What started as seven students quickly grew into thirty-six, so the homeschooling operation moved to larger quarters in the basement of the Church of All People (21 st & Highland St.). Born of their frustrations with the public school system, discrimination against Native students, and a lack of cultural direction, these Oneida women began teaching Indigenous children in Stevens’s living room apartment and taught a curriculum that privileged Native histories, cultures, and communities. In 1969, three Oneida women-Marj Stevens, Marge Funmaker, and Darlene Funmaker Neconish-took it upon themselves to offer an alternative education for their own children and other disillusioned Native youth in Milwaukee.
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