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Survival schools : the American Indian Movement and community education in the Twin Cities

Davis, Julie L. (Author).

Summary: In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers in Minneapolis and St. Paul and local Native parents came together to start their own community school. While AIM is best known for its national protests and political demands, the survival schools foreground the movement's local and regional engagement with issues of language, culture, spirituality, and identity. In telling of the evolution and impact of the Heart of the Earth school in Minneapolis and the Red School House in St. Paul, Julie L. Davis explains how the survival schools emerged out of AIM's local activism in education, child welfare, and juvenile justice and its efforts to achieve self-determination over urban Indian institutions. The schools provided informal, supportive, culturally relevant learning environments for students who had struggled in the public schools. Survival school classes, for example, were often conducted with students and instructors seated together in a circle, which signified the concept of mutual human respect. Davis reveals how the survival schools contributed to the global movement for Indigenous decolonization as they helped Indian youth and their families to reclaim their cultural identities and build a distinctive Native community. The story of these schools, unfolding here through the voices of activists, teachers, parents, and students, is also an in-depth history of AIM's founding and early community organizing in the Twin Cities -- and evidence of its long-term effect on Indian people's lives.

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  • ISBN: 0816674280
  • ISBN: 9780816674282 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0816674280 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816674299 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0816674299 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: Not just a bunch of radicals: A history of the survival schools -- The origins of the Twin Cities Indian Community and the American Indian Movement -- Keeping ourselves together: Education, child welfare, and AIM's advocacy for Indian families, 1968-1972 -- From one world to another: Creating alternative Indian schools -- Building our own communities: Survival school curriculum, 1972-1982 -- Conflict, adaptation, continuity, and closure, 1982-2008 -- The meanings of survival school education: Identity, self-determination, and decolonization -- Conclustion: The global importance of indigenous education.
Subject: Indians of North America Education Minnesota Minneapolis
Indians of North America Education Minnesota Saint Paul
American Indian Movement History
Education and state Minnesota Minneapolis
Education and state Minnesota Saint Paul
Community education Minnesota Minneapolis
Community education Minnesota Saint Paul

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 97.65 .M6 D38 2013 281377 Stacks Reshelving -

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