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

In the late 1960s, Indian families in Minneapolis and St. Paul were under siege. Clyde Bellecourt remembers, "We were losing our children during this time; juvenile courts were sweeping our children up, and they were fostering them out, and sometimes whole families were being broken up." I...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, Julie L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Conclusion : the global importance of Indigenous education.