Without Destroying Ourselves by John A. Goodwin - 9781496244994

Without Destroying OurselvesA Century of Native Intellectual Activism for Higher Education\nAuthor(s): John A. Goodwin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496244994, 978-1496244994\nSynopsis\nWithout Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Clouds (Ho-Chunk) vision for Native intellectual leadership and empowerment in the early 1900s to the later missions of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and education-based self-determination movements of the 1960s onward.\n\n Vital to Clouds work was the idea of how to build from Native identity and adapt without destroying that identity. As the central themes of the movement for Native control in higher education developed over the course of several decades, a variety of Native activists carried Cl.