Commitment to Provide Indigenous Pedagogies:

The study of Indigenous knowledge and teaching practices is key to our program’s mission, and we strive to provide tools and examples for our students to model and utilize. This page provides online resources and examples of Indigenous pedagogies designed by our students while participating in our program.

Online Resources:

• As I Remember It Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
• Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience
• Learning Bird Annotated Bibliography
• Capt. Richard H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans.

Northwest Indian Language Institute Summer Institute Projects:

The Northwest Indian Language Institute works with Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest and across the continent helping to provide resources for language revitalization. Every summer the NILI Summer Institute is held on the campus of University of Oregon. At the Summer Institute, Sapsik’ʷałá students as well as other language teachers and language revitalization practitioners take courses to help them learn pedagogy for teaching Indigenous languages.

Indigenous language pedagogy is an important part of our program because it helps students gain an understanding of how the language of a community is tied to the culture, and that languages are the lens through which a person views the world. In addition it gives our future teachers methods for teaching language that might be more culturally relevant for a Native community as opposed to methods that are used for more prominent world languages.

Student Projects:

Nicole Downey: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/NILI-Final-Project-Card-Game-Nicole-Downey.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Jackson Lawrence:

Cecelia Koskela:[embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/NILI-SI-Final-2.pdf” width=”100%” download=”all” viewer=”google”]

Jacob Billy: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/Jacob-billy’s-Giphys-to-teach-basic-greetings-or.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Sia Aronica: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/Ichishkíin-making-flashcards.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Olivia Sparks: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/Final-NILI-Olivia-Sparks.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]

Chay Raymond: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/sapsikwala/files/2019/11/Go_Fish_Chinuk_Wawa.pptx” download=”all” viewer=”google” ]