¹ In this article we use “Indigenous” and “Native” interchangeably to refer to groups of people. Tribally-specific names are used when referencing particular people and nations. The term “Indian education” references federal offices and policies designed to implement schooling “for” Indigenous people rather than “by” Indigenous people. See Lomawaima, K. Tsianina, “American Indian Education: by Indians versus for Indians,” in A Companion to American Indian History, ed. Deloria, Philip J. and Salisbury, Neal (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), 422–40Google Scholar; and Lawrence, Adrea, Kroupa, KuuNUx TeeRIt, and Warren, Donald, “Introduction,” History of Education Quarterly 54, no. 3 (Aug. 2014), 253–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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⁸ Raphael Wilkins, “Is Schooling a Technology, a Process of Socialisation, or a Consumer Product?,” Management in Education 19, no. 1, (Feb. 2005), 25–31.

⁹ Jaskiran Dhillon frames mission and residential schools as “technologies of colonial rule.” Dhillon, Jaskiran K., Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), 93Google Scholar.

¹⁰ Indeed, Osage scholar Jean Dennison argues that “American Indian nations have long understood the colonial process as at once devastating and full of potential. Dennison, Jean, Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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¹⁴ K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Teresa L. McCarty, “Revisiting and Clarifying the Safety Zone,” Journal of American Indian Education 53, no. 3 (Jan. 2014), 64.

¹⁵ Lomawaima and McCarty, “Revisiting and Clarifying the Safety Zone,” 64,66.

¹⁶ “Constitution of the Cherokee Nation [Sept. 6, 1839],” in The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation: Passed at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1839–51 (Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, 1852), 5–15, https://www.loc.gov/law/help/american-indian-consts/PDF/28014182.pdf.

¹⁷ Reed, Julie L., “Family and Nation: Cherokee Orphan Care, 1835–1903,” American Indian Quarterly 34, no. 3 (July 2010), 312–43Google ScholarPubMed. The Cherokee Nation was not alone in this effort, nor were they the first, as other displaced nations also set up schools to prepare their students for a changing social landscape. Cobb, Amanda J., Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852–1949 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007), 40Google Scholar; Snyder, Christina, Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)Google Scholar; Peterson, Dawn, Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), 234–71CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Rowan Faye Steineker, “‘Fully Equal to That of Any Children’: Experimental Creek Education in the Antebellum Era,” History of Education Quarterly 56, no. 2 (May 2016), 273–300.

¹⁸ Snyder, Great Crossings.

¹⁹ “An Act Relative to Schools [Sept. 26, 1839],” in The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation, 30–31.

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²² William P. Ross, “Public Education among the Cherokee Indians,” American Journal of Education 1 (Aug. 1855), 121.

²³ “An Act Authorizing the Appointment of an Examining Board [Nov. 2, 1849],” in The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation, 195.

²⁴ “An Act Further to Amend an Act Relative to Public Schools”; and Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 28Google Scholar. For comparison, the salary of the principal chief of the Nation was set at $500.

²⁵ Ross, “Public Education among the Cherokee Indians,” 121. Recognizing the needs of their students, teachers in local schools taught in both Cherokee and English at times, although this bilingualism was not codified as formal policy. For a discussion of the social dynamics around teaching in Cherokee and English, see Reed, “Family and Nation,” 323–24; and Reed, Julie L., Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 83Google Scholar.

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²⁹ Ross, “Public Education among the Cherokee Indians,” 121; and Mihesuah, Cultivating the Rosebuds, 33–34.

³⁰ Even as the schools were tools to reconstitute the Cherokee Nation after Removal, they were also elitist institutions that reified social boundaries of access and privilege. Students bullied and excluded one another on the basis of perceived race and class. As Natalie Panther notes: “The tribe wanted well-educated Cherokees who could defend tribal sovereignty and not blend into the American mainstream. On the other hand, the Male Seminary pushed an agenda of assimilation and glorified the privilege and power held by those Cherokees who adapted to the White world. These dual goals of the Male Seminary, combined with the diverse student body, resulted in paradoxical and complex assessments of the school.” See Natalie Panther, “‘To Make Us Independent’: The Education of Young Men at the Cherokee Male Seminary, 1851–1910,” (PhD diss., Oklahoma State University, 2013), 4.

