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Survival Schools: The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities transgender and historical photos from 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