Lakota Economics

Stephanie Charging Eagle

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does it mean to be Lakota?
  2. How are the tipis and buffalo of the past related to today?
  3. What are the economics of the Native people today?
  4. What does it mean to be self-sufficient?
  5. How do Native people help on another through self-sufficiency?
  6. How are Native societies ever-changing and dynamic?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, transformation)

  1. What are examples of the economics of my family? For example, how has my family provided for itself over the years?
  2. How is my family self-sufficient?
  3. In what ways do I or my family rely on others?
  4. How as the society I live in changed over the years? What helps it to be dynamic?
  5. In what ways would life change if we no longer worked toward self-sufficiency?