Free to Be Mohawk: Indigenous Education at the Akwesasne Freedom School (Volume 12 of the New Directions in Native American Studies Series)

by Louellyn White

Book Overview

Akwesasne territory straddles the U.S.-Canada border in upstate New York, Ontario, and Quebec. In 1979, in the midst of a major conflict regarding self-governance, traditional Mohawks there asserted their sovereign rights to self-education. Concern over the loss of language and culture and clashes with the public school system over who had the right to educate their children sparked the birth of the Akwesasne Freedom School (AFS) and its grassroots,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806151544
• ISBN13: 9780806151540
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"