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Learn ABOUT (deep listening, information)
1. Does everyone in the Oceti Sakowin know their otiwote?
2. How does knowing your otiwote connect you in a special way with makoce—the earth?
3. What are some of the stories about why Crazy Horse fought for the Black Hills?
4. How is the idea of otiwote “spiritual”?
5. Do people of the Oceti Sakowin always know their otiwote? Is there a specific time they learn of it?
6. Why is it so important for elders to pass on the wisdom?
7. What’s the difference between seeing the earth as your mother and owning it?
8. How is the Black Hills a wizipan, a container?
9. What did the people of the Oceti Sakowin use from the Black Hills for shelter, food and medicine?
10. What does it mean to have a relationship with makoce?
11. How do people “give back” to the earth?
Learn FROM (deep sharing, transformation)
1. Do I know the specific place where I was born?
2. Do I have a special relationship to that place?
3. Are there places that I have a special relationship with? Where are they? Why do I have a special relationship with them?
4. Are there special places I’d be willing to fight for?
5. Who are the people I learn wisdom from?
6. How would it change me to think less about owning something, and more about having a relationship with it?
7. What things might be easier to see in “relational” ways than in “ownership” ways? What makes the difference?
8. Are there things I treat in “ownership” ways that I could try seeing more relationally? What might I learn from that?
9. Do I have a place or a person or some other thing that is my “wizipan” ora container for all I need? Where, whom or what is it?
10. What might happen if people feel like they have no wizipan, or that their wizipan is empty?
11. Are there ways that I “give back” to some place, person or thing that acts as my wizipan?