Norman, A. (2015). “True to my own noble race”: Six Nations Women Teachers at Grand River in the early Twentieth Century. Ontario History, 107(1), 5–34. https://doi.org/10.7202/1050677ar
I found this fascinating article in my research for my final project, which is about Indigenous people – and specifically Haudenosaunee peoples – educate their own people, now and in the past. (Although it’s difficult to find a lot of specifics about pre-contact teaching and learning practices, beyond oral storytelling and learning by observation and then doing.)
This article is a history of three Indigenous women (out of many) who taught at residential day schools on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario (near where I live), during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The author writes:
“These three women negotiated multiple identities as Six Nations women, as Christians, as teachers in a Western school system, and as ‘good women.’ They took part in a process of cultural negotiation, exerting flexibility, creativity, and a willingness to look for opportunities to do the work they desired to do in and for their community.”