Introduction

• Published in: Beyond Access pp. 1 - 15
• Main Authors: Waterman, Stephanie J., Shotton, Heather J., Lowe, Shelly C.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2018
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Native Hawaiian; Postsecondary Education; Grand Traverse Bay; Gates Millennium Scholar; Non-Native Colleges; Title III; Native American College Students; Alaska Native; Nation Building; Alaska Native Students; Higher Education; Mainstream Educational System; Prep; Indigenous Student Experiences; Stem Program; Native American Students; Stem Field; American Indian College Students; College Access; Tribal Colleges; Native Hawaiian Students; Native Students; Stem Discipline; Indigenous Students; Native American High School Students
• ISBN: 9781620362884; 1620362872; 9781620362877; 1620362880
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443230-1

The boarding school era was a brutal system sponsored by churches and the federal government to replace Native cultural with another. Mainstream educational systems in the Americas are based on Eurocentric values such as individualism, Christianity, paternalism, competitiveness, and nuclear family systems, which are often incompatible with Indigenous value systems of community, sharing, extended family systems, giving back to one's community, and a respect for creation as a relation not as a resource. Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions are institutions of higher education that have a Native American undergraduate student enrollment of at least 10%. The term tribal educational agency means an authorized governmental agency of an American Indian tribe, an Alaska Native tribe, or tribal organization that is primarily responsible for regulating, administering, or supervising the formal education of tribal members. The chapter also presents an overview on the key concepts discussed in this book.