historian Michael Witgen recreates the world of the indigenous peoples who ruled the western interior of North America

and Charlene O'Rourke

Indians and whites

" —Layli Long Soldier

empathize and wonder

Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities Cherokee historian Michael Witgen recreates theIn 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