Od Carlisle Industrial School do uniwersytetu trzeciego świata: LaRose Louise Erdrich i dekolonizacja indiańskiej edukacji
From Carlisle Industrial School to Third World University: LaRose by Louise Erdrich and the Decolonization of Native Americans Education

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the project of decolonizing education of Native Americans on the example of the novel LaRose by Louise Erdrich and la paperson’s theory of decolonization. In her novel, Erdrich returns to the second half of the nineteenth century to expose the mechanisms that led to the nationwide creation of boarding schools for First Nation children that were a means of mass assimilation of Indigenous Americans. Separation from home and the ban on speaking native languages led to a sense of cultural alienation and the conditions in underfunded schools often resulted in increased student mortality. Recalling the trauma of boarding schools, experienced by many generations, Erdrich proposes a cultural and ideological reclaiming of the education system so that it is not identified only with the colonizer’s institutions. Thus, she is involved in a decolonization project, which is conceived as acting in the name and for the good of the local community. Decolonization understood in this way, as the construction of a new order on the foundations of the old one, is perceived as an affirmation of indigenous cultures and an action focused on political change.

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