https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456 en-us 2023-06-03 16:38:14 UTC 2023-06-11 02:18:40 UTC hello@padlet.com dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613663806 Going off of experience, I was never really taught much about Indigenous People's history. It wasn't until middle school when I finally learned how fake Thanksgiving was. As such, it is important to teach students about the atrocities Indigenous people had to live through and the effects it had even today. ]]> 2023-06-03 19:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613663806 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613664375 Despite all the oppression and attempts at re-educating them, Native Americans did not just sit around and allow settlers to destroy who they are. There are some attempts at them putting up a fight to try to preserve who they are. ]]> 2023-06-03 19:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613664375 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613664564 In today's climate, culture and race is a topic that is either accommodated or resisted. As future or current educators, it is our job to make the environment and curriculum accommodating and relevant to our students. Indigenous people have survived through settler's attempts to destroy Indigenous' concept of self. It's now up to us to ensure we keep fighting for them and help them grow strong from this.]]> 2023-06-03 19:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613664564 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613670221 To learn about the history of the people who lived on the land before you, you must first know what tribes lived there. This is an interactive map that you can use to see what tribes lived where, languages, and treaties that defined the people before you. This is an excellent source to be used to start explorations into what tribes lived where students lived and to see just how many tribes there were in the past.]]> 2023-06-03 20:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613670221 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613671631 While many sources are based on a collection of resources, this one provides a personal account of what a female Native child went through while being forced into a boarding school. It is important to learn from personal accounts as then you can get a first person view of a situation or event. ]]> 2023-06-03 20:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2613671631 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614054562 While many Native Americans were forced into boarding schools, that did not stop some in fighting against this change. This article explains some of the ways they did work against colonists and their attempts to re-educate the Natives. ]]> 2023-06-04 18:09:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614054562 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614055562 This is an excellent video that provides a ton of context around Native American boarding schools and what led up to it, what happened during it, and some of the after effects. ]]> 2023-06-04 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614055562 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614056562 Many Indigenous children had to suffer through their time in the boarding schools. Even though they have grown up, the horrors and atrocities they faced still affects them to this day. This is a great video to help offer more perspectives on how harmful these boarding schools where to Indigenous students.]]> 2023-06-04 18:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2614056562 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615238647 It is important to ensure that we are acknowledging the accomplishments of everyone, not only white men. This article can be used to help to begin conversations around race and gender and how it isn't a hinder on one's capability to reach for the stars. ]]> 2023-06-05 22:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615238647 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615240503 This article talks about the interconnections between African Americans and Native Americans and colonists. It's important to talk and learn about these connections through history as both have suffered from white American oppression. By learning of these connections, we can teach students both were put into slavery and other similar oppressive actions.]]> 2023-06-05 22:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615240503 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615241448 Race and culture is often a topic that is addressed with resistance for various reasons. However, for students and people to get a better understanding of culture, we need to understand what they've been through, address stereotypes and falsehoods, and current issues around their culture. ]]> 2023-06-05 22:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615241448 dinomyles https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615244431 "Indigenous resistance can be summed up as Indigenous communities asserting and protecting their human and treaty rights while powerful white citizens, with the backing and authority of the state, attempt to stop them. "]]> 2023-06-05 22:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2615244431 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619954339 Modern education supports the values and priorities of dominant western views. In this article, it addresses that while social and emotional learning (SEL) has its qualities that support some of the values of Indigenous communities, it is short of addressing the inequalities rooted in institutional racism, such as in education. Transformative SEL "embodies cultural responsiveness and anti-racism to promote identity, agency, engagement, and sense of belonging for all children, thus is more likely to support Indigenous survivance" (Sun, Goforth, Nichools, Violante, Christopher, Howlett, Hogenson, Graham, 2022). In addition to this, the authors also suggest that pairing Transformative SEL with TribalCrit emphasizing Indigenous community rights fulfills culturally responsive schooling for Indigenous children.]]> 2023-06-10 19:01:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619954339 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619955375 In western views, education is viewed as an institution and less as the act of educating. However, throughout Michelle Bishop's article, she discusses what it means to be doing education through the 6 elements of Indigenous education sovereignty: Pattern thinking, Country, Time, Relationality, Intergenerational reciprocity, and Agency. In Indigenous education sovereignty, Bishop offers how all of these elements can operate in education today to restructure a system that currently does not value Indigenous values and the priority of educating that is purposeful and not for profit or power.]]> 2023-06-10 19:05:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619955375 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619961269 This article discusses the difference between Western education versus the Indigenous traditional education in addition to the values of knowledge that impact Indigenous students differently. As Western education lacks the relevant curriculum, support, and representation, Indigenous Traditional Education not only meets these expectations, but also provides a holistic view and practice in education that reconnects indigenous students to land, culture, community, and identities. ]]> 2023-06-10 19:28:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619961269 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619961721 When COVID-19 first impacted the world in 2019, it affected many people medically but also financially and socially due to isolation mandates to lessen the exposure and spread of COVID-19, it also directly impacted the quality of education for many students, especially Indigenous students. As this article focuses on the digital divide in Canada and how access to the internet is a vital human right, it is also one of tools for Indigenous survivance from language, community circles, and traditional storytelling.]]> 2023-06-10 19:30:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619961721 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619963386 The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project works towards revitalizing the Wampanoag Nation's language in education. Through instruction, after school activities, and classes available to children, adults, and elders, this is a "means of repairing the broken circle of cultural loss and pain. To be able to understand and speak our language means to see the world as our families did for centuries. This is but one path which keeps us connected to our people, the earth, and the philosophies and truths given to us by the Creator" (Smith, 2021).]]> 2023-06-10 19:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2619963386 mgonza141 https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2620023339 When answering this question, it is imperative to understand each part of the question. What is the history of the Indigenous communities? What challenges do the Indigenous communities experience? How does education fail to support Indigenous students? And, what roles do educators have in education, and what impacts that they have on their students? 

Throughout the process of answering this question, three themes arose to answer this essential question: Settler's Affect on Indigenous People, Indigenous Resistance Against Elimination and Their Survivance, and Public Schools and Indian Education: How We Are Accommodating Native Americans in Education Today. 

Going through these themes and articles, it becomes apparent that it is essential to go about it in this particular order because understanding why modern education fails Indigenous students stems from Western values and colonialist actions of assimilation to erase Indigenous people. The theme Indigenous Resistance Against Elimination and Their Survivance serves to signify the strength, power, and perseverance that Indigenous communities have in maintaining their presence, culture, and community in the world. Finally, in public schools and Indian education comes to tie into how educators can decolonize the Western values and practices that work to silence and erase Indigenous values through reframing the institution of education, the curriculum and topics we teach, and in addition to the ways in which we teach from understanding our biases to the teaching styles and pedagogies.

As educators, how can we support Indigenous struggles for decolonization? By being knowledgeable of the historical context of Indigenous communities and the negative impacts that not only occurred in the past but also the intergenerational trauma that then drives Indigenous communities to fight against erasure and to push through for their survivance. In addition to this, by understanding the Western values that worked towards erasing the Indigenous values, educators can find ways to incorporate inclusive and culturally responsive teaching to support Indigenous students, families, and communities. ]]> 2023-06-11 01:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dinomyles/EDST456/wish/2620023339