Interview · North Dakota · South Dakota · Jesse Taken Alive · OSEU 7 · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Language & revitalization, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Listening & observation, Intergenerational learning
Learn About questions
1. What does it mean to acknowledge that Tunkasila is a part of what you are doing?
2. Why is it important to know that we are all the same?
Learn From questions
1. What is something “greater than you” that you acknowledge in your life?
2. How does it change the way we see things to see ourselves as a part of something much bigger?
Transcripts
Humility
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Thank you, and I'll say to you that I learned that from some elders. They said, when you
accept this, somebody gives you church. Well, everything I said, but they also said, you
know, for a moment at least, let God acknowledge that you're being asked to do this.
There's a couple of elders in my life that showed me how to do that, and some day,
some day, one of my uncles, you'll get a chance to see that. It's happening. I mean, it's
not me. It's the teachings and doing my best to fulfill them. I'm just like you, like anybody
else.
Might be a little bit heavier, a little bit more bald. We're all the same. Our language, we
said, There's nobody that's different, which means we're all the same. So, nobody's
special. I want to be a friend and relative. As my younger nephews and grandsons
always do, I want to be a bro.
Resource text
Learn ABOUT Learn FROM
(deep listening, information) (deep sharing, transformation)
1. What does it mean to 1. What is something “greater than
acknowledge that Tunkasila is a you” that you acknowledge in your
part of what you are doing? life?
2. Why is important to know that we 2. How does it change the way we
are all the same? see things to see ourselves as a
part of something much bigger?
OSEU 7: INTERVIEW WITH JESSE TAKEN ALIVE
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Source materials
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