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Tiospaye, Relatives, and Prayer

Jace DeCory
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does it mean to be Lakota?
  2. Who are the Oceti Sakowin?
  3. Who are the Seven Council Fires?
  4. How is being from Oceti Sakowin different from being from a Reservation?
  5. How long have Reservations been around?
  6. What is a Tiospaye?
  7. Why is it important to know who our relatives are?
  8. Why were Native people not allowed to leave the Reservation in the past?
  9. What does it mean to pray?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, transformation)

  1. What is my heritage? What race(s) cultures do I come from?
  2. In what ways have I experienced being limited in where I can go and what I can do?
  3. Who do I consider to be part of my Tiospaye?
  4. Why is it important to identify my extended family? How does that help me with my identity?
  5. Would my identity change at all without contact with my broader family and background?
  6. What is prayer to me? Why is or isn’t it important to me?