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Three tribal education directors, and a representative of the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition, would like to see the proposed Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings standards be a required ...
The essential understandings are a set of standards approved in 2018 for teaching students about Native American culture and history. Survey says nearly two-thirds of South Dakota educators use ...
Only 45% of teachers are teaching required standards on Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, according to a new survey by the DOE.
The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (/ s uː / SOO; Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ [oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ]) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.
Seven Sioux tribes formed an alliance, which they called Oceti Sakowin or Očhéthi Šakówiŋ ("The Seven Council Fires"), [3] consisting of the four tribes of the Eastern Dakota, two tribes of the Western Dakota, as well as the largest group, the Lakota (often referred to as Teton, derived from Thítȟuŋwaŋ – "Dwellers of
Long Fox, To-Can-Has-Ka, Tachana, Yankton Sioux, 1872. The tribe's reservation is the Yankton Indian Reservation, established in 1853 in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.The tribe has a land base of 36,741 acres (148.69 km 2). [9]
Social studies standards. ... Changes released by the DOE included the removal of more than a dozen references to the Oceti Sakowin, which is the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota, collectively. ...
A Contrary, in some Native American cultures, is a person who adopts behavior deliberately the opposite of other tribal members. They play roles in certain ceremonies, as well as in the social structures of some communities.