OSEU Four: Delores Taken Alive– Traditional Teaching Style

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Interview · South Dakota · Delores Taken Alive · OSEU 4

Themes: Land & stewardship, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Listening & observation

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Learn About questions

Is it traditional in Lakota culture to reteach more than to punish? How much of Lakota teaching is “telling” and how much is “showing”? In traditional Lakota culture, do men ever learn “inside” work and women learn “outside” work or do those stay strictly tied to gender roles? Why was it important to boil the water before making soup or tea or coffee?

Learn From questions

Have you experienced much “punishment” in your lifetime? How has it affected or changed you? Have you ever had a powerful “reteaching” time that didn’t involve punishment? How did that affect you? Do you learn better by listening or by doing? Do you have any examples you could share? Have you learned any roles or lessons specific to your gender (male or female)? How strict are the gender roles you learned? Do you feel comfortable with those expectations or do you feel the need to stretch them a bit? Have you ever learned a lesson that you think may have saved your life? What was it and how did it save you?

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Traditional Teaching Style - Delores Taken Alive - OSEU #4

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We were taught how to work and so like say we forgot and we made a mistake, our father would always say or he'll either ask us to sit down with him or talk wherever we were and made that mistake. He will say, you know, you had forgotten how I taught you and so I'm going to tell you all over again and hoping that you will not make that same mistake again. They didn't get after us or he wasn't angry at us for making that mistake but he'll tell us again or he'll show us again and by living, you know, that kind of example, I learned a lot and of course, you know, that's outside work that our father teaches us how to work and then our mother inside, she also teaches us how to work. She always says to us, well, my girls, the dishes are still waiting, you know, these dishes have no legs, they'll be just sitting there waiting for you and, you know, in a nice way like that never really get after us so we start doing our dishes but of course, you know, we always take turns. Are you going to do the washing or drying and we always take turns but of course, we always have to warm up the water and do the dishes so that's how our mother treated us and then she taught us how she taught us how to make bread, how to even boil water before you make your soup, so things like that, you know, or boil your water before you make your tea or coffee so little things like that. I still do that. I still boil my water before I make my oatmeal so things like that they taught us. They never really get mad at us for making a mistake. They just say, okay, this is how they tell us again.

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Traditional Teaching Style - Delores Taken Alive - OSEU #4 We were taught how to work and so like say we forgot and we made a mistake, our father would always say or he'll either ask us to sit down with him or talk wherever we were and made that mistake. He will say, you know, you had forgotten how I taught you and so I'm going to tell you all over again and hoping that you will not make that same mistake again. They didn't get after us or he wasn't angry at us for making that mistake but he'll tell us again or he'll show us again and by living, you know, that kind of example, I learned a lot and of course, you know, that's outside work that our father teaches us how to work and then our mother inside, she also teaches us how to work. She always says to us, well, my girls, the dishes are still waiting, you know, these dishes have no legs, they'll be just sitting there waiting for you and, you know, in a nice way like that never really get after us so we start doing our dishes but of course, you know, we always take turns. Are you going to do the washing or drying and we always take turns but of course, we always have to warm up the water and do the dishes so that's how our mother treated us and then she taught us how she taught us how to make bread, how to even boil water before you make your soup, so things like that, you know, or boil your water before you make your tea or coffee so little things like that. I still do that. I still boil my water before I make my oatmeal so things like that they taught us. They never really get mad at us for making a mistake. They just say, okay, this is how they tell us again.