The Medicine Wheel: Stories of a Hoop Dancer
by Teddy Anderson & Jessika von Innerebner
Description:
Publisher's description (Medicine Wheel Education Inc, 2016): The Hoop Dance and the Medicine Wheel are powerful symbols of unity, cooperation, and harmony. In his performances around the world, Teddy Anderson uses these symbols as lenses through which young and old alike can examine the past, and plan for the future. The Medicine Wheel's four colour - black, red, yellow and white - represent the various nations and people of the earth. In Teddy's first book, he shares his vision of a world where knowledge guides our steps on a path of love, where all people see themselves as members of ONE FAMILY.
Resource format: Picturebook
Age recommendation: grades K- 6
Keywords: hoop dancing, kindness, Seven Sacred Teachings, Grandfather teachings, Elders, Medicine Wheel, drumming, singing, regalia, kinship, family
Year of publication: 2016
Publisher information: Medicine Wheel Education Inc
Teaching and Learning Ideas
Our team collaborated with new teachers, alumni of the Werklund School of Education’s Bachelor of Education program, to create teaching and learning plans for texts in this website. With audiences ranging from Pre-Kindergarten to Post-Secondary, lesson plans across this resource address a wide range of school subject areas, inclusive approaches, and Indigenous education topics, such as the revitalization of Indigenous languages. As this website was designed with Undergraduate Programs in Education instructors, as well as teachers in mind, connections to UPE courses have been flagged on each lesson plan. These lessons are intended as a starting place for educators, to help you envision ways in which you might bring Indigenous literatures, as well as ways of knowing, being, and doing, into your teaching contexts. Please adapt, use, and share these lessons in ways that are generative for your teaching practice. We offer our sincere thanks to the dozens of new teachers who gifted us with these creative ideas!
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