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Teaching and Learning with the Seventh Generation: The "Inward Bound" Experience

Pre-health freshmen from a New York university worked at a traditional Mohawk community in return for lessons in Iroquois spirituality, healing, and ecology. Reciprocity between community members and students alleviated problems related to appropriation of Native American traditions and "great white hope" philanthropy, and deepened students' recognition of compassion and understanding of healing. (Contains 17 references.) (Author/TD)

• Contributor: Dunlop, Nancy
• Date Published: Win
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of Experiential Education
• Number: 3
• Volume: 23
• Year: 2000

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NIUSI: District Effort & Support: Inquiry on School & Schooling
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Group Identity
• Network/channel: NIUSI: School Organizational Effort: School/Community Relations
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Student Effort: Recognition

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