Healing the Land Culture: Schools

Culture: Schools

The 2006 Franklin County, PA Migrant Education Program

We recently participated in the Franklin County, PA Migrant Education Summer Program where we taught weekly on different environmental habitats in the Americas and Africa and how the Indigenous peoples interacted with those habitats.

We began our teaching sessions in the program by introducing our Native American culture to the students through dance, music, storytelling and presentation. Because the students also come from an indigenous North or South American culture, we wanted to present the importance to staying connected to culture.

With the primary curriculum focus being on habitats, we wanted to present our materials from a perspective differing from the other teachers, so we looked for ways to incorporate indigenous, culture traditions into our teaching, depending on the area.

Click on a week below to read about our program each week.

Week One | Week Two | Week Three | Week Four | Week Five

Click here for more pictures and information on our cultural presentations.