Why Isn’t This Taught? - Whitney Rencountre - OSEU #5

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05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0094. Imported source record; individual Elder status and tribal affiliation are not inferred.

Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections

H79 — Demonstrate the ability to learn from past experiences

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Whitney Rencountre recalls learning more history in college and his family’s relocation following flooding by the Big Bend Dam. This supports H79 by inviting students to reconsider past experiences through new information.

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.

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of history and relocation? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you reconsider past experiences through new information? 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-0094; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5eYs5lE5TQ; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.

G41 — Apply critical thinking skills

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Whitney Rencountre recalls learning more history in college and his family’s relocation following flooding by the Big Bend Dam. This supports G41 by inviting students to ask what historical information has been omitted.

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.

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of history and relocation? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you ask what historical information has been omitted? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

H74 — Demonstrate an eagerness to learn new responsibilities or improve current responsibilities

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Whitney Rencountre recalls learning more history in college and his family’s relocation following flooding by the Big Bend Dam. This supports H74 by inviting students to seek further learning beyond an initial account.

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.

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of history and relocation? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you seek further learning beyond an initial account? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

K107 — Differentiate between opinion and fact

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Whitney Rencountre recalls learning more history in college and his family’s relocation following flooding by the Big Bend Dam. This supports K107 by inviting students to separate remembered experience from claims needing other evidence.

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.

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of history and relocation? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you separate remembered experience from claims needing other evidence? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

Q130 — Demonstrate understanding of social and cultural diversity

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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Whitney Rencountre recalls learning more history in college and his family’s relocation following flooding by the Big Bend Dam. This supports Q130 by inviting students to understand how a community’s history affects present perspectives.

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.

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place.

Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of history and relocation? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?

Learn From: How could you understand how a community’s history affects present perspectives? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.

Interview transcript

Growing up on the reservation on Crow Creek, you know, I didn't learn a lot about the history of our ancestors. I didn't learn a lot of what took place of this, you know, the information that's in this curriculum that you're talking about. In fact, I didn't learn about that until I went to college. I mean, I learned, I learned the basic information from my grandparents and you can see and you can tell how our lives used to be long ago. You know, we used to live, you know, in Fort Thompson, we used to live by the river. You know, we used to use so much of that, but then when the Big Bend Dam came, it flooded us and so we had to move up to another place. So, it's like we were constantly moving and adjusting, but if we're not, if we don't know the true history and the facts of what took place, it really, really kind of, it makes it very difficult for us to, when we finally do learn the information, then it's, we ask ourselves, why isn't this taught? Why, why don't we learn this in our, in our classrooms or why, why isn't this something that is available to us? Because in reality, in our South Dakota, in our classrooms and nationally, I mean all over the world really, but nationally here in the United States, the power belongs in the hands of the people that commissioned the history books that really teach these in the classrooms. So, they have that influence, just like mainstream culture. So, when a student or a young man finally learns and, and they say, you know, this, so the Black Hills was given to our people via treaty, 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, but then it was taken away, Black Hills Act. Why isn't this taught to us? Why, why isn't this, why isn't this more open information for us to learn and, and then we can maybe help us to get to a better place in terms of coming to terms with that. And then maybe we can, maybe if individuals with the power kind of saw that our history has some issues, but we can kind of, if we acknowledge those issues, maybe we can move forward in a better way as a, as a society, you know, so that, that's important.