We are sending out this email in regards to a great opportunity and learning experience: the FIFTH annual Dave Larsen American Indian Immersion Experience--a five-day tour and learning experience focusing on the American Indian Civil Rights Movement and the community’s efforts to protect, preserve, and assert tribal sovereignty, language, culture, identity, and treaty rights. It will have a main focus on the behaviors, actions, and interactions between indigenous and non-indigenous individuals, groups, institutions, and nations. This experience is a partnership between North Hennepin Community College, Robbinsdale Area Schools, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Columbia Heights School District, Anoka-Hennepin School District, Edina Public Schools, Mounds View Public Schools and several tribal nations and colleges including Leech Lake, Fond Du Lac, Red Lake, Prairie Island and the Upper and Lower Sioux Communities in Minnesota, and Red Cliff, Bad River, Lac du Flambeau and Lac Courte Oreilles in Wisconsin. This year's tour will take place in April 2019 and focus on Dakota sites primarily in southern Minnesota.
This opportunity is designed to provide an up-close immersive experience of some of the events, places, peoples, and systems throughout American Indian Country that have helped shape and define contemporary indigenous theories. This is a hybrid course with a combination of face-to-face meetings and an online component, and it will also include an off campus expedition to American Indian Nations, scheduled for April 25-29, 2019. University of Minnesota students DO NOT have it enroll in it for credit. Students accepted into the program can participate for free, however, students will need to pay for most lunches, snacks and any personal items they might need for the trip.
Check out this blog posting about last year's American Indian Immersion Experience (April 2018), written by an Institute on the Environment (IonE) researcher, Kelly Meza Prado and UMN student Love Soun, who both attended.
If you are interested in participating in the 2019 Dave Larsen American Indian Immersion Experience, please fill this form out by Monday, November 12th:
Students advised through the CLA MLK Advising Program should also contact Charissa Blue-Downs, as the MLK Program will be offering a similar trip this May.
Questions?
Fawn Grauman-White at graum007@umn.edu
Beth Mercer-Taylor at bethmt@umn.edu who was staff for the trip in 2017
Charissa Blue-Downs at blue0051@umn.edu
