What is an Educated Person Gathering Huckleberries Entering

What is an Educated Person? Gathering Huckleberries, Entering the Sweat Lodge, Re-telling Our Stories, as we Travel the Spokes and Hub of the Wheel. Rodney Frey 15 April 2015

Gathering the Huckleberries Strap on your Baskets for grad school, career, family, life’s challenges

Started with Sanford Eigenbrode from the Entomological Sciences, Mario Reyes from Business and Economics, Ryanne Pilgeram from the Social Sciences, Dan Bukvich from Music, Karen Launchbaugh from Range Management, Andy Kersten from History, How would you define their perspectives and academic disciplines?

Denver East High, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado Was I be prepared? Would I pick the Huckleberries needed? Would I have the competencies needed to begin my next journey?

The Huckleberries gathered from my formal education are of the “humanities species” (my discipline), which framed from my professional and personal experiences as an Ethnographer. With it, I’d journey into the world of Indigenous peoples, such as the Crow Indians of Montana and the Coeur d’Alene and Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. How would you define the Humanities? Who are the Indigenous Peoples?

The Humanities: Seeks to address the “big questions, ” doing so through an integration of multi-perspectives, with an application of an interpretative methodology that requires self-reflection, distinct from empirical scientific and social science methods. The Indigenous: http: //www. webpages. uidaho. edu/~rfrey/101 indigenous. htm

Crow Indian Reservation, followed by the Coeur d’Alene, Nez Perce and Warm Springs Reservations: Collaborative, Applied Projects Health Care Delivery Lewis and Clark Commemoration Natural Resources Damage Assessment Counseling Practices 4 th Grade Language Arts Curriculum Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change

Mentors and Guides: Tom and Susie Yellowtail of the Crow, Cliff and Lori Si. John of the Coeur d’Alene, Josiah and D’Lisa Pinkham of the Nez Perce, Rob and Rose Moran of the Chippewa and Warm Springs, and many others Providing another set of Huckleberries! Not part of my formal education

Storytellers: Cliff Si. John and Tom Yellowtail “To Swirl with Coyote and Chipmunk” and Heart Knowledge Burnt Face and Dasshússua A Huckleberry or Two

Cliff’s Sweat Lodge See that Lodge? Getting off the bench, go inside, participate See from the inside looking out Feel the heat, the sweat When your turn, what are you going to say, do? Another Huckleberry or Two

Tom’s Medicine Wheel: Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming Spokes Hub And another Huckleberry

Lives of Tom and Susie Yellowtail

Are you prepared, with the Huckleberries needed, for the unexpected bump in the road?

The Professional and Personal Interwoven: a son’s illness and a father’s pledge

The “Big C” – Challenges along the Journey Over lunch, Cliff tells me to trust Head Knowledge, my oncologists with their Chemo and Stem Cell Transplant

The “Big C” – Challenges along the Journey Cliff tells me to also pay attention to Heart Knowledge, the prayers of the Sundance.

Head and Heart Knowledge, Science and Indigenous Spirituality? Chemistry and Pulsating Feathers? Mutually Exclusive? What Huckleberries would I pull out of my basket?

And the Journey Continues Doctors and Nurses (Chemo and Stem Cell Transplant); AND Leonard Bends, Rose Moran, Jackie Yellowtail, Tommy Yellowtail, Janet Beck (Pulsating Feathers)

So what Huckleberries were shared from the Indigenous, that I placed in my basket?

Huckleberries Gained Baakáate “my child. ” “Be Attentive, ” an active listener, active participator, in what Others can offer you and, equally important, in One’s Self (reflection). Be willing to acknowledge and seek out your Mentors and guides. Baaéechichiwaau “re-tell one’s story. ” With courage, be able to Articulate and Speak out effectively to others. Re-telling one’s own story, and the stories of others. Díakaashik “sincerity. ” Cultivate Empathy, to travel the many spokes. Be skilled in Multi-perspectives (not just anchored to a single spoke). Know your Own Spoke, own discipline, with competency, but be able to travel the other spokes, other perspectives (divergent thinking). Tamálwit "the law, " the big picture. Cultivate ability to Integrate, to synthesis multi-perspectives together and work Collaboratively with others. By extension, be able to address the Bigger Picture, see the Entire Wheel with its many Spokes, and its Hub (convergent thinking). Té∙k’e, “to give and share with others, ” all in order to help others. Apply your Huckleberries to problem solving, in a desire to serve others. What are you going to do with that basket of Huckleberries? Maakuuxshiichíilish – Kw’lk’il Sqqi

And just how do they align with our University of Idaho Learning Outcomes?

University of Idaho Learning Outcomes Learn and integrate – Through independent learning and collaborative study, attain, use, and develop knowledge in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, with disciplinary specialization and the ability to integrate information across disciplines. Think and create – Use multiple thinking strategies to examine real-world issues, explore creative avenues of expression, solve problems, and make consequential decisions. Communicate – Acquire, articulate, create and convey intended meaning using verbal and non-verbal methods of communication that demonstrate respect and understanding in a complex society. Clarify purpose and perspective – Explore one’s life purpose and meaning through transformational experiences that foster an understanding of self, relationships, and diverse global perspectives. Practice citizenship – Apply principles of ethical leadership, collaborative engagement, socially responsible behavior, respect for diversity in an interdependent world, and a service-oriented commitment to advance and sustain local and global communities.

What is it that aligns the Indigenous Huckleberries with the Academic Leaning Outcomes? Empathy

And what Huckleberries have you Gathered and Seek to Gather? How would you define an educated person?