Conclusion

This chapter summarizes some of the more general insights and recommendations that emerge from the survivance stories for schools and districts, teacher education programs, educational policy, and research. Its central argument is that Indigenous education is a shared responsibility and that support for Indigenous education must become institutionalized. Further, this chapter advocates for in-service and preservice teacher education that cultivates teachers’ anticolonial literacy, the ability to critically read into Eurocentric and colonizing educational discourses and practices. The book ends with a brief vignette, documenting a community effort premised on survivance, exploring the ways that survivance is often improvisational, using the resources at hand to support Native students despite, at times, dire circumstances.