Conflicting Landscapes : American Schooling/Alaska Natives

This comprehensive illustrated volume presents a wide-ranging picture of the schooling of Alaska Native children from past to present. It explores the histories of changing philosophies of schooling and their effect on generations of Alaska Native students, details the situation - financial, social, and educational - of the many rural schools serving this population, and offers cogent, straightforward proposals for improving the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual health of present and future generations of Alaska Natives.

Clifton Bates has been involved in Alaska Native education for more than thirty years as a teacher, school district administrator, and university professor. Michael J. Oleksa has taught Alaska Native history and cross-cultural communications at Alaska Pacific University and all three main campuses of the University of Alaska system. He is the author of several books, including Another Culture/Another World.