
American Indian Education Program
Monthly Newsletter - January 2022
Boozhoo District 196 Teachers!
This month's Indian Education Newsletter will focus on the MDE Arts & Music State Standards.
Background Photo of Christi Belcourt's The Wisdom of the Universe - featured in MIA's Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artist Exhibit
Anchor Standards and Strands, 2018 Minnesota Arts Standards
There are a handful of MN Art Standards that include Dakota and Anishinaabe perspectives and contributions. All of those standards are embedded in the Anchor Standard:CONNECT.
The CONNECT anchor standards focuses on the demonstration of understanding that artistic works influence and are influenced by personal, societal, cultural, and historical contexts, including the contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
Music Standards
1st Grade:
Sing, play instruments or listen to music from various cultures, including music from Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
6th Grade:
Explain ways that music is used to represent cultural identity, including Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
Tall Paul
TheWays.org
Halluci Nation / Hip Hop
Additional MUSIC Resources
Documentary on the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Indians (music is discussed at the 11:42 mark in the documentary)
How to Teach Native American Music in School Classroom / Video 2 (Native American Music in Elem..)
Decolonizing the Music Room / Supa Man Interview / Giving Cultural Context to Teaching Native American Music
Resources for Teaching the Music of Native American Peoples (from a MPS Music teacher)
Music Videos:
- Northern Cree Performance at the Grammys
- Prayers in a Song by Tall Paul (TheWays.org) – you can download lyrics and Mp3
- A Tribe Called Red – Electric Powwow music video (home website)
- Thomas X – REZOLUTION music video (Red Lake Nation)
Curriculum:
- North St. Paul’s Drum & Dance Curriculum
- MDE Indian Education Music & Dance Curriculum
- American Indian Music: More than Just flutes & Drums
- Your Guide to Understanding Powwows
Theatre Standards
3rd Grade:
Analyze connections between community, social issues (including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities) and other content areas to a work.
5th Grade:
Investigate historical, global and social issues expressed in a work, including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
6th Grade:
Select themes or social issues (including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities) and express them through a work.
7th Grade:
Incorporate other art forms to strengthen the meaning and conflict in a work with a particular personal, societal, cultural, global, or historical context, including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
8th Grade:
Research the context(s) of different theater works and connect them with personal, societal, cultural, historical or global issues, including contributions of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.
High School:
Determine how personal, societal, cultural, global, and historical contexts (including those of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities) affect creative choices for a work.
Anishinaabe Dibaajimowin
Indigenous Theater
Rhiana Yazzie
Marisa Carr
Larissa Fasthorse
A Red Face in the Crowd
Where the Pavement Ends
Mr. Boozhoo / Michael Lyons
In A Good Way
Storytelling Lessons
Visual Arts Standards
6th Grade:
Identify how art reflects changing times, traditions, resources, and cultural uses, including those of Minnesota American Indian tribes and communities.