The School-Prison Trust

By Sabina E. Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Jeremiah Chin

Book Overview

Considers colonial school-prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples

The School-Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the "school-prison trust" a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.

Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school-prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517914264
• ISBN13: 9781517914264
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 6.9"