Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xii
6. Introduction xiv
7. Approaching the Native Education Centre
8. The Place 3
9. Power, Culture, and Control 13
10. Doing Ethnography: Socially Constructing Reality 27
11. Historical Fragments: First Nations Control in British Columbia 50
12. Becoming: A History of the Native Education Centre 77
13. The Everyday World of Taking Control
14. The People and the Place 109
15. The People and the Programs 149
16. Taking Control: What They Said 194
17. Forming Knowledge, Creating Discourse
18. Contradiction, Power, and Control 233
19. Appendix 1: Permission Letters 255
20. Appendix 2: Interview Schedules 259
21. Notes 262
22. References 266
23. Index 275