Crossing Mountains provides important insights about integrating Native-language learning into public education. Using case studies of school districts on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, Phyllis Ngai argues that carefully designed and inclusive Native-language programs can benefit communities and students regardless of ethnic identity.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Context of Native American Language Education in Montana
Chapter 2. How Can Public Schools Help? A Local Inquiry
Chapter 3. Salish Language Education: A Record of Heroic Steps in the Face of Steep Obstacles
Chapter 4. Collaborative Possibilities for Enhancing Native American Language Education: Grassroots Suggestions
Chapter 5. Churchill School District: The Balancing Act
Chapter 6. Elkhorn School District: Leading the Way
Chapter 7. Mountainview School District: Breaking the Barriers
Chapter 8. Building a Bridging Native American Language Curriculum
Chapter 9. Native American Language Learning as Place-based Multicultural Education
References
Appendix 1
About the Author
 

Phyllis Ngai teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of Montana-Missoula. She co-directed primary-school and middle-school Indian Education for All (IEFA) programs in Missoula, Montana.