Without Destroying Ourselves: A Century of Native Intellectual Activism for Higher Education politics "Part of your purpose was

"Part of your purpose was determined before you were even born

didn't resist and no longer exist

and define us--and wield even the power to restore a broken family

they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux

considering questions their grandfather posed more than a century ago

Without Destroying Ourselves: A Century of Native Intellectual Activism for Higher Education politics "Part of your purpose wasWithout Destroying Ourselves is an intellectual history of Native activism seeking greater access to and control of higher education in the twentieth century. John A. Goodwin traces themes of Henry Roe Cloud's (Ho Chunk) vision for Native intellectual leadership and empowerment in the early 1900s to the later missions of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and education based, self determination movements of the 1960s onward. Vital to Cloud's work