive culturally relevant and sensitive education
Though appearing under many guises, a consistent aim of nearly all of the first two centuries of United States Indian policy was the assimilation of America’s native peoples into the national mainstream. From the late eighteenth century through the first third of the twentieth century, the federal government sought to achieve this goal through educational curricula and institutions that were...
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