Description: In Free to Be Mohawk, Louellyn White traces the history of the AFS, a tribally controlled school operated without direct federal, state, or provincial funding, and explores factors contributing to its longevity and its impact on alumni, students, teachers, parents, and staff.
Brief description: Louellyn White is an Assistant Professor in the First Peoples Studies Program at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been published in the Encyclopedia of American Indian History and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.
Review Quotes: "Louellyn White tells an incredibly powerful story of what Indian control of education means in this era of tribal self-determination and decolonization. Free to Be Mohawk is a significant addition to scholarly Indian education literature."--John W. Tippeconnic III, coeditor of Voices of Resistance and Renewal: Indigenous Leadership in Education