Yuli's story: Using educational policy to achieve cultural genocide

<p>All children residing in the United States have the right to a quality education. At least that is our collective expectation. Through the lived experience of Yuli, a Native American woman from the Southwest, you will discover, due to her birth on a remote reservation, she was not given the same access to education you or I would expect. On Yuli’s reservation, the school system is managed by the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Rather than provide K-12 schooling, the BIE operates K-8 on her reservation and then Native youth who want to go to high school must move off-reservation. This qualitative study focuses on Yuli’s experience as she traversed the educational system offered to her in order to complete eighth grade, earn her high school diploma and be accepted to college. Her narrative gives insight into what she lost, personally and culturally, as a result of the operational delinquency of a United States of America government agency tasked with one duty, providing an adequate, quality education to Indigenous youth across America. This study explores Yuli’s story, educational inopportunity, and the cultural impact of leaving the reservation to attain an education.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational and School Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Leon, Katrina Johnson

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ronald Hallett

• School administration
• Native American studies
• Social sciences
• Education
• Bureau of Indian Education
• Cultural genocide
• Educational inequality
• Indigenous education
• Native American boarding schools
• Native American education
• Educational Psychology
• School Psychology

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Identifier

9781369298277

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-1112