Native American Bilingual Education: An Ethnography of Powerful Forces

For over thirty years, a political and social battle over bilingual education raged in the U.S. and in and around the Crow Indian Reservation of Montana. This book, a period piece rich in political, historical, and local western context, is the story of language, education, inequality and power clashes between the dominant society and the Indian tribe as historical events unfolded.

This is a classic ethnography that documents eight years of the author’s day—to—day experience as a teacher, b...