Story & Art
- Saint Mary's CELT Event: Reclaiming Power Through Storytelling with Leya HaleRSVP at the link. Virtual event, Tuesday, November 30, 12-1pm. In celebration of Native American Heritage month, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching is proud to partner with the Office of Inclusion and Human Dignity to welcome Leya Hale (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné), award-winning producer for Twin Cities PBS. Join Ms. Hale as she explores the power of storytelling to help Indigenous communities reclaim their power and enable the next generation to embrace their role in shaping the world of tomorrow.
- OrigiNativesA public, digital archive of original digital stories from Native America
- The WaysStories on culture and language from Native communities around the central Great Lakes
- American Indians in Children's LiteratureDr. Debbie Reese (Nambé Pueblo) provides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.
- A new Native art installation, “Never Homeless Before 1492,” challenges the origins of Native homelessness in Minneapolis (Sahan Journal, Oct. 2021)"Courtney Cochran invited community participation for her new installation. The painted panels flank the Wall of Forgotten Natives, an encampment of unhoused people that rose up in 2018."
- Hearts of Our People: Native Women ArtistsExplore the landmark exhibition celebrating Indigenous women artists.
Christi Belcourt (Michif), The Wisdom of the Universe, 2014, acrylic on canvas, Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Purchased with funds donated by Greg Latremoille, 2014, 2014/6. © Christi Belcourt. Image from Hearts of Our People exhibit (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Language
- Learning a new language can help us escape climate catastrophe (Vice, 2021)"The suppression and destruction of Indigenous languages, as well as global English dominance, is a core part of environmental destruction."
- A Minneapolis school is immersing students in both Dakota and Ojibwe (MPR, 2019)The immersion experience at Bdote Learning Center helps its students reclaim Dakota and Ojibwe language.
- Minneapolis/St. Paul in Dakota and OjibweLearn the Indigenous names for the lakes, rivers, and other natural features of the Twin Cities area.
- Dakota language resourcesAlphabet, basic phrases, Dakota/English dictionary, and more!
- Dakota & Ojibwe language programs at the University of Minnesota"You can be a part of the global indigenous movement to revitalize indigenous languages and culture—because all languages transmit a valuable perspective of the world. The Dakota and Ojibwe languages, like many other indigenous languages in the US, have become endangered due to the effects of boarding schools and other policies that prohibited their use. In 2009, it was estimated that there were 678 first-language speakers of the Ojibwe language and only five first-language speakers of the Dakota language in Minnesota."
Decolonizing Foreign Language Education: The Misteaching of English and Other Colonial Languages by Call Number: 428.0071 D29ISBN: 9781138320697Publication Date: 2019-01-09Decolonizing Foreign Language Education interrogates current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by acclaimed critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes cutting-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to rigorously challenge the marginalization of foreign language education and the displacement of indigenous and non-standard language varieties through the reification of colonial languages. Each chapter confronts the hold of colonialism and imperialism that inform and shape the relationship between foreign language education and literary studies by asserting that a critical approach to applied linguistics is just as important a tool for FL/ESL/EFL educators as literature or linguistic theory.
