Grad students learn from Ojibwe tribe

Two Penn State graduate students say they can't wait to apply what they learned spending three weeks with the Ojibwe Native American tribe to their future teaching careers.

Graduate students Kevin and Julie Slivka recently returned from a three-week, fully immersive Native American course -- "Exploring the Indigenous Ways of Knowing of the Ojibwe" -- offered through the College of Education and the College of Agriculture each year.

Led by Bruce D. Martin, an instructor in the College of Education, the Slivkas and about 20 other Penn State students spent three weeks from May 16 to June 4 on the three largest Ojibwe reservations in North America -- the Red Lake, Leech Lake and White Earth nations. There, they learned history, geography, the indigenous people's way of life, culture and worldview of the Ojibwe.

"I grew up in the bush country of the Northwest Angle, Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, between Manitoba and Ontario," Martin said. "I went to school with Ojibwe children and our friends were Ojibwe."

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Source : http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2010/07/12/grad_students_learn_from
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