Developing Indian Academic Professionals

Jf what use is a sociologist, anthropologist, political scientist, or historian to an Indian Tribe today? The Navajo Nation needs engineers, doctors, businessmen, and teachers desperately to achieve selfdetermination, and that is what we encourage you to prepare for. (From a speech by Chairman Peter MacDonald, Navajo Nation, November, 1978, University of New Mexico.) Chairman MacDonald's juxtaposition of technological, business and teacher training against scholarly formation for Indians gives rise to many questions which cannot be answered precisely, but which require close analysis. Given the alarming statistics reflecting the low educational level and commensurate poor social conditions of American Indians in the United States, such questions are not merely academic

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