Abstract
This book provides the first history of the AIM survival schools, two alternative, culture-based, community-controlled schools founded by American Indian Movement organizers and other Indian parents in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1972. It tells a compelling story of the schools’ origins, structure, curriculum, evolution, closing, impact, and meanings from 1968 to 2008. Davis explains how the survival schools emerged out of AIM’s local activism in education, child welfare, and juvenile justice and its efforts to achieve self-determination over urban Indian institutions. At the Heart of the Earth School in Minneapolis and the Red School House in St. Paul, AIM organizers and other local Indian people worked to nurture the identity development of Native youth through an educational system grounded in traditional Indigenous knowledge, infused with social consciousness, galvanized by political action, and anchored by a commitment to community. Over time, the schools themselves would become a center for Indigenous community in the Twin Cities and the upper Midwest region. Davis argues that the people of the survival schools practiced Indigenous decolonization. They resisted American settler colonialism’s “logic of elimination” by repairing the losses incurred through past assimilation policies and rejecting the ongoing assimilationist imperative at work in post-World War Two urban society. Survival school educators also contributed to the transnational Indigenous decolonization movement by restoring connections to individual and collective Indigenous identities; rebuilding Native family and community structures; and revitalizing Indigenous languages, cultural knowledge, and spiritual systems.
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