Relationship with the Land with Dr Wayne Fox

Some schools will keep away from the spirituality piece of of who we are and I think that’s the most important piece of having that understanding of making also making sure that these kids of who they are and having that connectiveness to the four-legged the two-legged and being able to bring that into your into your lesson plans you whether it’s uh we’re looking um into science and we and we stumble across maybe the Buffalo and talking about the Buffalo having stories about the Buffalo and how important it was to our people and then going in using talking about bits and pieces of what pieces were used for you know the horn was made as a cup the horn was also made as a spoon um some of the bones were made as maybe a rake or our tools or as a scraper the hide was made you know as clothes or even getting into the spirituality piece of it of using the hide for um to pray on or using the skull in front of your altar and I think that was the most important you know piece to let these children know sometime you know like I said you know a lot of the children don’t know but if you put them out there and put that Curiosity into their into their head you know they’ll search it out and they’ll come back to you and they’ll say hey Mr Fox this is what you were talking about you know of having that relationship with the land having that relationship with the rock it’s just not a rock it’s it’s a actually it’s it’s a grandfather you know and having that respect for a bird and not being able to throw rocks at maybe you know even a frog of having a you know it may not be the culture of who we are but have you know finding a story about the Frog and talking and connecting it back to that lesson you know just a little different things you know and I think that’s the most important piece