1) Clubs to invite:
UConn Irish Dance – offer free lessons during part of the night, bring soda bread. decorations (we have worked with them previously)
Native American Cultural Programs
Questions:
Are you willing to participate?
Do you have a dance team or art group or something else like that you are share with curious students?
Do you have traditional decor or fashion you can bring?
Do you have any traditional food someone in your group is good at making and would be willing to make for a large group?
2) Food – corn, beans, Irish soda bread, potatoes
Make/buy – who can do what?
Jackie: potatoes
Ask Irish dance for soda bread (award winning)
Ask NACP if they have any food to contribute
3) Talking points:
Language
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our animal neighbours the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land.” Sitting Bull
Discrimination
The Native Americans and the Irish faced very similar discrimination at the hands of the British
Stereotypes – considered less than human, savages, unable to control oneself
It is difficult for a culture to accept another culture if they are afraid of that culture
“Othering,” or the process of two groups being seen as an “us vs. them” situation; as seen as the process of viewing another as “not one of us”
Strips a person of their individuality; classifies a person according to a superficial category (i.e. race, gender,