A place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and the struggle for self-determination in indigenous schooling

Framing the story

People, place, and ethnographic texts

"How it was"

"We were going to school being taught only by Anglos"

A portrait of change

Origin stories

Community and classroom

The problems and politics of program evaluation

The two faces of self-determination

Transitions and turmoil

"If we want to be powerful, we have to exercise our power" : indigenous teachers as change agents

Protest

"What if the children forget the Navajo language?"

Epilogue : "The hopes and dreams of Rough Rock".