Scholarly Work - Indigenous Research Initiative
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Item A preliminary investigation into the current status of Indian education in Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1971) Watts, Shirley JeanItem A preliminary study of some attitudes toward cultural and educational conflicts of Indian children in Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1970) Visscher, Sietwende Hermberg; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Elnora A. Old CoyoteItem The significance of home life on dropout rates of secondary school Indian students(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1972) Bak, Roger AxelItem A study of parental attitudes toward public education on the Crow reservation(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1978) Holden, Kenneth WarrenStudies parental attitudes toward public education in Crow Agency, Wyola, Lodge Grass, and Pryor. Conclusions offer suggestions how to make a school a true expression of the Indian community's hopes and needs. This could help minimize culture conflicts. Local control of schools would also add immeasurably to Indian self-respect.Item Developing an Alaska studies resource library : a pilot project designed to enhance future native leadership in rural Alaska(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1987) Crangle, Charles Linter; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Richard L. HainesItem Factors affecting the education of Montana Indians(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1968) Barnett, James FranklinItem A review of the literature in Indian education(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1969) Trang, Sharon BeecklerItem Observations of family disorganization as it relates to an Indian community(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1969) Sommars, Vesta M.Item Piety, politics, and profit : American Indian missions in the colonial colleges(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1985) Wright, BobbyThe royal charters which sanctioned the settlement of the American colonies invariably expressed as their primary purpose the propagation of Christianity among the American Indians. Throughout the colonial period, the English viewed education as a primary means to accomplish this pious mission. The purpose of this study was to examine critically the educational Indian missions in the colonial colleges. In doing so, this investigation employed ethnohistorical perspectives and methodology in examining the institutional experiments at Henrico, Virginia, Harvard College, the College of William and Mary, and Dartmouth College, spanning a period from the early seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries. The study found that, while the colonial educators professed their own piety as if this were their singular motivation, they capitalized on the charitable impulses of the pious English and on the opportunities which the charity presented in furthering other political and economic interests. This investigation also established that mixed motives led to diversions from the purposes for which money had been collected and further that this was a primary cause of the ultimate failure of these/ educational experiments. In revealing that missions in the colonial colleges were not expressions of unblemished piety, this study has confronted the declarations espoused in the early records and much of the later historical literature, thus enhancing the growing body of ethnohistorical scholarship on Indian-white relations during the colonial period, while simultaneously offering a fresh insight into the origins of higher education in America.