Grants and projects mark the conclusion of the tribe’s Understand Native Minnesota campaign Prior Lake, Minn. — The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), through its Understand Native Minnesota campaign, today announced $2.3 million in grants and the availability of two new publications to support the teaching of Native American content…
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K-12 educators can apply for mini-grants to support teaching Indigenous history and culture
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Understand Native Minnesota campaign announced that a new grant program will begin accepting applications Monday. The grant program is aimed at helping K-12 educators who are pursuing training or classroom projects to “share accurate narratives and build understanding of the contributions and experiences” of the…
Grant program seeks to strengthen classroom lessons on Minnesota’s Native American history
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is funding awards of up to $2,000, to be administered by the Minneapolis Foundation.
New mini-grants support learning about Native American content
K-12 educators statewide are eligible to apply for funding from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Understand Native Minnesota campaign.
Author Teresa Peterson and SMSC’s Rebecca Crooks-Stratton on big book donation.
Author Teresa Peterson joins us in studio to talk about her new book “Voices From Pejuhutazizi”. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, through its Understand Native Minnesota campaign, is donating 20,000 copies of the book free of charge to teachers and schools who request classroom sets.
Author Teresa Peterson discusses book “Voices from Pejuhutazizi”
The book is a compilation of stories told by Peterson’s great grandfather and uncle.
Minnesota Native reading project teaches ‘present tense’ of Indigenous lives
A book that tells the stories of the Upper Sioux Community may help students across the state learn more about Indigenous communities in Minnesota. Another tribal nation, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, is providing the books for free.
On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a look at a new bill that aims to improve Native education in U.S. public schools.
New campaign encourages schools to teach about Minnesota tribes as current events, not just history
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community offered 10,000 free copies of the book to Minnesota teachers this month, part of the tribe’s multimillion-dollar Understand Native Minnesota campaign to change the classroom narrative about their past and present.