Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- American Indian Education Scholarship -- 2 -- Cultural Discontinuity Theory -- Reading 1 -- Teachers' Cultural Knowledge and Understanding of American Indian Students and Their Families -- 3 -- Structural Inequality Theory -- Reading 2 -- Constructing Failure and Maintaining Cultural Identity: Navajo and Ute School Leavers -- 4 -- Interactionalist Theory -- Reading 3 -- Ethnicity and the Concept of Social Integration in Tinto's Model of Institutional Departure -- 5 -- Transculturation Theory -- Reading 4 -- Transculturation Theory as an Explanation for College Persistence among Culturally Traditional American Indian Students -- 6 -- Continuing the Tradition -- References -- About the Author.