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Identity in the Classroom

Velma Kills Back
Transcript

Learn ABOUT
(deep listening, information)

  1. What does it mean to maintain who we are?
  2. How can the chiefs help our Lakota students identify who they are?
  3. Why do some not identify as Lakota if they are? (Gangs identify as “blues,” “reds,” or “blacks.”
  4. Who am I? How do I identify myself?
  5. How are songs like poems? How do they help us identify ourselves?
  6. How might a word we help us with our identify?
  7. How does knowing what each chief stands for help Lakota students to understand who they are?
  8. How does what we put in our bodies reflect Lakota identity?

Learn FROM
(deep listening, information)

  1. How do I identify myself? What are the words or labels I use when I introduce myself to someone?
  2. Do I name my cultural heritage when getting to know someone new?
  3. What are examples of groups with which I like to identify?
  4. Does music help me in understanding how I am feeling? Why or why not?
  5. Are there heroes in my life with which I want to identify? What makes them heroes to me?
  6. How does caring for my body and what I put inside it help me to develop my identify?