Honoring Resilience: Learning from the Holocaust, Dakota Exile, and Minnesota Tribal Nations

Date: August 5-9, 2025

Location: Plymouth, Minnesota

Participants gain confidence to teach about the Holocaust, Minnesota’s Tribal Nations, and human rights. Learning includes speakers, field trips (Indigenous sites and Mount Zion Temple), primary sources, reflective writing, and discussion. We examine the Holocaust, Dakota Exile, and Indian Boarding Schools focusing on the resilience of Jewish and Indigenous Minnesotans.

Benefits of Participation:

  • 60 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Programming will include:

  • Indigenous sites field trip day visiting historical and contemporary sites (Historical: Bdote/Fort Snelling, Oheyawahe; Contemporary: Hoċokata Ti, Birchbark Books)
  • Visit to the Indigenous Food Lab
  • Shabbat service, introduction to Judaism, and sanctuary tour at Mount Zion Temple
  • Hearing Holocaust family testimony

In partnership with St. Cloud State University, Mount Zion Temple, and Jewish Community Relations Council.

      

Leaders

  • Anne McCarney

    Anne McCarney has over 15 years of experience as a high school teacher.  Anne began teaching through the PLACE Corps teacher service program in Los Angeles where she taught at Verbum Dei, a Cristo Rey Network school, and earned her Master’s in Secondary Education at Loyola Marymount University. She then taught English for grades 10-12 in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and St. Cloud with a focus on social justice issues and educational equity. To support her work as a Holocaust and social justice educator, Anne completed the TOLI Summer Seminar in 2018 and TOLI leadership institute in 2019 as well as the Bearing Witness teacher education programs in Washington DC in 2014 and Israel in 2016. Anne currently works in Learning & Development with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe’s Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures.

  • Kathy Robinson

    Kathy has been an educator at both St Cloud Technical and Community College since 2012. She teaches Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sociology and classes in the Human Relations and Multicultural Departments. In recognition of her excellence, Kathy was awarded the Outstanding Impact Award at St. Cloud Technical and Community College in 2022.  Kathy received her Master’s Degree in Social Responsibility from St Cloud State University.  Before becoming an educator, she worked with homeless teens in Minneapolis and juvenile felons in a corrections/treatment facility. Kathy attended TOLI’s Minnesota Regional Seminar in 2017, the 2018 TOLI Summer Seminar in New York City, and TOLI’s Leadership Institute in 2019.