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Bryant, Jr. ∗  \nThe history of American Indian education has been one of colonialism and cultural erasure. From the first missionary educators who first came to the Indigenous nations of the Americas well into the twentieth century, Native children have been subjected to physical, mental and emotional abuse. This paper examines one program’s efforts at reclaiming the educational process for American Indian children and youth through an immersive, culturally relevant and reflective pedagogy. The Gadugi Partnership is a dual enrollment collaboration between Appalachian State University and Cherokee High School that endeavors to use traditional Cherokee values and practices within the classroom to promote Cherokee culture, history, and language. With particular focus on the ancient Cherokee ideal of gadugi—service—I argue that this model of education holds promise for making formal education responsive to the needs of Cherokee youth, as well as allowing them the chance to practice and promote this ideal within their community. The Cherokee people have always valued education; it is time education value the Cherokee people. I will argue that the methods and approach of the Gadugi Partnership is a step in that important direction.  \nKeywords: indigenous education, history, culturally responsive pedagogy, Cherokee education, Gadugi, Native Americans  \nIntroduction  \nJune 2, 2021, was a bright and warm day on the Qualla Boundary, the ancestral home of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) located among the picturesque Smoky Mountains in western North Carolina. The Tribal Council was running behind on the legislative agenda that day, and two Cherokee High School (CHS) students paced outside the chambers, waiting for their opportunity to make their presentation. The students were there for what was, in many ways, the culmination of what began as a service learning homework assignment in the college-level class they were taking. In many other, important ways, however, they were part of a much larger effort to make education among their EBCI community culturally respectful, relevant, and responsive. These two students, and the classmates they represented this afternoon, stood as examples of what indigenous education can be when it is thoughtful and intentional in its reflection of a Native community. Representing the Gadugi Partnership, these Native youth were shining a bright light on the potential for American Indian schooling to turn away from a brutal past and towards a hopeful and valuable future.  \n∗Gadugi Partnership Director, Appalachian State University, USA.  \nHistorical Overview of American Indian Education  \nFor more than a century, the menacing cloud of colonialism and cultural genocide hung like a specter over Native American education. The Indigenous peoples of the Americas presented a unique challenge to the Europeans who arrived—a challenge of philosophy, morality, economy, theology, and more. Indigenous ways of life such as matrilineal cultures and communal property“ownership” all stood in stark contrast to the tenets of the Western paradigm. In 1849, an author for the Baptist Missionary Herald condemned the American Indian for having “no chambers of commerce, no insurance companies, no banks,[and] no joint stock associations,” while also calling Euro-Americans to the work of teaching the continent’s Indigenous peoples “civilization and religion…art and science…learning, prosperity, and usefulness”(Berkhofer, 1965, pp. 8-9). In 1885, Massachusetts Senator Henry Dawes said of the Cherokee people,“They have got as far as they can go, because they hold their land in common…there is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization” (Conley, 2005, p. 193). Indigenous communities were also condemned for their languages and religions. For Europeans, remaking the Native peoples they encountered became integral to the ","cbCainWrSC0zvQKY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainWrSC0zvQKY","pdf",147603,16,"English","# Introduction\n## Historical Overview of American Indian Education","[{\"question\":\"Why is the Cherokee ideal of gadugi important to the proposed education model?\",\"answer\":\"The paper argues that gadugi—service—helps make education responsive to Cherokee youth and gives them a way to practice and promote the ideal in their community.\"}]","Gadugi: Reclaiming Native American Education through a Culturally Reflective Pedagogy | PDF",1792076890]