Michael L. Jennings is professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and president of the union United Academics. He has also served as assistant professor of political science and director of Alaskan Native studies at the University of Alaska, Archorage; special assistant to the University of Alaska system-wide president; special assistant to the president of Tanana Valley Community College; deputy director of the Fairbanks Native Association; and educational field counselor for the Alaska Federation of Natives, Inc.

Alaska Native Leadership and Higher Education provides a fascinating inside account of the views of the Native leadership in the 1970s and 1980s toward the University of Alaska. This account, as Jennings himself points out, is almost entirely critical and unfavourable. Jennings endevours to show that what outsiders might view as 'contributions and successes' were in fact achieved by great political struggle in the context of 'systematic racism and cultural conflict.'

• Chapter 1 Introduction: From the LandChapter 2 1: Worldviews and Institutional ConflictChapter 3 2: Education, Economy, EmpireChapter 4 3: The Native Agenda for Rural EducationChapter 5 4: Structural Responses to Human NeedsChapter 6 5: Urban AgendasChapter 7 6: Conclusion: Indigenous Control of EducationChapter 8 Bibliography

Michael L. Jennings is professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and president of the union United Academics. He has also served as assistant professor of political science and director of Alaskan Native studies at the University of Alaska, Archorage; special assistant to the University of Alaska system-wide president; special assistant to the president of Tanana Valley Community College; deputy director of the Fairbanks Native Association; and educational field counselor for the Alaska Federation of Natives, Inc.

Alaska Native Leadership and Higher Education provides a fascinating inside account of the views of the Native leadership in the 1970s and 1980s toward the University of Alaska. This account, as Jennings himself points out, is almost entirely critical and unfavourable. Jennings endevours to show that what outsiders might view as 'contributions and successes' were in fact achieved by great political struggle in the context of 'systematic racism and cultural conflict.'

• Chapter 1 Introduction: From the LandChapter 2 1: Worldviews and Institutional ConflictChapter 3 2: Education, Economy, EmpireChapter 4 3: The Native Agenda for Rural EducationChapter 5 4: Structural Responses to Human NeedsChapter 6 5: Urban AgendasChapter 7 6: Conclusion: Indigenous Control of EducationChapter 8 Bibliography