Native American Heritage Month 2021
Breck recognizes and celebrates November as Native American Heritage Month. This month gives our school community an opportunity to do much-needed narrative change work, to learn about the culture and history of Indigenous peoples in the United States, and to grow in our allyship with the original peoples of this land.
Our Chapel theme, The Way of Reciprocity inspired by the book Braiding Sweetgrass, has offered a strong foundation for learning for all of our community members.
This has come from our students sharing their stories during the Indigenous Peoples’ Day Chapel in Middle School, and a faculty professional development seminar at Bdote taught by Ethan Neerdaels and Ramona Kitto Stately. We also recognized the beginning of this important month in Upper School Chapel this morning sharing Ramona’s message to faculty when she stated as an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Nation, “We have been here for 12,000 years. We will not let the last 150 define us.” The US Chapel continued with Dr. Baker answering the four traditional questions Dakota people ask when meeting someone new.
- Who are you?
- Where are you from?
- Who are your people?
- What are your dreams?
May these questions inspire you today. For more resources check out the links below:
- Understanding Native Minnesota
- IllumiNative
- Ramona Kitto Stately and Rebecca Crooks-Stratton (TO) InterviewWe are Still Here-MN
- Reclaiming Native Truth: A Project to Dispel America’s Myths and Misconceptions
- Why Treaties Matter
- Place of Power: Bdote
- Native Skywatchers
- American Indian Children’s Literature Review
- Honor the Earth
- First Nations Kitchen
- Stories I didn’t know
- Do All Indians Live in Tipis
- Everything you want to know about Indians but were too afraid to ask
- An Indigenous People’s History of the United States *youth version
- Mni Sota Makoce
- Original Local
- The Other Slavery
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