Redwood Area School District #2897

Monday, October 12 is Indigenous People's Day. In all classes at RVHS, students will be engaging in purposeful lessons to understand the importance of this day. Here is a list of those lessons:

Ferrier (PE): Discuss the impact of Native American culture and athletes in sports
throughout history

Heiling: World History - Hakas, US History - Native Americans in WWII

Berning (English 10): Partner research of a Minnesota tribe and their positive qualities that relate to our Friendship Short Story unit

Slander (Health): Native American Pioneers in Medicine

Klein: Compare/Contrast traditional Dakota and Anishinaabe STEM technology with modern technology

M Hegg (Industrial Tech): Traditional Lacrosse sticks and Steam Bending

Heltemes (FACS): Foods for living - frybread making & history, freshman acadmey - regalia sewing video, Design - regalia information , Relationships - Indigenous book review

Mertens:World History - Hakas, College Geography - mapping of tribes in Minnesota, College Psychology - indigenous psychology concepts

W Hegg: English 9 and English 12 - listening to an interview and explicating the poem "End of the Beginning" by Anishinaabe poet Jim Northrup and connecting to previous reading (English 9 - "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" by Leslie Marmon Silko, English 12 - "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold)

Uhlenkamp: The History of the American Indian Movement (AIM)

Steve: Chem: Indegenous Origins of Maple Syrup AP Physics: Dakota Moon and Star history Forensic Science: Forensic Anthropology and the Ethics of Ancestral Identification

Krinke: Video about how influencers are killing a sacred tradition

Shouse-Klassen: Readings on exploring author's identities and indigenous business owners

Cilek: AP Biology and Biology - Smithsonian Leech Lake Ojibwe Wild Rice Environmental Lesson. Zoology - Dakota Language Animal posters.

Walia: Science 9: Smithsonian Akwesasne Mohawk Ash Tree Environmental Lesson.

Wilson: (Math): Star Quilt Activity

Dagel: (Spanish): prehistoric and contemporary indigenous groups in Latin America + language carryovers

Beske: Circle of Courage and how it impacts student learning

Thompson (Math): Woven Geometry: The art of the Cherokee Basket and creating patterns used Wampum belts with beads.

D Kaupang: Info. text article on the return of remains to the White Earth Nation of children who died at boarding schools. Students will annotate the article and complete a comprehension quiz.

Orren (Ag): Medicine Wheel Garden Exploration

Maddock (Ag): Hunting and processing Nature

Zimmer (Math): Woven Geometry: The art of the Cherokee Basket and creating patterns used Wampum belts with beads.

Sommers: Geography: Mni Sota Makoce and its people U.S History: Native Americans in WWII Dakota Studies: Indian Removal Act

Poe (Gov): Tribal sovereignty explained - Chinook Indian Nation

Wenisch (Drones): What it means to be a Sovereign Nation

Steffl (Art): Native photographers