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Tuesday December 23rd 2025
Anishinabe Academy
Vision: Educating and empowering through cultural revitalization.
Mission: Exist to engage urban Indigenous students by integrating and reclaiming Native American identities, cultures and languages through authentic academic experiences.
3100 E 28th Street Minneapolis, MN 55406
612-668-0880
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All Nations American Indian at South High School
The All Nations Program (circa 1989) is a unique academic program specifically designed for American Indian students. The All Nations Team holds high and clear expectations for its students and provides innovative classroom scheduling and strategies to ensure that their students meet those expectations. High expectations combined with supportive, nurturing staff and resources from the American Indian Community inspires our students to graduate in four years with the academic skills necessary for being successful in the post-secondary and business sectors of our community. The All Nations students know that they have a shared trust responsibility to give back to the American Indian community. The All Nations Team teachers provide students with opportunities to cultivate and share gifts in classes such as:
- Ojibwe Language 1, 2 and 3
- Algebra and Geometry
- Physical Science and Chemistry
- Language Arts, Honors English and Native American Literature
- World Studies and Geography
- Native Arts
- Young Women”'s Group
- Olson Brand Academy
- Fall Welcome Back Ceremony
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Raise Your Voice – Upholding native languages
I have again had the opportunity to meet with Anita Gates at the Pow Wow Grounds Coffee Shop on Franklin Ave. Anita has an advanced degree in the field of education and is certified to teach the Dakota language. The local American Indian Parents Committee actively shares her concerns regarding the status of Native education. They are all willfully determined, even if feigning submissiveness is occasionally deployed for navigational purposes. The preservation and promotion of Native languages is a priority.
Should the rest of us care?
About a hundred years ago, Lenin addressed the chauvinism imbued to Russian workers. He stated, in essence: If you intend to build a new world from the ashes of the old, abrogate your own nationalism while making concessions to the nationalism of oppressed peoples. Actually, this is a fundamental principle.
What good are the Ojibwa and Dakota languages in today”'s world?
When the Indian was taken from the man (stolen from the stolen children), the man was diminished, not “saved”. Consider that one”'s self-image is socially determined and that self-esteem has much to do with the desire and capacity to learn. It follows that a commitment to the restoration of Native languages would elevate our nation as a whole.… Read the rest “Raise Your Voice – Upholding native languages”