A good understanding of this chapter's content would include an understanding of why each of these terms is important to education.

assimilation
the process in which an individual or group is absorbed into a new social context through a process of acculturation that results in the individual or group's original culture being replaced by the new culture.

boarding school
schools designed to house and teach children away from their home communities. Especially problematic for Native American children because boarding schools were used to replace native culture and language with European culture.

Bureau of Ethnology
a bureau of social science active during the New Deal; used experts to create a greater awareness of tribal cultural and potential cultural obstacles to administration.

Bureau of Indian Affairs
an agency of the Department of the Interior charged with the administration of American Indian lands and goods.

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
19th-century Supreme Court case that, with leadership from Justice John Marshall, established the doctrine of Native peoples as "domestic dependent wards" of the federal government.

community control
emphasis on community democratic decision making in contrast to state or federal government control of social and educational programs.

cultural pluralism
a condition in which social and educational values encourage a variety of ethnic and cultural perspectives, languages, and values that enrich one another through their harmonious coexistence.

Dawes Allotment Act
a statute of 1887 that enabled American Indian tribal members to claim private ownership of tribal land.

dominant culture
that culture which is most strongly represented in a society's power structure and institutions such as government and schooling; may be a numerical minority in the culture as a whole but exerts disproportionate power.

Merriam Report
"The Problem of Indian Administration"; a report that increased the awareness of social and educational problems on tribal lands during the 1920s.

scientific administration
the application of social science research to social policy.

tribal self-determination
a term that developed during the 1960s to describe the desire of Indian tribes and communities for self-government.

Worcester v. Georgia
a Supreme Court case that strengthened the federal status of tribes and excluded them from state control.