Re: Teaching on Native American Reservations in SD

Netha

Posted on 6/29/09

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On 6/18/09, Carime wrote:
> Sammie,
> I know your posting on Native American reservations in South
> Dakota is dated but I was wondering if you ever made it there
> to teach. I have done extensive research on reservations and
> am currently wrapping up my thesis on language reclamations
> programs specifically on Pine Ridge Reservation. I would
> love to make it out there to teach as well. Would like to
> hear your experience.
> Thanks
> Carime
Carime,

Good Luck- I hope you make it. I too am a special education
teacher and have just recently discovered that it may be my
destiny to teach on a reservation ( I have an unexplainable
desire to do so). I have begun to study the Cherokee language
(since that is my maternal ancestry) and am very interested in
native language reclamation. Since you have completed extensive
research on reservations, I would like to know if there is a
need for teachers on reservations if so which ones and would
they want a "wapsituk"like me? Thanks, Netha

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