Lesson / Document · South Dakota · OSEU 1 · OSEU 2
Themes: Land & stewardship, Language & revitalization, Identity & belonging, Education & learning, Treaties & sovereignty, Boarding schools & assimilation, Culture & continuity
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Inquiry Design Model (IDM) Blueprint™
Why would we study the Oceti Sakowin People?
Compelling Question
OSEU Standard 1.1 – Identify changes from the historic land base to the contemporary
nine-reservation South Dakota land base of the Oceti Sakowin, and analyze the causes
and implication of those changes.
OSEU Standard 2.3 – Recognize that there is a continuum of tribal identity, ranging
Standards and Practices from assimilated to traditional lifestyle, that includes each unique subculture or
individual member within the Oceti Sakowin.
K-12.H.2 Students will analyze and evaluate the impact of people, events, ideas and symbols
upon history using multiple sources.
Where do you fit into Oceti Sakowin? (If applicable)
Staging the Question Where does Lakota culture fit into Oceti Sakowin?
Supporting Supporting Supporting
Question 1 Question 2 Question 3
What does Oceti Sakowin translate to? What are the
three divisions and seven bands of the Oceti Sakowin Where did/do these people What is identity and how can knowing
people? live? your identity help you in life?
Formative Formative Formative
Performance Task Performance Task Performance Task
Students will be questioned on familiarity with the
Lakota language and if/where they have heard the Students will journal on what they
words before. Students will compare the
think identity is. (Emphasis on where
lands of the Oceti Sakowin
Students will begin charting the divisions of the Oceti we come from)We will look at a
with the current lands.
Sakowin. Students will take a walking tour around textbook definition and discuss what
Vocab: Reservations,
the room to see each of the seven council fires that means. Students will view a video
Treaties (Day 3,4)
around the room in order. They will take their on the importance of identity. (Day 5)
notebooks to take notes on each. (Day 1, 2)
Featured Sources Featured Sources Featured Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
Cairns Seven Council Fires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4eGkCnDBHE 4DVLJ4Fwykw&index=2&list=
Books, online maps
PLs8d38Q6863v6LIr2Ee2hJqAc2jtxL5ZZ
Grant, Lee, and Swan, 2014
Students come up with a list of three reasons to study the Oceti Sakowin
Argument
people. They will also include one sentence on why it is important to them
Summative
Students will get into groups and make posters using the information they
Performance Task
Extension came up with in their argument. We will present these to the class (Day 6)
Students will be challenged to go home and explain to one person at home why it is important to
Taking Informed Action study the history of the Oceti Sakowin people and how it can help them in life.
Grant, Lee, and Swan, 2014