We’re Not All the Same

Lowel Amiotte

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. Who are the Navajo people, and where are they from?
  2. Who are the Hopi people, and where are they from?
  3. Who are the Salish people, and where are they from?
  4. Who are the Flathead people, and where are they from?
  5. What is the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and when did it open?
  6. How do the different tribes show the great variety and uniqueness of native people?
  7. What does Lowell mean when he says, “We’re not all the same?”
  8. Differences are important to identify…how does one show respect to the differences?
  9. Lowell talks about respect as the #1 virtue of native people. What are the other virtues?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, transformation)

  1. What race, nationality or cultural group do you most identity with? What makes it unique from other groups?
  2. Have you ever been generalized into a group that you felt didn’t represent who you are? How did it feel?
  3. What traditions, customs or celebrations do you practice as part of the group you identify with the most?
  4. How did you learn them?
  5. What are the virtues you hold as most important? How did you learn about them