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MEDIA INDIGENA 185

Added 2019-11-18 21:46:10 +0000 UTC

On this week’s Indigenous roundtable: class dismissed—or should we say class denied? A North Carolina advisory board has rejected a proposed Native charter school on the grounds its curriculum would be too radical. Of course, that’s all in the eyes of the beholder, but with funding all in the hands of the state, could this be a textbook case of education discrimination? And nearly a half century after the 1970s rallying cry “Indian Control of Indian Education,” how close is anyone to realizing that vision?

Joining host/producer Rick Harp on the roundtable this week are Ken Williams, an assistant professor with the department of drama at the University of Alberta, and U of A associate professor of Native Studies Kim TallBear.

OTHER LINKS CONSULTED / REFERENCED THIS EPISODE:

"Educator Grande wants to rethink U.S. democracy in accounting for treatment of Native Americans": Cornell Chronicle
“First Nations Schools Are Chronically Underfunded”: CBC Docs
"Information Sheet 2: First Nations Education": First Nations Child & Family Caring Society
“Cherokee Nation is well justified in pushing school districts to allow reasonable cultural expressions by tribal students" [Editorial]: Tulsa World
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese (who just did an AMA on Reddit!)