Ways of Seeing and Responding to a School in Santee Sioux Country
Using the example of the Santee Community Schools on the Santee Sioux reservation to examine the failure of external interventions in addressing Indigenous educational needs.
Using the example of the Santee Community Schools on the Santee Sioux reservation to examine the failure of external interventions in addressing Indigenous educational needs.
Art History Thesis (BA) -- University of Colorado, 2018.
Examines boarding school through the lenses of the student's descendants recollections of their families experiences. Through these means the stories will continued to be told once there are no more living alumni.
Reflects on the twenty years since the implementation of the Wisconsin Act 31, requiring schools to teach about Indigenous culture and tribal sovereignty, which the State still struggles to implement.
Examines the 2004 legislation that required Indigenous history for K-12 curriculum and what it can mean for self-determination and sovereignty.