A Place To Be Navajo is the only book-length ethnographic account of a revolutionary Indigenous self-determination movement that began in 1966 with the Rough Rock Demonstration School. Called Diné Bi’ólta’, The People’s School, in recognition of its status as the first American Indian community-controlled school, Rough Rock was the first to teach in the Native language and to produce a body of quality children’s literature by and about Navajo people. These innovat… More >>
A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling
Tags: children, Indigenous, Navajo, Place, quality, Rock, Rough, school, schooling, SelfDetermination, Struggle, teach