The Indigenous Wisdom Project (formerly known as “100 Years of State and Federal Policy: The Impact on Pueblo Nations”) has a rich history that dates back to 2011. The curriculum was completed in collaboration with educators, leaders, community organizers, and elders from the nineteen Pueblo Nations as a political project in response to the centennial of statehood for New Mexico. To engage Pueblo People from across the state in a dialogue to provide guidance on a historic project to honor all those that have gone before us and to provide those to follow with a set of documented life experiences to understand and appreciate these life lessons, primarily over the last 100 years, to guide future generations of Pueblo people. With continued demand by teachers for culturally relevant, Pueblo-based curriculum across the state of New Mexico and the United States far beyond the culmination of New Mexico’s centennial commemorations, the rebranding of the curriculum emerged as “Indigenous Wisdom.”
Purpose
This Pueblo-based curriculum aims to strengthen the identity of Native American children in New Mexico by providing comprehensive K-12 unit plans on the complex political, social, cultural, and economic history of the Pueblo nations of New Mexico. The curriculum serves as a counter-narrative to the presentation of the history of New Mexico presented in our schools today.
Goals
The curriculum is rich with instructional strategies, resources, and Pueblo-centered cultural knowledge that will be valuable to students from diverse backgrounds and dispositions in life. The main goal of the curriculum is for Indigenous students and their teachers to become intellectually aware of the critical roles of Pueblo People in exercising agency as they met (and continue to meet) the imposition and challenges of federal and state policies on our quality of life as sovereign entities. The authors of this curriculum believe that a critical sociohistorical education is an effective avenue to strengthen our home communities and to develop an increased awareness and examination of present-day manifestations of historic oppression.
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