Talk to Me, Nai'ya, Nai-shti'ya: Need For
"The Talk" (Sexual Education)
Morgan Ciara Ray
Laguna Pueblo/ Maidu Tribe of California
Embedded Files
“Pueblo of Laguna Flag.” Infobase, Facts On File. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&iid=281098. Accessed 13 Sept. 2024.
www.sir-nsn.gov
Ray, Morgan, Personal Photo, February 16, 2025
Research Log 1: Identity
Research Log 1: Identity
Merritt Herald, GEARING-EDGE, Accessed November 15, 2024
ArchEyes, Pueblo Bonito: A Testament to Chaco culture in New Mexico, Accessed November 15, 2024
PBS, Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools, Accessed November 15, 2024
¨Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community¨ - Jeanette Armstrong
This reading spotlights the identity and dimensions of the 4 selves that make up each Okanagan tribal member. These selves are key to create a bond with all people and to maintain their connection to the land.
Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books, 1996. Pp 460-470.
"How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape" - B. Toastie
As told by B. Toastie, landscape stories go way back to Creation and the names given to those sites by our Creator. These names have meaning, identity, and are a form of healing to their surrounding communities. The stories that keep these places alive and well cared for through generations of Indigenous communities.
Toastie, B. “How place names impact the way we see landscape.” High Country News: Know the West, 1 May 2022, https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact- the-way-we-see-landscape.¨And I Went to School¨ - Joseph Suina
The introduction of the new schooling system was probably the peak downgrade of Pueblo people and the fate of their future. The new rules are "bewildering", sadly this would become the new normal and affect this new generation of children.
Suina, Joseph “And I went to school” memories of a pueblo childhood,”. New Mexico Journal of Reading, Winter 1985, Vol. V, No.2.Research Log 2
Research Log 2
Isleta Pueblo Women, Celestial Images, Accessed November 15, 2024
Macleans.ca, The Interview: A history of Sex Ed, Accessed November 15, 2024
Pre-colonial Indigenous Sexual Education
Pre-colonial Indigenous Sexual Education
This article spotlights that rediscovering traditional knowledge and its history has the ability indigenous youth. Indigenous youth have the highest risk for contracting STI's, as well as, adolescent pregnancy. This particular group has been denied comprehensive sex education because of socio-economic realities and their opinions surrounding sex.
“Precolonial Indigenous sexual education — The Xaverian Weekly.” The Xaverian Weekly, 26 October 2017,
History of Sex Education in the U.S.
History of Sex Education in the U.S.
In this article by Planned Parenthood, it is covering the introduction of sex education and when it started to gain support, as well as the normalization of it. While it also covers the challenges it has faced, why parents and educators choose to shun the youth from this type of curriculum. Many organizations had adopted "sex education" to be a service included within their program.
Parenthood, Planned. “History of Sex Education in the U.S.” Planned Parenthood,
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