The Yazzie Case: Building a Public Education System for Our Indigenous Future

The Yazzie Case: Building a Public Education System for Our Indigenous FutureThe story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her son's effort to seek an adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and piecemeal educational reform. The 2018 decision in the Yazzie Martinez lawsuit proved what has always been known: the educational needs of Native American students were not being met. In this superb collection of essays, the contributors cover the background and

" —Robin Wall Kimmerer

grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by Franz Boas at Columbia University

and connecting to the land that are grounded in tradition

"I'm running low on medicines

attempting to be as objective as possible and revising multiple times

Sullivan targets the morphological composition of participial verbs in Algonquian parlance and categorizes the variation of their form across a number of communities

Major events are presented from a Pawnee perspective to capture the outlook of the Echo-Hawk ancestors

childbirth

But one young girl can't wait to grow her hair long: for herself

and generational trauma

sweetgrass itself is a plant used in the Ojibwe ceremonial odissimaa bag

Norvia and her siblings—all five of them—are determined to make 1914 their best year ever