American Indian Programming Brooklyn Center STEAM
Core programming, k-12 In partnership with Osseo schools Drum and Dance & Language and Culture
Sugarbush trip, spring 2019
Events Past and ongoing: Upcoming: ● Annual Spring Powwow ● Our Home: Native Minnesota (with Osseo schools) ● Cooking class: Frybread ● College trips ● Ribbon Skirts class ● Sugarbushing ● Honoring our Seniors ● Birchbark Books
School Day Student participation: Curriculum development: GCST 1490: Dave Larsen American Mni Sota Makoce curriculum for 6th ● ● Indian Immersion Experience grade Social Studies course (with North Hennepin Books by and about Ojibwe or ● Community College) Dakota people in English HS to post-secondary support from curriculum 6-12 ● Zach Weaver Indigenous Representations ○ workshop at St. Kate’s Learning from Place: Bdote ● workshop
American Indian Minnesota Statute 124D.78 requires Minnesota district, charter, and Tribal Parent Advisory schools with 10 or more American Council Indian students to have an American Indian Parent Advisory Committee (AIPAC), and cites that school boards Brooklyn Center’s American Indian of districts must provide for the Parent Advisory Committee (AIPAC) maximum involvement of parents and is a vital link between parents, children enrolled in education grandparents, family, and caregivers programs, programs for elementary of American Indian students and and secondary grades, special Brooklyn Center Community education programs, and support Schools. services.
In-concurrence: 0 votes Non-concurrence: 9 votes Vote of Concurrence Jan. 8, 2020
Recommendations ❏ Need for adoption of district-wide curriculum, books, and resources around Native American culture and language ❏ Including training for teachers ❏ Need for more programming opportunities offered within the school day ❏ Recongnition of Native American Heritage Month ❏ Need for Ojibwe and Dakota language learning within the school day
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