A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body

A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign BodyA History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body unravels the tangle of federal and state education programs that have been imposed on Navajo people and illuminates the ongoing efforts by tribal communities to transfer state authority over Din education to the Navajo Nation. On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Din Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo

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