Students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of creation story
2. Demonstrate knowledge of gender roles
3. Demonstrate spiritual nature of food through personal preparation, appropriate harvesting, preserving and showing appreciation for the gift.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of kinship systems
5. Demonstrate proper knowledge of cultural games, dances and ceremonies

1. Have the children tell the creation stories from their families.
2. Have elders come and tell creation stories and have the children draw pictures of the stories.
3. Tell both Christian and Traditional creation stories.
4. Through games tell how boys and girls learned to do traditional male and female tasks. (how they were rather than how they should be)
5. Show the magic of growth from seeds.
6. Have the children pick berries and fruits, using conservation and ceremonies.
7. Demonstrate making food (cider, peanut butter, butter)
8. Draw a family tree using kinship names.
9. Help students distinguish between genetic and social relations; kinship versus blood relations (this may be better for higher grades)
10. Use the American Indian Games book.

Students will be able to:

1. Knowledge of when diabetes became an epidemic
2. Basic knowledge of traditional medicine(s) related to diabetic condition
3. Basic knowledge of historical trauma and grief
4. Basic knowledge of how foods affect metabolism

1. Use stories from elders of how there was no diabetes when they were young.
2. Use the known stistics on the increase in diabetes both in the Indian and non-Indian populations.
3. Use testimonials on the use of teas from sage, and juniper berries.
4. Help create the understanding that diabetes is “caught” through a life stile. Traditional medicine and ceremonies help generate a healthy life stile.
5. Traditional medicine helps develop a Harmony with Self.
6. Traditional medicine helps develop an understanding of one’s body.
7. Help students write a tribal history.
8. Work with age appropriate nutrition.

Students will be able to:

1. Student will have knowledge of ways traditional medicine is used to prevent diabetes (i.e. Wiping of Tears Ceremony for Grief)
2. Students will have knowledge and uses of part of buffalo
3. Students will have knowledge of traditional foods and their benefits for a healthy lifestyle
4. Students will have knowledge of their indigenous values

1. (We interpreted “traditional medicine” as meaning life style.)
2. No cars or couches (lots of walking), low sugar meant no diabetes.
3. Identify local spiritual leader who can assist students in understanding ceremonies and the roles of each individual in the ceremonies.
4. Show buffalo robes.(also for younger students)
5. Have students witness a buffalo kill with associated ceremonies.
6. Students identify food plants.
7. Relate ceremonies and actions.

Students will be able to:

1. Students will have a knowledge of the rites of passage ceremony
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge of traditional roles of men and women
3. Students will have knowledge of traditional and modern methods of healing
4. Students will have knowledge of proper ways to prepare a traditional meal
5. Students will demonstrate secure personal identity.

1. Girls talk about Is-na-tie ceremony (menses)
2. Boys talk about Vision Quest, and Sun Dance.
3. IHS hospital visit, dialysis clinic visit, healer discussion.
4. Demonstration of Food preparation.
5. Tell the truth about Fry Bread.
6. Share personal values with others, in order to understand that people are different.
7. Respect for others.