{"id":64015,"date":"2017-06-27T19:37:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=64015"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:57:44","slug":"after-school-program-teaches-native-children-their-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/after-school-program-teaches-native-children-their-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"After-school program teaches native children their heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jiayan Jenny Shi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Kelly Summers, 44, is a Chicago-born Native American who volunteers with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicago-american-indian-edu.org\/chicago-american-indian-university-education\/Chicago-American-Indian-History.html\">Native Scholars<\/a>, an after-school tutoring program at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicago-american-indian-edu.org\/index.html\">American Indian Association of Illinois<\/a> (AIAI). Every Tuesday afternoon, native children across Chicago meet at a church basement in Andersonville where they get\u00a0homework assistance and cultural instruction.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Chicago native children inherit traditions at an after-school program\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/221316078?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Summers learned cultural traditions at\u00a0a Menominee Indian reservation and from her late father. Now she tutors native children as a way to give back to the community and continue her father\u2019s dream and mission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Kelly Summers assists native children in their homework at the after-school program on May 16. 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Summers learned cultural traditions at\u00a0a Menominee Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":64018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,3893],"tags":[3544,192],"class_list":["post-64015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-spring-2017","tag-promote","tag-promo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>After-school program teaches native children their heritage - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/after-school-program-teaches-native-children-their-heritage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"After-school program teaches native children their heritage - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Jiayan Jenny Shi Kelly Summers, 44, is a Chicago-born Native American who volunteers with\u00a0Native Scholars, an after-school tutoring program at the\u00a0American Indian Association of Illinois (AIAI). 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