Adding photos of progress weekly:
Photo taken on July 29, 2011
Photo taken on Aug. 5, 2011
Photo taken on August 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
New SGU Lakota Studies Building under construction
Adding photos of progress weekly:
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
SGU Campus in summer time
Visit the SGU Bookstore this week to see sage bundles hung from the eaves outdoors to dry. The SGU Bookstore sells several locally grown and harvested plants for use in ceremonies, cooking and personal care.
Seen outside the SGU Library, a bird has made a new home on the knotted metal sculpture (or maybe the nest was simply relocated to a more visible spot?) The Library was recently given a little makeover with fresh paint and new carpeting.
Monday, September 13, 2010
SGUTube adding more videos every day
By Sammie Bordeaux
SGU's Media Guru, Jim Cortez, has added some new videos to the SGU YouTube channel, a two-part video of SGU adjunct instructor Peter Gibbs teaching Todd County Middle School students about life inside a tipi. Both videos are about 8 minutes long and available in high definition format.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6og_89w6bbU
Cortez has been creating videos for SGU for the past three years and making them available via YouTube with an SGU YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/sintegleskautube Most SGU events are covered by Cortez and edited and made available quickly to viewers. Videos include the SGU Founders' Day activities, the SGU frybread video, Lakota elder Albert White Hat speaking about Lakota women's roles, and even a teaching-related video featuring SGU Human Services Chair, Sheryl Klein, developed to help students understand Service Learning.
Cortez has been working on the past 38 years' worth of video and film created by the University media staff, trying to digitize it and make it available via YouTube and/or through DVDs. Cortez believes that the video collection of Sinte Gleska University could be used to raise money for the University through sales of rare and never-seen videos that the University owns. The value of these videos, he believes, lies in their research potential for students and faculty of SGU and other academic institutions.
Additionally, the SGU YouTube channel offers potential students the opportunity to see what's available at Sinte Gleska University in terms of technology, classes, and people. Many will find that SGU is a place like no other in its course offerings, expertise on the Lakota way of life, and the availability of the knowledge and wisdom of Lakota elders.
SGU's Media Guru, Jim Cortez, has added some new videos to the SGU YouTube channel, a two-part video of SGU adjunct instructor Peter Gibbs teaching Todd County Middle School students about life inside a tipi. Both videos are about 8 minutes long and available in high definition format.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6og_89w6bbU
Cortez has been creating videos for SGU for the past three years and making them available via YouTube with an SGU YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/sintegleskautube Most SGU events are covered by Cortez and edited and made available quickly to viewers. Videos include the SGU Founders' Day activities, the SGU frybread video, Lakota elder Albert White Hat speaking about Lakota women's roles, and even a teaching-related video featuring SGU Human Services Chair, Sheryl Klein, developed to help students understand Service Learning.
Cortez has been working on the past 38 years' worth of video and film created by the University media staff, trying to digitize it and make it available via YouTube and/or through DVDs. Cortez believes that the video collection of Sinte Gleska University could be used to raise money for the University through sales of rare and never-seen videos that the University owns. The value of these videos, he believes, lies in their research potential for students and faculty of SGU and other academic institutions.
Additionally, the SGU YouTube channel offers potential students the opportunity to see what's available at Sinte Gleska University in terms of technology, classes, and people. Many will find that SGU is a place like no other in its course offerings, expertise on the Lakota way of life, and the availability of the knowledge and wisdom of Lakota elders.
Faculty Development Workshop September 17
SGU's Policy Institute is hosting a faculty development workshop on September 17 at 10 AM at the Student Services Building on the Antelope Lake Campus. Titled "Blogs, wikis, IMs, Facebooks, YouTube, and Second Life: Technology in the Grounded Classroom," this is the second time this workshop has been offered to SGU faculty.
