Augustana College is pleased to grant
3 semester hours of undergraduate credit
for
EDUC 359 Lakota Life Today and as History
July 18-22, 2011
Herrick, SD and surrounding area

Proposed Itinerary (changes announced at workshop take precedence over itinerary stated here, field trips are subject to weather and road conditions):

Our SD Humanities Teacher Institute will be a 5 day conference featuring 4 days of Humanities presentations, scholarly discussions and field trips.  The final day will provide a culmination of all experiences.  Participants will engage in round-table conversations facilitated by a Native American Studies educator, who will help them uncover meaning from their experiences that they can take home with them to their classrooms.  The goals are to provide new experiences through lecture and experiential learning.  Participants will be able to physically and culturally describe Native sites, creating a better understanding of their significance. Finally, meaning will be put to each experience through journaling and discussion.

  Monday: 8am Breakfast, 9am welcome, Presentation:  How Todd Lost His County (and found it again out west).  This power point presentation gives the local history of John B.S. Todd in relation to the greater history of the state and the United States, including his entry with the Harney Expedition against the Sioux, his writing of the 1858 Treaty in Minnesota and the eventually naming of Todd County at the Rosebud Reservation. 10am handout maps and preview our first field trip, drive to Fort Randall, visit Fort Randall Post Chapel and military cemetery.  Information will be presented on the fort’s historical significance and its most famous occupant, Sitting Bull, by Wagner Area Historical Society.  Enjoy noon Meal at Fort Randall Casino, then talk to a Casino representative about the Casino’s role in modern Native American life, culture, and economy.  Drive to Marty, the headquarters of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, which has been located here, on the east bank of the Missouri River since Todd helped write the Treaty of 1858. Visit the Marty Catholic Indian Mission Church, drive to Greenwood to the Monument of the Treaty of 1858 and the gravesite of Struck by the Ree, whom Merriweather Lewis announced would grow up to be a friend of whites. Our Yankton Sioux Reservation visit ends with a tour of their buffalo ranch.   At approximately 4pm we will head back to Herrick, on the way stopping at spot where the Keya Paha River joins Niobrara River, a landmark designation in the 1858 Treaty.  Around 7pm, supper will be served at the TeePee Café in Bonesteel.

Tuesday:  8am breakfast, 9am presentation:  What Happened After Whetstone? This power point presentation documents the basic chronological locations of Spotted Tail, Swift Bear and Milk from 1869 to 1875.   9:30 South Dakota Humanities Scholar Joanita Kant of Brookings offers her presentation:  Quill and Beadwork of SD’s Sioux Indians. This program shows how beads and porcupine quills were used from the time of Christopher Columbus to the present. The focus is their use among the Sioux.  Immediately following her will be a display and presentation of local bead artisan Judy Hanson.  Judy was taught to bead the old way, from her grandmother Geraldine Yellow Eyes at Milk’s Camp.  For our field trip, we will drive ten miles to the 99^th meridian, the longitude that formed the border of the Great Sioux Nation from the land opening of the east 1/3 of Gregory County in 1892 to the western third’s opening in 1904.  We’ll visit the new round UCC church, as well as the 1903 Episcopal Church that Milk’s children had placed on the north bank of Ponca Creek on his allotment after his death.  Chief Milk’s great-x-4 granddaughters (one lives on the allotment today) will provide the tour of this church and the Episcopal cemetery where Chief Milk is buried.  We will also visit the former Congregational Church on the south bank of the Ponca and its cemetery (where one of Red Cloud’s daughters is said to be buried), Milk’s Camp Day School where the Indian Agent was shot in 1902 and the Catholic Cemetery south of Milk’s Camp.  Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Milk’s Camp Community member Judy Hanson will show old photos, star quilts, and lead participants in a mini-bead project. Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Milk’s Camp Community member Brandon Andrews will demonstrate traditional artwork in a new form:  tattoos.  Supper will be Indian tacos served by Judy and her family at the Milk’s Camp Day School pow-wow site.

Wednesday:  9am drive to Mission, SD.  At 10:30am we will drive through Antelope Community, on the eastern edge of town and contrast this with the Milk’s Camp Community.  At 10:45 visit and tour of Heritage Center at Sinte Gleska University, noon lunch at Pizza Place. At 12:30, we will drive to Rosebud, the Headquarters of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the location of Spotted Tail’s final camp.  There will be a dance and singing demonstration by Shane and Noella Red Hawk.  We’ll talk to tribal tourism representative John Spotted Tail about history of Rosebud, and hear from Charlie Moe of Salt Camp Cabins on what it means to run a bed and breakfast on the Rosebud Reservation.  At 3:30, we’ll drive to St. Francis, arriving at 4pm to visit the German-style St. Francis Mission Church and Beuchel Memorial Museum.  At 5pm, we’ll visit a sweat lodge (possibly Albert White Hat’s) and a Sundance site.  We’ll picnic for supper in the park along the Little White River, then drive home.

Thursday:  9Am  South Dakota Humanities Speaker presentation Bob Kolbe, antique postcards.  Bob’s impressive collection of antique Native American postcards includes some from the Bonesteel area.  10:30 Local historian Jack Broome will be walk-on guide as we drive to Whetstone Bay of the Missouri River, the site of the former Whetstone Agency on Highway 1806 (named for the year of Lewis and Clark’s trek down the Missouri), as well as former townsites of Wade, Day and Lucas.  We’ll visit Jack Sully’s grave (he was married to a Native American woman and was one of the few white men in the territory prior to 1904).  We’ll see a Spirit Mound near Burke Lake. Back by 5 or 6pm, participants will have a chance to print their own T-shirt with tattoo-inspired design (see Tuesday’s schedule).  The evening ends at the former Catholic Church in Herrick and we’ll contrast it with the Catholic Mission Church in Marty.

Friday:  9am Ronette Rumpca, Curator of Interpretation at the South Dakota State Historical Society Museum will bring kits on Buffalo and the Plains Indians, and Dakota, Nakota, Lakota Life and do a presentation for the Teachers’ Institute. This will give participants an opportunity to see the kits and do some of the activities.  Then they can bring the information back to their classrooms all over the state and in the future be more likely to access State Historical Society resources.

Rumpca’s presentation will be followed by a roundtable discussion on how to tie information into classroom.  What have we learned and how can we use it?  A discussion will address developing activities based on the workshop and integrating them into existing curriculums and content standards.  At this time, participants should identify resources that they have in their own community that could be utilized as fieldtrips; also who are the people that could be guests in a classroom who live in their community.

Participants can expect to be on their way home by noon.

Teachers from all over the state will benefit from this workshop in many ways, first by becoming aware of the complexity and conflict of our state’s history.  Secondly, when participants become aware of the many connections that tie present day situations to our historic past, they will begin to understand the relationships that exist all around us.  Additionally, participants will realize the many resources available in one small area to help untangle this integral part of all South Dakotan’s identity, the knowledge translates to their own regions of the state.  So often we think of ourselves as a small state with small resources, but South Dakota is a state of abundance.  Getting out and seeing and hearing what is all around us is a powerful way to get out of the rut of what we think we know and to really learn. Our area of the state is just one tiny segment of all South Dakota has to offer, but from here we can tell the story of Lewis and Clark, the Dakota/Nakota/Lakota, the  Rosebud Reservation, and what happened to generation of our family and neighbors.  From this week-long experience, participants will be more attuned to the cultural differentials, conflicts and treasures all around in each of their own sectors of the state.   

Our itinerary provides for learning on a variety of levels, through the simple act of traveling to sites previously unknown, through listening to experts, and through meeting local people.  Perhaps one of our most important things to learn is how history affects people emotionally and socially for generations.  Our participants will meet real people working to keep their history relevant and alive.  Our speakers are there to make their presentations, but as they do so, workshop participants will come face to face with the social benefits and difficulties faced by Native Americans. 

All of these experiences will only truly be given meaning when we process the events and develop insight, context and relevance.  The hands-on discovery and experiential learning of the workshop will be complemented by times for group discussions, comments and conversations.  Quiet times will be set aside throughout the week for reflective journaling.  This journaling will be integral in each participant measuring their growth and learning.  It will be an activity that we start with so that individual participants understand their own feelings, knowledge, and experiences about the American Indian that they bring with them.......and then respond to the week’s experiences as well as record plans for interpretation of experiences in their individual education systems.  The journals will be prepared in advance with specific questions and guidelines for interpreting experiences.
 Friday’s component for actual work in adapting learning to use is critical.  At this time, teachers will come up with action to be taken when they have gone home.

An added benefit will be relational. Participants will come away from the week with a new network of educational support and perhaps some new perspectives.