Living Warriorship: Learning Warriorship within the Context of Indigenous Community

Abstract

Despite efforts to improve the schooling experience of American Indian children in theUnited States, academic achievement, by dominant cultural standards, remains elu­sive. This critical ethnographic study presents ways that the social practice of educationin a public urban school produced warriorship, situated in scholarship, among AmericanIndian adolescents and adults at the school. Ogichidaawin, warriorship, is a practiceoffering a design for living, according to community cultural values of respect, har­mony, balance, and cohesion, that includes intense and purposeful learning.