This is Who We Are

Janelle Williams

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. How have boarding school experiences impacted native people in the US and elsewhere?
  2. How are the boarding school experiences of parents and grandparents impacting the education of children and grandchildren today?
  3. How has cultural loss impacted lifestyle among native people?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, transformation)

  1. What “lifestyle” learnings did you get from your parents or grandparents?
  2. Are there things you would have liked to learn from your grandparents or parents that you didn’t? What were the reasons those particular things weren’t passed on to you?
  3. 3. What was your family’s attitude toward education and schools or colleges? How are your attitudes about those things now informed by those inherited perspectives?
  4. What, if anything, do you think YOUR generation might be in danger of losing? How important is that to you?