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In a circle all are equal.
Look for circles in astronomy, botany, geology, zoology.
Using Two Eyed Seeing and Indigenous Ways of Knowing is taking what we know from our traditional education to look at the world through an Indigenous lens.
To your left is a graphic of the flow of the lesson. Like life it will change and be made better when we learn together. Each year I become a better person by learning with and through my students.
Intro assignment: Where do you see or observe circles or cycles?
Home - This is the main page of the website.
Survey - To help my research and to improve the lessons.
Lesson Overview
We will review Critical Ecology, First Nations Principles of learning (Chart found below), and Tribal Crit. They will be referred back to during the unit.
As you navigate you will see brown buttons on the bottom of the pages for the next steps.
Pre-assignments
Gather (Found on Netflix) Documentary Chart
First Nations Astronomy - Ojibwe Indigenous Sky Map and Two Eyed Seeing Ojibwe Astronomy (Create a star Map)
Irish Potato Famine and Choctaw History - What are your thoughts on learning this information?
As you come upon vocabulary you should write the definitions in your journal.
Here's an introduction to the short film, if you'd like:
Documentary Zoom with Hallie Sanclemente Morrison
"Essential Voyage: Indigenous Wisdom Will Save Us All" is a surreal, environmental short film based on true stories and real dreams from Hallie's journey of “becoming indigenous to place," as a first-generation Colombian-American born onto the unceded and traditional homelands of many Native American peoples. From dreams of antiquated stoves and hyper-individualism, to talking with plants and being denied travel for lacking an Earth Protection agenda, this film visualizes some of the ways that human and non-human beings are communicating with us to protect Mother Earth.
The film was created for the international group exhibition, "Cities of The Future: Living Together," hosted by the Association for Computing Machinery's Creativity & Cognition conference (virtual, 2021; Venice, Italy, 2022.) The film has since been screened as a community dialogue tool across many international audiences.
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Critical Ecology - We will use these to reflect on the lessons.
Tribal Crit (Tribal Critical Ecology) - We will use to reflect on society and education.
I(i)ndigenous - i or I?
Indigenous Science (IS) Explained
Land Acknowledgement - ceded or unceded and intent
Language and IS - How is the English language different than Native American languages (There used to be about 300 and 175 remain today.)
Natural World --> Astronomy
There will be more sites added learning happens.
PUB-LFP-POSTER-Principles-of-Learning-First-Peoples-poster-11x17.pdf
Above is another version of the path of the unit. It includes some of my favorite animals.
Above is another version of the path of the unit. It includes some of my favorite animals.
Opossum are North America's only marsupials, eat fleas and ticks, and are gentle creatures.
Turtles are not only intelligent and important members of many ecosystems, but they play a part in the cosmology of Turtle Island.
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