³¹ “An Act Making Further Provisions for Carrying into Effect the Act of the Last Annual Session of the National Council, for the Establishment of One Male and One Female Seminary or High School [Nov. 12, 1847],” in The Constitution and Laws of the Cherokee Nation, 157–162. The complicated history of the Cherokee Female Seminary has been best documented by Mihesuah in Cultivating the Rosebuds.

³² Panther, “‘To Make Us Independent,’” 71.

³³ Abbott, “‘Commendable Progress’: Acculturation at the Cherokee Female Seminary,” 194.

³⁴ Mihesuah, Cultivating the Rosebuds, 22; Muriel H. Wright, “Wapanucka Academy, Chickasaw Nation,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 12, no. 4 (Dec. 1934), 402–31; Cobb, Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories; and Snyder, Great Crossings.

³⁵ The Cherokee Nation sold the Female Seminary building to the new state of Oklahoma in 1909, when the school became the Northeastern State Normal School. The Cherokee Male Seminary became a co-ed high school. See Mihesuah, Cultivating the Rosebuds, 1. For a deeper discussion of the impact of the Curtis Act on the Cherokee Nation, see Reed, “Family and Nation,” 336.

³⁶ Mihesuah, Cultivating the Rosebuds, 63–64.

³⁷ Lomawaima and McCarty, To Remain an Indian, 173n.

³⁸ Davis, “Public Education among the Cherokee Indians,” 173.

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⁴⁷ “Sarah Winnemucca's School.”

⁴⁸ “Sarah Winnemucca's School.”

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⁵⁰ Lisa Tetzloff, “Elizabeth Bender Cloud: ‘Working for and with Our Indian People,’” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 30, no. 3 (Sept. 2009), 89.

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⁵⁷ Tetzloff, “Elizabeth Bender Cloud,” 89.

⁵⁸ Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power, 99, 109.

⁵⁹ The Clouds imagined that their school would be a co-educational enterprise. Ramirez notes that her mother, Woesha, remembers that both Henry and Elizabeth lobbied their patrons hard to allow women to attend the school, and made plans to do so, but were ultimately denied. Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power, 99–101.

⁶⁰ “Indians Trained for Leadership,” Christian Science Monitor, Nov. 26, 1927, 14.

⁶¹ Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power, 100.

⁶² Tetzloff, “Elizabeth Bender Cloud,” 90.

⁶³ Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power, 107–108.

⁶⁴ Tetzloff, “Elizabeth Bender Cloud,” 91.

⁶⁵ Ramirez, Standing Up to Colonial Power, 116.

⁶⁶ Ramirez, Standing UP to Colonial Power, 104.

⁶⁷ Wollock, “Protagonism Emergent,” 4.

⁶⁸ “Indians Trained for Leadership.”

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⁷⁰ We extrapolate this estimation from the Annual Reports to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs from this period.

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⁷³ Between 1884 and 1909, fifty-one Indigenous teachers were listed as former pupils or students, though the actual number is surely greater due to inconsistent record-keeping. Volumes 1–22; Roster of School Employees, 1884–1909; Office of Indian Affairs Accounts Division; Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives Building, Washington DC.

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⁸⁹ Davis, Survival Schools, 125.

⁹⁰ White, Free to Be Mohawk, 64–69.

⁹¹ Alayna Eagle Shield et al., eds., Education in Movement Spaces: Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square (New York: Routledge, 2020).

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⁹⁴ McCarty, A Place to Be Navajo, 56–57.

⁹⁵ Thompson, The Navajos’ Long Walk, 227.

⁹⁶ Lomawaima and McCarty, To Remain an Indian, 122–26; Szasz, Education and the American Indian, 172; and Reyhner and Eder, American Indian Education, 273–82.

