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: "Beautifully written and respectfully told, this ethnographic case study is a much-needed examination of one Indigenous community's pathbreaking efforts to exercise educational sovereignty. The Akwesasne Freedom School stands as an exemplar of Indigenous schooling. This inspired account is a major contribution to Indigenous studies, education, applied linguistics, and all who work for education equity and justice."--Teresa L. McCarty, author of A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling