Official JAG competency wording: Apply concepts related to living on your own in the “real world”
Category: Dreamwork
Source themes: independence, financial literacy, personal responsibility
Source: JAG Competencies Descriptions.docx.
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Reviewed OSEU and Wolakota interview connections
Q131 — Apply concepts related to living on your own in the “real world”
Explore Q131 · Lakota Economics - Stephanie Charging Eagle - OSEU #3 · OSEU 3
Reviewed teaching connection (Exploratory): The speaker offers a cultural perspective on work and self-sufficiency. It can frame discussion of earning and independent living, but does not teach budgeting, saving calculations, or living procedures.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
And economics, you know…when people talk about…some of them get a little carried away…and they say, “Well, we can’t be Lakotas because we don’t live in tipis or have buffaloes anymore.” And I’m like, “That’s not the concept.” The concept is that, economically, we had the buffalo. And that buffalo…we honored the spirit of the buffalo. We took care of it. We only took what we needed, just like the land. But now, we don’t have the buffalo, but we still have economics. So today, the buffalo no longer exists as our economy…or the main state of our economy. So what is? For many of us, it’s working. To be able to work, you have to acquire skills, education…whatever it takes for that. And so, now the concept of economics…self-sufficiency of every individual so they can help their family…their tiospaye…is still brought forward. The concept is still very much there. We are self-sufficient. But we make ourselves self-sufficient so that we can still help each other. And that is the concept of how you bring forward the concepts, the philosophy, to an ever-changing, dynamic society.
Learn About: What purpose does the speaker give for self-sufficiency beyond meeting an individual’s needs?
Learn From: What responsibility could earning an income help a person meet? Use an imagined example if you prefer.
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0194; video H0Ijmb71ieY; passage containing: self-sufficiency of every individual so they can help their family. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Q131 — Apply concepts related to living on your own in the “real world”
Explore Q131 · 75 Cents Per Hour - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #2 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy Colombe recalls summer café work, hourly pay, and paying weekly rent while attending school. This supports Q131 by inviting students to discuss work and housing responsibilities when living independently.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
In 1952, they let the liquor law loose. They turned the Indians loose to go ahead and drink. And my life started going downhill. My parents started drinking. And so in 1959, they died in a car accident…both of them…together. My mother died on her 50th birthday, and my dad died the next day. But he prepared me. We used to go fishing…and he’d talk to me…and he told me “These older kids…they don’t think…they don’t worry about you guys. If anything happens to me, you look out for the younger ones.” So when they died in 1959, I…since I was fourteen years old…I was working in Chamberlain at the Derby Cafe every summer…and there was a lady in Chamberlain, Mrs. Leiferman…would give us rooms to rent for five dollars a week. Minimum wage was like 75 cents. So I paid my rent every week and I stayed all summer long. Me and my sisters and my cousins…she took in all the Indians, you know.
Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of earning and independence? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?
Learn From: How could you discuss work and housing responsibilities when living independently? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0050; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBiENDezEiY; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Human Shaped Learning connection
Chapter 5: Relationship, Engagement, and Agency: A Learning Story
Suggested teaching connection: Suggested teaching connection for participation, based on Q131 competency. Give students a meaningful role in a shared task and let them make decisions about how to contribute.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 5, actual manuscript pp. 42–48; Agency Emerges from Trust
Chapter 25: Moving Forward—Creating Human-Shaped Learning Communities
Suggested teaching connection: Suggested teaching connection for shared ownership, based on Q131 competency. Invite students to shape a shared goal, choose responsibilities, and reflect on how the group learns together.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 25, actual manuscript pp. 180–186; chapter opening and conceptual discussion
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