Educator in the 70s

I interviewed a Native American woman who taught history in the 1970s.  She began teaching in Coos Bay in the mid to late 70s, but she had been working in education from very early on in the decade.  The school she taught at was predominantly white and no one would describe the school as progressive.  The first thing that she talked about was the way in which students were categorized.  Earlier on school official would say, "he looks  white, he looks Indian, they are Asian and so on."  This way of doing things was obviously not an ideal way to classify multicultural students in the school.  In the mid-70s students were given the opportunity to self-identify themselves and this gave a more accurate representation of the student body as a whole.  During this time this educator with the help of others began the Indian education program,  which has done a lot of great things for the students.  She described it as "pulling teeth" to get the administration on board with the program but that was whole other story.
As a history teacher she saw quite a few inaccuracies with the material being presented and she began to question what was being taught to the students.  The administration at these time was very uneasy about straying from the traditional textbooks and materials that had been taught for decades.  The difficulties the teacher had was finding accurate resources for her classes.  The information wasn't found in the class text and this is the type of material that the administration wanted.  Her response was to look to other forms of material such as letters, memoirs, and interviews.  The class text that she had to work with were full of information that was bias towards the main excepted view.  The diligent research she brought in was questioned and not seen as "truth" compared to the textbooks they had been using for years.
Throughout the interview she continuously described her time teaching in the 70s as a battle between her and the administration.  "They didn't want to accept new information, they just wanted to keep using the same old material."  In her opinion most of this material was inaccurate.  She described some of the things she was forced to teach as "total crap and they knew it."  She taught in schools for some time but eventually left this role but continued to work with children.  My personal impression was that she was bitter about her time teaching and was surprised about the reaction she got from the administration.