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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968059903321

Autore

Davis Julie L.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of Minnesota Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8166-8704-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 pages)

Disciplina

371.82089/970776579

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Education - Minneapolis - Minnesota

Indians of North America - Education - Minnesota - Saint Paul

Education and state - Minneapolis - Minnesota

Education and state - Saint Paul - Minnesota

Community education - Minneapolis - Minnesota

Community education - Saint Paul - Minnesota

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: Not Just a Bunch of Radicals: A History of the Survival Schools -- 1 The Origins of the Twin Cities Indian Community and the American Indian Movement -- 2 Keeping Ourselves Together: Education, Child Welfare, and AIM's Advocacy for Indian Families, 1968-1972 -- 3 From One World to Another: Creating Alternative Indian Schools -- 4 Building Our Own Communities: Survival School Curriculum, 1972-1982 -- 5 Conflict, Adaptation, Continuity, and Closure, 1982-2008 -- 6 The Meanings of Survival School Education: Identity, Self-Determination, and Decolonization -- CONCLUSION: The Global Importance of Indigenous Education -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, AIM organizers and local Native parents



started their own community school. The story of these schools, unfolding through the voices of activists, teachers, and families, is also a history of AIM's founding and community organizing--and evidence of its long-term effect on Indian people's lives.