Some of the areas and topics that can be covered in a Residency:

·        Native American Names - the understanding of Native American names, origins and translations.

·        Native American linguistics - teaching of the Lakota language, Native American words in  the American language, place names, origins of words and how they’ve changed over the years, idioms and phrases, the naming of America and place names, alga-native languages.

·        Songs - structure and meanings, ceremonial and social songs, different instruments used, teaching of songs.

·        Native American mythology - creation stories from different tribes, animal powers, totems, lessons through stories.

·        Native American pictographs - examples, materials used, similarities around the world, buffalo robe winter counts.

·        Dances - learning to dance different dances, dance styles of different tribes and the meanings behind the dances, costumes.

·        Traditional tools (household and/warfare) - what they were made from, how they were used, examples of authentic tools (eg: hairbrushes, awls, flint, shields, knives, spears, face paint, feathers).

·        Homes - different types of homes used by different tribes (eg: plains, woodlands, southwest, northwest) and furnishings.

·        Native American Sign Language - learn to speak in sign, origins, video of B&W silent film depicting several different chiefs of different tribes speaking in sign to each other.

·        Native American contributions to the world - foods, medicines, words, fighting styles.

·        Spirituality - monotheistic vs. polytheistic, ceremonies, sweat lodges, pipes, peyote.

·        Native American math - Geometry, Mayan numbers, nature mathematics.

·        Native American government - blending of structure and ideas to the American democracy.

·        Native American crafts - make a variety of different crafts (eg: dream catchers, rain-sticks, cornhusk doll), bead work, quill work, materials used, traditional and modern.

·        Native American games - guessing games (hand game, ata-a-kut, l-ou-tin, pu-in, hiding the disks), ball games (lacrosse, hoop and javelin, double ball), hazard games (plum stone, pa-tol-stick)

·        Modern Native Americans

Residencies consist from one day to several weeks depending on the schools interest and requirements.

All subjects can be made age appropriate. 

We also custom make each residency to the individual schools/classroom/teachers needs.

For prices and availability available on request..