The Importance of Interconnectedness with Dr. Teresa Delorme

I feel like the worst thing that could have happened to us was the loss of our language because language and culture are so interval banned how do you do one without the other and trying to you know bring the click the language and and the culture back to the to the ways of all this very hard thing to do and there’s just not enough time and and you and sometimes you worry that there’s not enough desire on the part of the larger community to get that to happen there’s just the time constraints are so great with so much more to do especially in schools when you have you have we have to figure out how to do that whole integrated piece where everything is connected just like the Indian Way of thinking everything is connected there’s an interconnectedness that once we figure that out in our curriculum the answer lies there well you know one of the I guess starting with the very simplest point of thinking about how the native Americans lived for lack of a better way to put it a simple life but another in some ways a very complex life but their connection to nature was probably when I think about it when you think about the health remedies that Native American people had back in the day and and modern medicine a lot a lot of is derived from what the Native American people were doing a couple hundred years ago and more but thinking about that connectedness and for every for every problem they seem to have a remedy whether it be health or otherwise their solution seekers critical thinkers that people wouldn’t have thought about you know you don’t think about that today and what I kind of I always get a little bit irate when people talk about Native American people from you know pree I suppose European Native American people as being primitive when in fact they had found a harmony and living with nature that I don’t think can ever be replicated or recaptured and their whole survival depended upon their knowledge of their surroundings and their cultures were built around that and so their contribution when you think about it that whole interconnectedness that they understood long before anybody else did that whole we are all related so I think my edge was and I don’t know how did they say that in Lakota Maya took my life but my entire lesson yeah and I used to listen to dr.Alan Ross talk about that I used to go to a lot of the cop Native American conferences when I first started with the BIA school system they called it back then not E and I was just profoundly impacted by how he described it and I and now I think we are so divided and I think the most important contribution we can make the most important conceptual contribution we can make today if it were ever realized is that we are all related and we’re best when we are working collaboratively together and accepting and honoring each other no matter where we’re from instead of that divisiveness that comes from you belong to that tribe you belong there you’re from this country that country and that the differences seemed to in some ways outweigh the sameness of who we are that we’re all in this together and we all need to work together and collaborate because if we could ever find a way to come to a common understanding what we need for our future for our children we would have a much better place here I don’t know if that’s what you’re looking for but it’s a whole idea of the holistic way of looking at life and surroundings and earth that seems to have disappeared we fragmented our society into groups and subgroups and it’s and it has it says that has a very negative impact on our society