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Tribal education directors and the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition would like to see Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings be 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
In the 1990s a dispute between the tribe and the state led to the reservation's reduction to its current size. The state had issued a permit for a new landfill to be built on land the tribe argued was on the reservation, based on its original boundaries, and thus the landfill had to meet federal standards, which it did not. It sued the state in ...
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. Officials said changes were made to ...
In 2016, the Oceti Sakowin groups and allies protested the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would threaten the Missouri River, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation's water supply. The protests led to the #NoDAPL movement. The youth-led movement raised awareness across social media and garnered non-Native support for the protests. [31]