Indigenous Perspective; Sharing History and Culture - PARTNERED WITH CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

PARTNERED WITH

  Indigenous Perspective;     CENTER FOR TEACHING
                              AND LEARNING

Sharing History and Culture   FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Funding Acknowledgement

The session was supported by the Faculty Project Grant
                    2021-2022
  (e-Learning to Advance Racial and Ethnic Diversity
             Friendly University Initiative)

Moderator
Suk-hee Kim, Ph.D., COI, MSW, is an
Associate Professor & Academic Affairs
Diversity Faculty Fellow (selected) in the
College of Health and Human Services’
School of Social Work at Northern Kentucky
University. Dr. Kim is a Principal Investigator
for the e-Learning to Advance Racial and
Ethnic Diversity Friendly University Initiative.

Speaker
Dr. Anne Sahingoz, Assistant Professor, joined NKU in 2021. She earned
her Doctorate in Nursing Practice from Walden University in 2016. She
also holds a Master’s in Nursing Science and Education from Chamberlian
University in 2013. Dr Sahingoz currently teaches in the Graduate Program
in the School of Nursing. She newly serves on the DEI University committee
at NKU
She has been a nurse for 19 years and a nurse educator for 17 years. She
is interested in enhancing cultural diversity in Nursing and serves as the
Native American Mentor for students who are interested in the Health and
Human Sciences career path through the Kentucky Native American
Employment and training program.
Dr. Sahingoz works to eliminate water inequity and engages in
opportunities of justice to restore the availability of clean drinking water to
households in need, because water is a fundamental right and health
necessity to peoples of all nations.

Indigenous
Perspective;
Sharing
History and
Culture

Introduction
  yá'át'ééh
The goodness in me,
sees the goodness in
you.

                       (Whiting, 2018)

Northern Kentucky
Native-Land.ca   University- Aerial: View

                                        (Ariel View NKU, 2022)

A Diverse People

                                  • 600 Federally
                                   recognized tribes

                                 • Many more non-
                                     recognized
                                        tribes

            (Grand entry 2018)

The Apache

             UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1906: (Photo by Buyenlarge)

Gran Apacheria

Governance
                Iroquois Confederacy Wampum
                              Belt

         Autonomy    GREAT LAW OF PEACE
               • The first draft of the
                  Constitution
               • “We the People”, ancient
                  indigenous phrase
               • Great Law formed the bases
                  of the Constitution
               • 1998 Congress passes
                  resolution

What’s in a name?
  Merciless
    “NDE”, meaning the People

            Hostile

                      Savage

The Western Expansion

Legends

Reservations

Kill the Indian-
Save the Man

1887 Dawes Act
• Dissolution of Native
  American Tribes a
  legal entities
• Land was distributed
• Assimilation
  to individual
  members
• Indoctrination
• Parental
  alienation

The Indian
Relocation Act

    1956

Sacred Circle

                Circle of Life
                Medicine Wheel

Land – Mother Earth

 “We, the great mass of the people
 think only of the love we have for
 our land, we do love the land
 where we were brought up. We will
 never let our hold to this land go,
 to let it go it will be like throwing
 away (our) mother that gave (us)
 birth.”. – Letter from Aitooweyah
 to John Ross, Principal Chief of
 the Cherokee.

Why Do We Dance?

 1. Social
 Only
 1883  Adults
        –American
           Indigenous
               And
 1978
  Children
 2.     -   and
    Sacred practices
            Ceremony
 Elders
 religious
 Indian
  Young Religious
          Adults now
 forbidden.
 Freedom
  included inAct
  Ceremony.

Significance of Hair

Service
1. Activism to protect sacred
   places, and the environment.

2. Elderly, and most vulnerable
   members.

3. Raise awareness and
    support.

4. Protecting the land of
   our ancestors

American
History is
Indigenous   “History cannot give us a program for the
History      future, but it can give us a fuller
             understanding of ourselves, and our
                   We     Are
                  Ya’at’eeh,
                        We      a
                              are  Proud
                                   Questions?
                                     resilientPeople
             common humanity, so that we can better
             face the future.”

                          – Robert Penn Warren

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Q/A/Discussion

Thank you for your participation!
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Suk-hee Kim at
                      kims16@nku.edu