Sovereign Schools: How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation
288 pages Review by Tim Begaye Sovereign Schools retells the events that took place in the early to mid-1970s when Eastern Shoshones and Northern Arapahos successfully established a public high school in Wyoming for their children to receive a culturally relevant education despite unrelenting challenges from the local people and initial resistance from the state and federal governments. The first few chapters set the context for historical conflicts: tribal struggles with White settlers and the United States, African Americans’ civil rights challenges, frustrations that led to Native milita...
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