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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native American from 1890 to the Present - Study Circles Online Conversation

Event Date

Monday, January 27, 2020 -
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
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Event Description

About the Study Circles Online Conversation
 
The Disproportionality Technical Assistance Network, or “The Network,” is offering a unique opportunity for all participating school staff, equity teams, and partners for continuing our personal and professional racial equity work, with a focus on the American Indian student experience. Join us in a Study Circles Online Conversation and the exploration the book, There There by Tommy Orange. Each online session will use Orange’s book as a foundation for the conversation while exploring the impact of the opportunity gap on our American Indian students in the state of Wisconsin.

The Study Circles Online Conversations help to address racial and ethnic barriers to student achievement and family involvement by engaging school staff, community members and partners in dialogue and problem solving.
 
About the Book
Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear--and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence--the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention.

In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.
 
Participant Outcomes
As a result of this Study Circles Online Conversation, participants will:
  • have an opportunity to read and discuss the selected book with other participants from across Wisconsin
  • engage in conversations with colleagues and explore multiple perspectives about American Indian studies and the education of American Indian students
  • address misconceptions and stereotypes of American Indian peoples, communities, and nations
Schedule
Orientation (required) | Monday, January 27, 2020 | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm via Zoom
Session #1 | Monday, February 17, 2020 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm via Zoom
Session #2 | Monday, March 9, 2020 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm via Zoom
Session #3 | Monday, March 30, 2020 | 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm via Zoom
 

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Training Format
Each Study Circles Online Conversation will consist of one 60-minute orientation session followed by three 1.5 hour discussion sessions.
 
These sessions will be a facilitated online conversation using the Zoom cloud video conferencing platform.

Contact

For questions related to registration or LEA status, contact:
Angie Balfe
Manager
Disproportionality Technical Assistance Network
Phone: (920) 236-0885

For content and program-related questions, contact:
David O'Connor
American Indian Studies Consultant
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Grant Director - Network for Native American Student Achievement and Early Childhood Tribal Project
Disproportionality Technical Assistance Network
Phone: (608) 267-2283