Description
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education. Volume 2 is concerned with the wide-ranging changes that have taken place since 1972. Jean Barman (editor) is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia History Project. Yvonne Hebert (editor) is a professor of education at the University of Calgary. Don McCaskill (editor) is a professor in the Indigenous Studies Department at Trent University. Essays include Diane Hill's First Nations Control of Education: The Path to our Survival as Nations; Mi'kmaq Linguistic Integrity: A Case Study of Mi'kmawey School by Marie Battiste; My Elders Tell Me by Beatrice Medicine; and The Education of Urban Native Children: The Sacred Circle Project by Vernon Douglas.