AIM Opens “Survival Schools” (dec 1, 1972 – dec 1, 1972)
Description:
The American Indian Movement (AIM) organizers and parents in the Minneapolis area started their own community schools as an alternative to public and Bureau of Indian Affairs (now Bureau of Indian Education) schools with high dropout rates. 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.”https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/native-american-activism-1960s-to-present/
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Date:
dec 1, 1972
dec 1, 1972
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