Chapter 1. Introduction; Otso Kortekangas, Pigga Keskitalo, Jukka Nyyssönen, Andrej Kotljarchuk, David Sjögren and Merja Paksuniemi.- Chapter 2. Sámi schools, female enrolment and the teaching trade. Sami women's involvement in education in early modern Sweden; Daniel Lindmark.- Chapter 3. Out of the "pagan darkness". Christian education in Finnish Lapland; Ritva Kylli.- Chapter 4. Narratives of Sámi school history in Finland. Assimilation and empowerment; Jukka Nyyssönen.- Chapter 5. Indigenous people, vulnerability and the security dilemma. Sámi school education on the Kola Peninsula, 1917-1991; Andrej Kotljarchuk.- Chapter 6. Boarding schools in Soviet Lapland: The perspective of former pupils; Lukas Allemann.- Chapter 7. The development of Sámi children's right to learn Sámi in the Russian school context; Ekaterina Zmyvalova and Hanna Outakosi.- Chapter 8. Sámi issues in Norwegian curricula. An historical overview; Torjer A. Olsen.- Chapter 9. The history of the Sámi upper secondary school in Guovdageaidnu: Language policy development; Inker-Anni Linkola-Aikio.- Chapter 10. Christian morality and enlightenment to the natural child: Third-sector education in a children's home in Northern Finland (1907-1947); Merja Paksuniemi and Pigga Keskitalo.- Chapter 11. History of early childhood education in the Sámi language in Finland; Marikaisa Laiti.- Chapter 12. A historical perspective of indigenous education policy in Japan: The case of Ainu schools; Yoko Tanabe.- Chapter 13. Indigenous in Japan? The reluctance of the Japanese state to acknowledge indigenous peoples and their need for education; Madoka Hammine.- Chapter 14. School histories in Amazonia: Education and schooling in Apurinã lands; Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen and Francisco Apurinã de Moura Cândido.- Chapter 15. Revitalization of oral history in Wixárika community-based schools and museum: Working towards decolonization of art-education among the Indigenous peoples of Mexico; Lea Kantonen.- Chapter 16. A community of Ako, 1987-1995: Teaching and learning in the ELTU and Po Ako, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ; Mere Kepa.- Chapter 17. Education for assimilation: A brief history of Aboriginal education in Western Australia; Elizabeth Jackson-Barrett and Libby Lee-Hammond.- Chapter 17. Conclusion: Promising prospects: Reflections on research on Sámi education yesterday, today and tomorrow; Otso Kortekangas.