Native American Studies in Higher Education: Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations

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This collection of essays examines the decades-long struggle in higher education to build native studies from the ground up and to develop key working models for indigenous studies in American university settings. The contributors offer contextual histories of the last four decades of these programmes, describing and analyzing their evolution, administrative and financial relationships, philosophies, course development, and in general their successes and failures.

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Native American Studies in Higher Education is a must-read for anyone interested in the evolving discipline of American Indian Studies. The commentary on the organization, staffing and intellectual content of diverse American Indian Studies programs sheds enormous light on the complexity of program development and working with organizational constraints that sometimes undermine new areas of inquiry and study. This book will be an important tool for scholars in American Indian studies and those involved in building programs for years to come. -- George L. Cornell, Director, Native American Institute, Michigan State University

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Duane Champagne is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Native Nations Law and Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. Jay Stauss is Professor of Anthropology the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona.