Power and Place: Indian Education in America [Paperback]

Power and Place examines the issues facing Native American students as they progress through schools, colleges, and on into professions. This collection of sixteen essays is at once philosophic, practical, and visionary. It is an effort to open discussion about the unique experience of Native Americans and offers a concise reference for administrators, educators, students and community leaders involved with Indian Education.

Vine Deloria Jr., is a leading Native American scholar whose research writings, and teaching have encompassed history, law, religious studies, and political science. He is the former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Named byTimemagazine as one of the eleven greatest religious thinkers of the twentieth century, he is the author of numerous acclaimed books, includingGod is Red, Custer Died for Your Sins, Power and Place,andRed Earth, White Lies. Mr. Deloria lives in Golden, Colorado.

Daniel R. Wildcat(Yuchi, Muscogee) is the director of the American Indian studies program and the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. He is the coauthor with Vine Deloria Jr. ofPower and Place: Indian Education in America.