Spokane Schools Native Education

Our elementary school clubs learned the power of words. How your words change water on a molecular level and how much of ourselves are made up of water. Check out this youtube video about Dr. Emoto's experience that reinforces our native teachings that words matter. We also made Liquid Smudge, saying kind things to the water before adding in our oils. Liquid Smudge is no means traditional, however it is useful as a tool to give our younger kids to ground themselves and help themselves independently.

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Middle School Students Explore Science and Nature at EWU - Stories - EWU - The Region's Polytechnic Students from four area middle schools visited EWU for a day of hands-on science and career exploration.

NC's Native Student Union celebrated their End of Year party sharing memories and honoring our 3 seniors with 4 strand necklaces that represent the 4 years of high school it took for them to graduate. NSU members had beading circles the past two weeks so that they could send them off with a little piece of themselves and stay connected to our grads as they begin the next stages of their post high school lives. Each necklace is unique and full of love, just like our seniors. Congratulations to our Seniors Ne'Hovia, Redstar, and Kamari!

Tonight is the last sewing workshop until the new school year! Hope to see you there.

This week we held a graduation on WSU's campus for our elementary club students who participated in at least one of the Little Birds groups we did in Collaboration with WSU Native American Health Sciences Department.

The Little Birds pathway program provided both western medicine and traditional knowledge teachings for early learning youth and elementary students. The approach helps build self-confidence and self-esteem around the health sciences and cultural identity, inspire youth to discover possible careers in the healthcare field, and begin to create trust and safety in healthcare. It provides an opportunity to build genuine safety, trust and confidence for youth through engaging in playful activities in various areas of health sciences including medicine, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition and exercise, mental health, and traditional oral knowledge.

We had over 150 people out to Celebrate these youth. It was so amazing to see the joy and excitement on these kids face, and to watch their community come around and celebrate and support them. I (Kendra) was so in the moment I didn't get any pictures but took some from what people sent me. We did have a photographer from WSU who got to take each kids photo as they graduated.

If you were there and have photos you want to share drop them in the comments.

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Congratulations to NC Senior Daisy Tuter for getting accepted to Carroll College and committing to their Cheer Team!

Last week we also finished off our Elementary field trips to the MAC. Representation matters and I was so happy our students got to go and learn about some Columbia Plateau Tribal Culture from an amazing tribal member working at the Museum. Shawn was truly amazing and meet all 5 of my groups where they were at. Each of the 5 field trips were slightly different. We all did, go explore the Lego exhibit after. Our kids had so much fun throughout the morning of their trips learning, sharing their own experiences and finally playing with the Legos.