This chapter emphasizes the discrimination and the segregation of the educational system for immigrants after the global integration of world societies in United States and the struggle of the immigrants’ civil rights activism for equal educational opportunities and participation and control of their own educational system to protect their languages and cultures. I was very interested about the Native Americans and their indigenous educational rights because today the Native Americans are still not welcome to integrate in the social group comparing with other immigrants. They are still treated as inferior than others even though they inhabited for long-term of their lands indeed, the United States approved the Declaration of the rights of Indigenous people. This chapter discusses the Self-determination act which the Native Americans struggled for their right to treat equal citizenship and maximum participation in American life. The principle of the Indian Self-determination and Education Act were the Native Americans have the right to preserve their language and culture through the education as well as the right of the maximum participation and control in all aspects of their educational programs. Therefore, the Native Americans supported bilingual programs in Native American languages and English for their education to protect their culture, religion and language as well as to prepare both cultures successfully to adopt the universal values. Maybe the Native Americans are still refused from urban society however, they are free now and they still preserve their culture and language from dominant cultures, it is because of their strong solidarity and their bilingual education for the next generation to teach them the value of their race, culture and language as well as to protect from other dominant culture. Therefore, I believe that the bilingual education program can be great weapon to survive or becoming dominant. In my experience, I have never seen Native Americans in the United States but I saw some Indigenous people of South America. They are poor and low education, however, they can speak bilingual as Spanish and their language. So although they are low standard, they still preserve their language and they integrate with South Americans selling their crops to them through the Spanish communication. Other example that mentioned in this chapter, Mexican American became the part of dominant cultures and languages because they advocated the bilingual education system in school to teach their children Spanish and their history and culture. They showed the importance of their language and culture through the participation of political activities which reflected in the Democratic Party to support the bilingual education movement. United States is multicultural nations so bilingual education is really helpful to integrate with other cultural people and it help to respect other cultures and religions. I saw some parents are not teaching their language to their children so they can only communicate in English. Do you think these children appreciate less their origin culture than other children who have learn bilingual? If the Native Americans did not resist against their right to preserve their culture and language and they have adopted the American Culture, are they able to be freedom now and do they become much better social standard as other immigrants?
