Routledge Education in the Comanche Nation: Relationships, Responsibility, Redistribution and Reciprocity

This collection delivers an altogether unique perspective of research on American Indian/Alaska Native education policy and practice by creating a cultural lens, framed as tribal core values, to allow readers to rethink research on and about tribal populations. The policies that affect American Indian education often create a disconnect between an general educational hegemonic mandate of "one size fits all" and the deeply held cultural beliefs of American Indian/Alaska Native peoples. This book provides current thinking about both policies and processes that support native ways of knowing and how tribal incorporation of values support the resiliency that characterizes the United States’ first peoples. It considers a range of issues, including the relationship between Native American fathers and daughter, how Habermasian theory applies to Native American education policy and the experiences of Indian college students in predominately white institutions. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. About the Author Linda Sue Warner works at The California Indian Culture & Sovereignty Center, California State University San Marcos, USA, and is a member of the Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma, USA. She has over thirty years’ experience working with American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian peoples. Dr. Warner is extensively published with over two hundred articles, presentations, technical reports, books and book chapters that explore processes linked to cultural knowledge bases and pedagogy and leadership.