Description: This book illustrates how the Louisiana state apparatus historically dictated educational exclusion through its infamous Jim Crow policies of racial segregation.
Review Quotes: "The United Houma Nation of Louisiana was doubly disadvantaged. As Indians, they were denied access both to schools intended for white children and to those set aside for African-Americans. Working closely with elders and others, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook tells their story of educational exclusion and...their [subsequent appropriation of] a colonial institution for their own purposes. Ng-A-Fook is at his best in sensitively and respectively evoking the Houma perspective, using conversations with informants to open up a remarkable window into a way of life and worldview. «An Indigenous Curriculum of Place» provides an incisive, highly readable critique of the racial segregation long associated with the American South from an indigenous perspective while also holding out hope for equitable schooling grounded in relevant curriculum. Jean Barman, Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada