The School-Prison Trust

Sabina E. Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Jeremiah Chin

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781452968049
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: History of Education
• Index: Social Sciences

Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples

The School–Prison Trust describes interrelated histories, ongoing ideologies, and contemporary expressions of what the authors call the “school–prison trust”: a conquest strategy encompassing the boarding school and juvenile prison models, and deployed in the long war against Native peoples. At its heart, the book is a constellation of stories of Indigenous self-determination in the face of this ongoing conquest.

Following the stories of an incarcerated young man named Jakes, the authors consider features of school–prison relations for young Native people to ask urgent questions about Indigenous sovereignty, conquest, survivance, and refusal.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series List
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction: Conquest Projects
• 1. Jakes’ Refusal, Squanto’s Revenge
• 2. A Name and a World: Refusal Relationality
• 3. Slipstream Shuffle
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Authors