Indian Education: Shannon D. Assignment #4c.

Indian education has become an important part of the curriculum in schools today. Whereas, in previous years Indian education took a rain check compared to the history of Euro-Americans. Being that there are a number of Indian Reservations in the state of Montana the integration of Indian education is important to today’s youth. There are many different areas that Indian Education can be incorporated into the classroom. For example, several Indian cultures used sign language to communicate with other tribes that did not speak the same language. For an elementary classroom, students could create their own form of sign language and work on developing an efficient way of communicating with one another without speaking. Also Indian Education can be used in art curriculum. Some Indian cultures used hieroglyphics to tell a story or leave messages to others that would soon be following them. Each students could create their own hieroglyphics to tell a story that is important to them or even depict a dream the recently had.
In class we have been discussing Indian educations and exploring ways to integrate Indian education and technology. Each group did many different projects that incorporated Indian education and the use technology to create a lesson to share with the rest of class. There were a lot of information shared by each group and a lot to learn from each presentation. I learned that each reservation in Montana has its own source of economy such as, a marker company and casinos. I did not previously know this information. My group did our project on Indian sign language; I did not realize that despite having very different languages the tribes had a way of communicating. Even as a college student , I have not been introduced to as much Indian education that I would have liked to have been. Therefore, I believe that it is very important to make Indian education an important part of curriculum.