She shares a blood bond by her great grandmother and a spiritual bond in her soul. She is an avid student of the history and suppression of the sovereign Nations that populated North America. More about the artist . I wanted to get as much information as possible - about Navajo Medicine Men, as the woman has a father who is the medicine man of his tribe. As you might have guessed, I took some of your lovely artwork and poetry, which I hope to present to our class.
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In the 1993 school year, teachers at Baboquivari Middle School on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation sent students to the principal's office for discipline 1,399 times. But over the next three years, disciplinary referrals dropped 54 percent, to 639 last school year. The principal and some teachers at the school 60 miles west of Tucson credit the steady drop in violence and other misbehavior to revival of an O'odham tradition-telling stories. In 1994, the school launched a program in which tribe members visit students, primarily at-risk students, and tell old stories and help renew fading cultural traditions. The program, called Cultural Enhancement Through Storytelling, has a staff of three.