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11 Am. Indian L.J. 1 (2022-2023)

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         EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW:

 LEARNING FROM A COLONIAL PROJECT TURNED TOOL OF LIBERATION


                 Ariel J. Liberman' and  Douglas  L. Waters, Jr.2


   I.    IN T R O D U C T IO N ...............................................................................
   II.   TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY, TRIBAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENTS,  AND THE FEDERAL
          GOVERNMENT  SINCE 1975..................................................................
          A. The Federal Acts: Establishing Relationships and Funding........................
          B. New Millennium; New (and Problematic) Federal Efforts to Standardize.......
   III.  CASE  STUDIES IN DECOLONIZING COMMUNITY EDUCATION TODAY: TRIBAL-FEDERAL
         PARTNERSHIP AS MODEL  FOR COMMUNITY-FEDERAL  PARTNERSHIP...................
         A.  The Akwesasne Mohawk and the Failure of State Control of Education.........
         B.  The Mississippi Choctaw and Federal-Tribal Partnership in Education
             Governance ...............................................................................
         C.  Decolonizing Education Governance: From the Coloniality of Power to the
             Language of International Human Rights.............................................
   IV.    SETTING THE STAGE: AT-RISK POPULATIONS CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE EVEN UNDER
         TH E E SSA   ....................................................................................... .
   V.    LEARNING  FROM THE INDIGENOUS MODEL: GOVERNMENTS  SHOULD FOLLOW  THE
          SCHOOL'S LEAD AND NOT THE OTHER WAY  AROUND.....................................
   V I.  C O N C L U SIO N .....................................................................................



















 Lecturer, Oglethorpe University; Robert W. Thrower Scholar in Law and Religion and S.J.D. Candidate, Center
 for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory Law School, where his research focuses on education law and policy,
law and community, the intersection between law and religion, and comparative law.
2 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Native American Religion, Emory University Center for the Study of Law, and Religion.