“You have to be educated, but you have also to be left to educate yourself”
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February – Black History Month
March – Women’s History Month
May – Caribbean History Month
October – Native American Month
For each special month, an assembly performance representing that month can be done. The performance also allows time for audience participation, lecture with Q & A. Also be done as a theme for specific art programs Lecture series.
Can be done by each month special honoring or in these categories:
Middle Passage – Understanding the areas of traditional roles tribes representing people of color and that influence in today’s society. Family Structure, Councils, clans, moonlodge (women), tattoos.
Artifacts – Understanding the traditions, history, and how they are used in protecting, learning, and helping to guide us.
Ceremonies – Understanding the whole concept on how to prepare and doing one.
Sweat lodge – Traditions of purifying.
Spirituality/Religion/Traditions – Subjects that are one and the same but yet different. Understanding how to work with all of them.
Vision Quest – The Rights of Passage for young and old men/women. Step by Step in preparing and going through all the ceremonies in this special 7 day ordeal. To learn who you are and what you are to do with your life.
Music (Drumming/Singing/Dance).
Black Indians – The combination of African/Native people (Caribbean, South America). Prior, During and after slavery. Also nations most influenced from this and the effect it has in America.
Medicine Wheel – A basis of centering ourselves, balance. Finding out how to build one and learning it’s directions by color elements and animal. Using them in our everyday lives.
Meditation – Bringing peace into your mind, spirit and the elements used. Sage, cedar, sweetgrass, and music.