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  • Resisting Termination: Native American College Student Activism and the National Indian Youth Council, 1953-1970

  • M. Nathan Tanner
  • Journal:
    History of Education Quarterly , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 May 2025, pp. 1-30
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  • The history of student activism during the twentieth century in both K-12 and higher education contexts has a robust literature base; however, Native American student activism has largely been overlooked by historians of education. Predating the well-known American Indian Movement (AIM) by nearly a decade, the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) successfully created an organizing base during the 1960s from which other Indigenous activist movements emerged, many of which still operate today. By focusing their efforts on student-run publications, direct action, and community-run education, the Indigenous college students and young adult activists constituting the NIYC contributed significantly to a larger social movement opposing and ultimately upending the federal policies of termination imposed on American Indian tribes that lasted from 1953 to 1970.