{"product_id":"sovereign-schools-martha-louise-hipp-9781496208859","title":"Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation","description":"\u003ci\u003eSovereign Schools\u003c\/i\u003e tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off-reservation public schools. Martha Louise Hipp describes the successful fight through sustained Native community activism for public school sovereignty during the late 1960s and 1970s on the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes' Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Parents and students at Wind River experienced sustained educational discrimination in their school districts, particularly at the high schools located in towns bordering the reservation, not least when these public schools failed to incorporate history and culture of the Shoshones and Arapahos into the curriculum. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Focusing on one of the most significant issues of indigenous activism of the era, \u003ci\u003eSovereign Schools\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how Eastern Shoshones and Northern Arapahos asserted tribal sovereignty in the face of immense local, state, and federal government pressure, even from the Nixon administration itself, which sent mixed signals to reservations by promoting indigenous \"self-determination\" while simultaneously impounding federal education funds for Native peoples. With support from the Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards and the Episcopal Church, the Wind River peoples overcame federal and local entities to reclaim their reservation schools and educational sovereignty. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martha Louise Hipp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496208854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496208859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 8.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Martha Louise Hipp","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43985877106943,"sku":"9781496208859","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f08b4ac8-9a5e-463e-add7-5e1b7dba238d.jpg?v=1683280069","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sovereign-schools-martha-louise-hipp-9781496208859","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}