⁹⁷ McCarty, A Place to Be Navajo, xvi. For a robust explanation of criticisms of Rough Rock, see Reyhner and Eder, American Indian Education, 282–89.

⁹⁸ “Navajo Culture Program,” Akwesasne Notes 2, no. 3 (June 1970), 42.

⁹⁹ Even as some Diné felt that a tribal college in the style of non-Native schools was not in alignment with Diné values, a group of tribal leaders, local educators, and federal officials saw the potential for reshaping the technology of higher education to prioritize local vision and needs. See Stan Steiner, “Student Activists: The Navajo Way,” Akwesasne Notes 1, no. 9 (Oct. 1969), 12–13.

¹⁰⁰ For the earliest tribally controlled colleges, conversations about the need for locally controlled higher education began as early as the 1950s and were taken up over time by tribal governments.

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¹⁰⁴ Paula Dranov, “Navajo College to Rise: Construction Program to Get Under Way Next Month,” Akwesasne Notes 3, no. 3 (April 1971), 21.

¹⁰⁵ Szasz, Education and the American Indian, 236; Carney, Native American Higher Education in the United States, 109; and Boyer, Capturing Education, 70. Diné College also acquired funds from private foundations. See Szasz, Education and the American Indian, 167.

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¹⁰⁸ “About DC,” Diné College, 2019, https://www.dinecollege.edu/about_dc/about-dc/.

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¹¹³ Rawlins, Wilson, and Kawai‘ae‘a, “Bill Demmert,” 75; and William H. Wilson and Kauanoe Kamanā, “‘Mai Loko Mai O Ka ‘I‘ini: Proceeding from a Dream’: The ‘Aha Pūnana Leo Connection in Hawaiian Language Revitalization,” in Hinton and Hale, The Green Book, 149.

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¹¹⁹ Wilson and Kamanā, “Indigenous Youth Bilingualism,” 372.

¹²⁰ Warner, “The Movement to Revitalize,” 141.

¹²¹ Office of Hawaiian Affairs, “OHA Board Approves $3 Million to Go Directly to Charter Schools,” press release, Oct. 19, 2017, https://www.oha.org/news/oha-board-approves-3-million-go-directly-charter-schools/; and Warner, “The Movement to Revitalize,” 138.

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¹²⁵ “Language Revitalization Featured at Education Conference.”

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¹²⁷ Wilson and Kamanā, “Mai Loko Mai O Ka ‘I‘ini,” 158.

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¹³⁶ NPR, “Oklahoma Charter School Opens.”

¹³⁷ Ewing and Ferrick, “For This Place, for These People,” 63.

¹³⁸ Marshall, “To Sustain Tribal Nations,” 28.

¹³⁹ NIEA, “Choice Innovation in Native Education.”

¹⁴⁰ Marshall, “To Sustain Tribal Nations,” 32; and Ewing and Ferrick, “For This Place, for These People,” 70. In addition, some Native educators worry that a larger discourse regarding charter schools outside of Indian Country may conflict with the community-centered model of Native charter schools. For example, some charter networks frame school as a ticket out of their neighborhoods rather than a means of contributing to their communities. See Marshall, “To Sustain Tribal Nations,” 30–31.

¹⁴¹ Eve Tuck, “Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities,” Harvard Educational Review 79, no. 3 (Sept. 2009), 416.

¹⁴² Philip J. Deloria et al., “Unfolding Futures: Indigenous Ways of Knowing for the Twenty-First Century,” Daedalus 147, no. 2 (Spring 2018), 12.

¹⁴³ Brayboy, Bryan McKinley Jones, “Culture, Place, and Power: Engaging the Histories and Possibilities of American Indian Education,” History of Education Quarterly 54, no. 3 (Aug. 2014), 395–402CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Lomawaima, K. Tsianina, “Tribal Sovereigns: Reframing Research in American Indian Education,” Harvard Educational Review 70, no. 1 (April 2000), 1–21CrossRefGoogle Scholar.