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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: American Indian Movement Survival Schools in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 1968-2002 Abstract: This dissertation provides a history of two American Indian alternative schools, Heart of the Earth and Red School House, founded by American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers, Indian parents, and other Native people in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1972. It explores why these "survival schools" were created, what they worked to accomplish and how, and what they have meant to Indian people, in the Twin Cities, in the upper Midwest region, and throughout the country. Tracing the schools' development over time, the author illuminates their most significant challenges, successes, and shortcomings. She argues that those who founded and sustained these schools have nurtured the identity development of Native youth and strengthened Indian families through an educational system grounded in traditional culture and spirituality and infused with political awareness and activism. The schools also have served as centers of community, and they have fostered movements for self-determination and cultural revitalizaton. Survival school people have resisted assimilation and worked for the survival of traditional cultural knowledge, skills, practices, values, and beliefs. |
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