Table of Contents

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

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Julie L. Davis is associate professor of history at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University in central Minnesota.

Reviews

"For the first time, Julie L. Davis gives us an essential view of one of the American Indian Movement’s most audacious and long-lasting achievements: the creation of schools for the lost Native kids of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Sympathetic but never sentimental, she captures the righteous anger, new-found hope, and rugged determination that turned dreams into reality." —Paul Chaat Smith, author of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong

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