SGU Faculty who are confused about technology or just want a refresher-course can sign up with Marlies White Hat at the SGU Policy Institute or with Mary Henson-Saunders at the SGU Arts & Sciences Building to attend this workshop. You must sign up to attend the workshop to ensure enough workshop materials and food are available for all.
SGU Faculty who are confused about technology or just want a refresher-course can sign up with Marlies White Hat at the SGU Policy Institute or with Mary Henson-Saunders at the SGU Arts & Sciences Building to attend this workshop. You must sign up to attend the workshop to ensure enough workshop materials and food are available for all.
Science/Math Knowledge Bowl upcoming
Sinte Gleska University's ongoing Science and Math Knowledge Bowl will continue this fall, challenging students and parents alike to recall all their knowledge of math and science on-the-spot to win prizes.
Prizes up to $1000 (plus pizza and pop) are available to those who attend, and anyone is eligible to win the prizes for answering science and math-related questions.
Quiz No. 27 will be held September 14 at 5:00 PM at the SGU Multipurpose Building Commons Area at 5:00 PM. For more information contact Dr. Subodh Singh, 605-856-8215 at the SGU Technology Building. This event is sponsored by SD-EPSCoR.
Prizes up to $1000 (plus pizza and pop) are available to those who attend, and anyone is eligible to win the prizes for answering science and math-related questions.
Quiz No. 27 will be held September 14 at 5:00 PM at the SGU Multipurpose Building Commons Area at 5:00 PM. For more information contact Dr. Subodh Singh, 605-856-8215 at the SGU Technology Building. This event is sponsored by SD-EPSCoR.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
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Sinte Gleska University Land Curriculum Camp combines cultural learning with fun for children
By Sammie Bordeaux
Sinte Gleska University’s Institute of Tribal Lands hosted two sleepover camps this summer designed to teach children about tribal land issues.
Vernon “Ike” Schmidt, Director of the SGU Institute of Tribal Lands, designed the camps with help from Lydia Whirlwind Soldier, who wrote a Land Curriculum that was presented to children at the camps. Forty-six children from the Rosebud Area attended the camps, held in Spring Creek Community, participating in archery, fishing, swimming, Lakota language instruction, biology and environmental science, cultural and spiritual activities, and fun.
Camp counselors included Schmidt, who took students fishing and swimming and directed the camp; Gerald Lang, SGU Environmental Sciences professor, who taught biology and earth-friendly living; Jackie White Bird, resident of Spring Creek and Lakota language instructor, who taught the language component of the camp; Wes Luxon, who taught archery; and Sam High Crane, who taught the spirituality and culture.
Students from nearly every community on the reservation attended the camp, enjoying living outdoors while learning about the land and their responsibility toward Unci Maka.
Lydia Whirlwind Soldier wrote the land curriculum that was taught at the camp, integrating science, Lakota language and values and spirituality with the culture and responsibility Lakota people have toward the land. Sponsored by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, the curriculum addresses the need for the younger generations of Lakota to understand and take care of the earth. The curriculum is available at the SGU Institute of Lands, located behind the SGU Library on the main SGU campus.
The Institute of Tribal Lands partnered with the RST Suicide Prevention Program, Circle of HOpe at St. Francis Mission, The Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud, and Wiconi Wakan to host the camp. The two camps were held June 23-25 and July 26-28. A third camp was planned, but funding was short after unexpected expenses arose from the first two camps.
Schmidt said, “What we want to do is get more young people introduced to the reservation, the culture, the land, the environment and while we are doing that we also want to focus on wellness issues because of the suicide rate and because of diabetes. So, during our camp we had exercises. We had plenty of stuff to keep them moving. We did the curriculum part. Jerry handled the biology and environmental sciences component to it. We used Jackie Whitebird who added a lot of the cultural component, Lakota language. Sam High Crane added a lot of cultural, the songs and the language, the wolakota part.”
Students spent time keeping journals as part of their camp experience, and each day ended with a Talking Circle to discuss the day’s activities and what was learned. Students who had never particpated in cultural activities such as smudging and greeting each other as relatives were given an insight into their culture that they had not seen before.
