Inspiration and values
Who or what has inspired you to pursue your program? What values/teachings does that person live by? Or how can you use your education as tool to live by that teaching?
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Sharing
Is there something from your culture that you have been working on or that you feel relates to what you are learning in your program or courses? If not how can you use the cultural item/process to explain a teaching or a personal story that relates to what you learned from the item or process. Example: Learning to cut fish at first did not seem difficult, until I tried hanging on to the slippery...
Read More Story and/or Song
Are there stories from your culture or a song that you relate to and why? Does this story or song relate to what you are learning in your program or in the course you are currently taking? Example: When raven stole the sun is a common Tlingit creation story. Raven stole the sun from a chief who was a wealthy man, by making himself into a pine needle. The chief's daughter went to the river to get...
Read More Cultural Identity Groups
Cultural identity refers to the many groups of people that we relate to and we feel that we belong to.This could refer to: ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, education, career, language, foods, generation, beliefs, social class, locality, history, and etc. An example of a cultural identity list might look like this: Tlingit, Alaska native, American, Alaskan, English, female, university...
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