Unit 1: Vocabulary from Readings 7

He is probably what you would consider a typical Indian kid. He was born and raised on the reservation.

Although you in Western society may argue that such a method serves to hinder motor-skill development and abstract reasoning, we believe it forces the child to first develop his intuitive faculties, rational intellect, symbolic thinking, and five senses.

Although you in Western society may argue that such a method serves to hinder motor-skill development and abstract reasoning, we believe it forces the child to first develop his intuitive faculties, rational intellect, symbolic thinking, and five senses.

He has played with abalone shells, pine nuts, iris grass string, and leather while watching the women make beaded jewelry and traditional native regalia.

Shapes, sizes, colors, texture, sound, smell, feeling, taste, and the learning process are therefore functionally integrated—the physical and spiritual, matter and energy, conscious and unconscious, individual and social.

He listened to his mother count each and every bead and sort out numerically according to color while she painstakingly made complex beaded belts and necklaces.

But if Wind-Wolf was not prepared for his first tentative foray into your world, neither were you appreciative of his culture.

But if Wind-Wolf was not prepared for his first tentative foray into your world, neither were you appreciative of his culture.

It is hard for him to make the appropriate psychic switch from the right to the left hemisphere of the brain when he sees the leaves turning bright colors, the geese heading south, and the squirrels scurrying around for nuts to get ready for a harsh winter.

When I ask him to go to an urban powwow or help me with a sacred sweat-lodge ritual, he says no because “that’s weird” and he doesn’t want his friends at school to think he doesn’t believe in God.

I don’t want him to be a dropout or juvenile delinquent or to end up on drugs and alcohol because he is made to feel inferior or because of discrimination.

Millions of dollars have been appropriated by Congress and are being spent each year for “Indian Education.”