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Native American Program
Posted in 2009 April, tagged Indian Education, Native American on April 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Indian Education fom A to Z – Z
Posted in 2009 January, tagged A:shiwi, Anasazi, Earth, Indian Education, Native American, New Mexico, Zuni, Zuni Indians, Zuni River Valley on January 28, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Zuni Tribe
from www.crystalinks.com/zuni.html
The Zuni or Ashiwi are a Native American tribe, one of the Pueblo peoples, who live in the Pueblo of Zuni on the Zuni River, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, in western New Mexico. Zuni is 55 km (35 miles) south of Gallup, New Mexico and has a population of about 6,000, nearly all Native Americans, with 43.0% of the population below the poverty line.
Many, many years ago, the A:shiwi (Ahhhh-she-we, the name the Zuni people call themselves) came up to this Earth from the underworld at a place that is identified as either the Grand Canyon or the Mojave Desert. For many generations, the A:shiwi wandered throughout the area. Finally, they settled in the place they are now. They call this area the center or middle place.
The Zuni Indians of today are one of 19 original tribes that once inhabited the area that is now called New Mexico and Arizona – The Zuni River Valley.
The Zuni tribe is said to have originated from a tribe that lived in the same area over 1,500 years prior to the coming of the Europeans – 400 AD.
This tribe, the Anasazi, was a large society that encompassed large amounts of land, riches and many distinct cultures and civilizations. The Zuni are thought to be direct descendants of the Anasazi.
The Zuni are also distinct in that they have managed to remain quite unaffected by outer influences. They still claim the same land they always lived on, an area about the size of Rhode Island. They also mainly reside in one city, Zuni, New Mexico. Although there are Zuni Indians who live outside of the city and the general area, they are few and far between. The tribe has managed to remain intact due to the fact that they were never involved with problems that didn’t concern their own people. Because they did not fight in any wars or take sides in any conflicts, they were able to remain autonomous and were unaffected by the changes around them.
Indian Education fom A to Z – Y
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Crow, Crow Proverb, Indian Education, Native American on January 27, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Indian Education from A to Z – X
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, four directions, Indian Education, medicine wheel, Native American on January 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
X – The Four Directions – X
Native American Medicine Wheels teach people about their place in the universe and their relationship to all things on Earth. The Four Directions, inherent within medicine wheels, represent East, West, North, and South each have their own meanings. There are many interpretations, and they may vary from tribe to tribe. Here are a few aspects, according to our Anishinaabeg teachings:
– East – Yellow, where the sun rises, birth, new beginnings
– West – Black, where the sun sets, adults, a place of introspection (the “looks within” place)
– North – White, where the snow comes from, the position of the elders, the seat of wisdom
– South – Red, the place of family and relationships, adolescents
Indian Education from A to Z – W
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Indian Education, Native American, Oto, White Elk on January 25, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Indian Education from A to Z – V
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Indian Education, Native American, Potawatomi, Potawatomi Chief, Simon Pokagon on January 24, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Very seldom now do I catch one familiar note from those early warblers of the woods. They have all passed away …
I now listen to the songs of other birds that have come with the advance of civilization … and, like the wild wood birds our fathers used to hold their breath to hear, they sing in concert, without pride, without envy, without jealously – alike in forest and field, alike before wigwam or castle, alike before savage or sage, alike chief or king.
(Simon Pokagon – Potawatomi Chief)
Indian Education from A to Z – U
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Earth, Indian Education, Native American, Nature, Ute, Ute Prayer on January 23, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Ute Prayer
Earth teach me stillness
as the grasses are stilled with light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as the mother who secures her young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree which stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant which crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle which soars in the sky.
Earth teach me resignation
as the leaves which die in the fall.
Earth teach me regeneration
as the seed which rises in the spring.
Earth teach me
to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me
to remember kindness as dry fields weep in the rain.
(Author Unknown)
Indian Education from A to Z – T
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Indian Education, Native American, Tuscarora, Tuscarora Proverb on January 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Those who have one foot in the canoe and one foot in the boat
are going to fall into the river.
(Tuscarora Proverb)
Indian Education from A to Z – S
Posted in 2009 January, tagged character education, Chief Luther Standing Bear, Disraeli, Indian Education, Lakota, Native American, silence, Teton Sioux on January 21, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regardful of the rule that “thought comes before speech.”
And in the midst of sorrow, sickness, death, or misfortune of any kind, and in the presence of the notable and great, silence was a mark of respect. More powerful than words was silence with the Lakota.
His strict observance of this tenet of good behavior was the reason, no doubt, for his being given the false characterization by the white man of being stoic. He has been judged to be dumb, stupid, indifferent, and unfeeling.
As a matter of truth, he was the most sympathetic of men, but his emotions of depth and sincerity were tempered with control. Silence meant to the Lakota what it meant to Disraeli when he said, “Silence is the mother of truth,” for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.
(Chief Luther Standing Bear, Teton Sioux)