Culturally sustaining policymaking in indigenous communities [electronic resource] : partnering to promote lasting change / Aprille J. Phillips ; foreword by Teresa L McCarty.

"The book provides an overview of education policy and the state's role in local school improvement as a pursuit of democracy. The book provides a historical account and description of current American Indian education policy and the concepts of self-determination, self-education, survivance, and sovereignty. The book explores the spaces in policymaking and implementation (physical and conceptual) that constrain and the agents that reconstitute space. The book examine culturally responsive policy culture and what occurs in critical moments that cultivate a social justice policy culture that honors Tribal sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing and being"-- Provided by publisher.