Level 4 – Advanced Practice (High School) | Tlingit Language Units | Cooperative Learning, Direct Instruction

Yaa at Wooneé-Lingít Aani Respect for Tlingit Land Kindergarten – Grade 12 Lesson Plans by David Katzeek Introduction For thousands of years, the Tlingit people had an educational system that taught them how to survive in an environment that was not too friendly. They had to learn how to live in harmony with the earth and all that was created. In order to accomplish this they had to develop an educations system that would help them succeed and they did. Anthropologists estimate that Tlingit people have lived in Southeast Alaska for 10,000 years or more. Their educational system was built on four primary pillars/corner posts based on the foundation of respect: •Lingít áwé wa.x’edéi kakgees.áax. You are a human being. You are to listen. The first corner post is that Tlingit people and all human beings have a very unique ability to learn to listen for a purpose. This was…