Books on American Indian Education

Julie Davis. Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

K. Tsianina Lomawaima and Teresa L. McCarty. To Remain an Indian: Lessons in Democracy from a Century of Native American Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 2006.

Richard Henry Pratt. Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1867-1904. Edited by Robert M. Utley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964.
**Note: This book was written by the architect of the off reservation boarding school system and is an important primary source document. However, it also reflects Pratt’s many negative and racist views about Native peoples that were common during the late nineteenth century.

Jon Reyhner and Jeanne Eder. American Indian Education: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

Margaret Connell Szasz. Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination Since 1928. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.

Hildegard Thompson. The Navajo’s Long Walk for Education: A History of Navajo Education. Tsaile: Navajo Community College Press, 1975.
**Note: This book was written by a federal official who played an integral role in developing the Special Five Year Navajo Program in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains virtually no actual Navajo representation, however, and is written purely from the views non-Native federal officials.

Clifford Trafzer, Jean A. Keller and Lorene Sisquoc. Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006