50 Years of Indigenous Activism and Empowerment in Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

It has been 50 years since the Occupation at Alcatraz, the birthing of the Native American Studies movement, and the beginning of the tribal college movement. All of these events and landmark movements have impacted how Indigenous Peoples look towards the future, reclaim their Indigenous identities, and assert their tribal sovereignty in relation to education and community building. In recent years, the state of California and the San Francisco area have begun critical efforts that continue to assert tribal sovereignty and a reclamation of Indigenous Peoples through the development of the California Tribal College and the Sogorea Te Land Trust. In this presidential session, experts will reflect on their experiential links to landmark social movements and the development of Indigenous-led community organizations and will discuss the implications of the correlation and complexities among concepts of solidarity, educational and community leadership practices, and self-determination.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Cosponsor

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Chair

• Natalie Rose Youngbull, University of Oklahoma

Participants

• Duane Champagne, University of California - Los Angeles

• Corrina Gould, Sogorea Te Land Trust

• LaNada War Jack, Boise State University

Discussant

• Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, University of Washington - Tacoma