Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities

Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin CitiesIn 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. In 1972, motivated by prejudice in the child welfare system and hostility in the public schools, American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers and local Native parents came

and provide visions of the future

What Mailhot has accomplished in this exquisite book is brilliance both raw and refined

I speak the truth

The Authorized Biography of Sitting Bull by His Great-Grandson

the reclamation of land

and perhaps even powerful enough to save the world

vignettes of family stories

Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life

and the preservation of his native language and culture

and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame

Crazy Horse Weeps

Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate