The Way Of Our Fathers

Presents members of several northern California Indian tribes, who depict unique elements of a way of life as it flourished before the imposition of a foreign culture. Explores effects of conventional white-oriented educational programs, such as destruction of Indian self-concepts and loss of cultural heritage and identity. Features native American teachers who discuss historical methods of Indian education and ways that both methods and content might be incorporated in the mainstream of American education.

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