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Content from the
April 9, 2008
Elders Interviewing Project Sub committee
Project
- Video recording interviews for historical purpose
- Individual families who relocated to Portland
- Creation of Native Organizations
- Integrate into academy Curriculum
- Rotate students working on the project
- Project can stress Urban Indian Tribe
- Project can build resume and future success in life i.e. college
- This may be a way to build cultural identity
- It will help people feel appreciated and wanted
Format
- Questions generated by students, staff and youth and Elders
- Continuous video project
- Send out survey to provide direction
- Scan old pictures
- What can we learn from disasters like the Van Port Flood and how the Native Community will respond?
April 9, 2008
11:30-2:00
Meeting Minutes
Elders Interviewing Project Sub committee
- Genealogy Project
- Building family trees of individual students or a family here in Portland
- Learn history from a Native perspective
Other Ideas
- For youth that do not have contact with grandparents the elders interviewed could possibly function as grandparent figures
- The project can be a two-way street with exchanges of knowledge coming from both the youth and the elder.
- Some people don’t know what it is to be Indigenous:
- To give to community
- How much to give and when to give
- We are to add to community
- Have to be taught how to be Indigenous
- Takes time to learn how to act in an appropriate way
- There has been an attempt to assimilate us but we resisted this attempt
- We come to NAYA to practice our culture – talk, eat, interact
- Strongest thing we have is our Indian ness – it keeps us together and unites us
- Role of a grand parent is to give and share which helps both people feel good
- News paper from “home” keeps us in contact with our identity and local “home” news
- We need to teach about sovereignty
- We need to teach about policies and the tricks that are often part of policies “you don’t get nothing for free”
- You can’t have anything unless you work for it.
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