Learning How to Learn
Level 4 – Advanced Practice (High School) | Tlingit Language Units | Inquiry-Based, Direct Instruction
“Drink from the Vessel of Traditional Knowledge” Goldbelt Heritage Foundation / 2012 Award # 90NL0460/02 from Administration for Native Americans “Tlingit Flowing Through Generations: A Region-Wide Approach to Language Revitalization” 1 Shtoo.atgagiltoow Learning How to Learn Introduction For thousands of years, the Tlingit people have had an educational system that taught them how to survive in a harsh environment. They have had to learn how to live in harmony with the earth and all that was created. In order to accomplish this, they have developed an educational system that has helped them succeed. Anthropologists estimate that the Tlingit people have lived in Southeast Alaska for 10,000 years or more. The educational system is built on four primary pillars/corner-posts based on the foundation of respect: Lingít áwé wa.é kaa x’éide kakGees.áax. You are a human being. You are to listen. The first corner-post is that Tlingit people, and all…
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