Schmidt said, “I talked about a lot of historical stuff, how we derived our land base. The first time it was really identified in the 1851 treaty. They started carving and carving to where we are at today. I just wanted to give them a real broad basis and history of lands we had and now what tribal land enterprises is doing to regain our land base.”
Jackie White Bird focused on the Lakota language, teaching children how to greet each other as relatives and how to pray each morning and evening.
The Talking Circle was used to help children learn to talk to each other without conflict, expressing their feelings about suicide, death of family members, what encourages them and what changes they wanted to make.
The camp ended with a buffalo feed using bison meat from the SGU Bison Ranch. Children were awarded t-shirts as well.
Schmidt says the camps were a success and hopes to offer more next year. (photos by Jim Cortez and Gerald Lang)
Sinte Gleska University’s Institute of Tribal Lands hosted two sleepover camps this summer designed to teach children about tribal land issues.
Vernon “Ike” Schmidt, Director of the SGU Institute of Tribal Lands, designed the camps with help from Lydia Whirlwind Soldier, who wrote a Land Curriculum that was presented to children at the camps. Forty-six children from the Rosebud Area attended the camps, held in Spring Creek Community, participating in archery, fishing, swimming, Lakota language instruction, biology and environmental science, cultural and spiritual activities, and fun.
Camp counselors included Schmidt, who took students fishing and swimming and directed the camp; Gerald Lang, SGU Environmental Sciences professor, who taught biology and earth-friendly living; Jackie White Bird, resident of Spring Creek and Lakota language instructor, who taught the language component of the camp; Wes Luxon, who taught archery; and Sam High Crane, who taught the spirituality and culture.
Students from nearly every community on the reservation attended the camp, enjoying living outdoors while learning about the land and their responsibility toward Unci Maka.
Lydia Whirlwind Soldier wrote the land curriculum that was taught at the camp, integrating science, Lakota language and values and spirituality with the culture and responsibility Lakota people have toward the land. Sponsored by a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture, the curriculum addresses the need for the younger generations of Lakota to understand and take care of the earth. The curriculum is available at the SGU Institute of Lands, located behind the SGU Library on the main SGU campus.
The Institute of Tribal Lands partnered with the RST Suicide Prevention Program, Circle of HOpe at St. Francis Mission, The Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud, and Wiconi Wakan to host the camp. The two camps were held June 23-25 and July 26-28. A third camp was planned, but funding was short after unexpected expenses arose from the first two camps.
Schmidt said, “What we want to do is get more young people introduced to the reservation, the culture, the land, the environment and while we are doing that we also want to focus on wellness issues because of the suicide rate and because of diabetes. So, during our camp we had exercises. We had plenty of stuff to keep them moving. We did the curriculum part. Jerry handled the biology and environmental sciences component to it. We used Jackie Whitebird who added a lot of the cultural component, Lakota language. Sam High Crane added a lot of cultural, the songs and the language, the wolakota part.”
Students spent time keeping journals as part of their camp experience, and each day ended with a Talking Circle to discuss the day’s activities and what was learned. Students who had never particpated in cultural activities such as smudging and greeting each other as relatives were given an insight into their culture that they had not seen before.
Schmidt said, “I talked about a lot of historical stuff, how we derived our land base. The first time it was really identified in the 1851 treaty. They started carving and carving to where we are at today. I just wanted to give them a real broad basis and history of lands we had and now what tribal land enterprises is doing to regain our land base.”
Jackie White Bird focused on the Lakota language, teaching children how to greet each other as relatives and how to pray each morning and evening.
The Talking Circle was used to help children learn to talk to each other without conflict, expressing their feelings about suicide, death of family members, what encourages them and what changes they wanted to make.
The camp ended with a buffalo feed using bison meat from the SGU Bison Ranch. Children were awarded t-shirts as well.
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