Educators in Action | Connecting Past and Present through Indigenous Art

Associate Professor and Director of the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University, Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, a citizen of the Lower Sioux Community, has worked with pre-service teachers for the majority of her career in education. “As a scholar and as a teacher, I have some ambitions, and it’s to change the paradigms of all Minnesotans,” St. Clair said. “So, I have this sort of modest ambition.” Viewing education as a tool of colonization for Dakota (and…