Guy W. Jones - Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms

Published by Redleaf Press

10 Yorkton Court

St. Paul, MN 55117

www.redleafpress.org

2002 by Guy W. Jones and Sally Moomaw

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Chapter opening illustrations by James Oberle

Photographs by David C. Baxter

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Guy W., 1956-

Lessons from Turtle Island : Native curriculum in early childhood classrooms / by Guy W. Jones and Sally Moomaw.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-60554-348-2 (e-book)

1. Indians of North AmericaStudy and teaching (Early childhood) 2. Early childhood educationNorth America. I. Moomaw, Sally, 1948-II. Title.

E76.6 .J66 2002

372.1908997dc21

2002007650

The cover image is an original pastel by James Oberle, who says this about the painting:

The beat of the Native American drum echoes the heartbeat of Turtle Island, which is also known as North America. Of the seven colors used to create this piece, red, white, yellow, and black represent the four races of man and the four directions. The seventh color used is pipestone.

The turtle represents the living earth. The thirteen circles inside the sacred hoop (the turtle shell) signify the lunar cycles in a year. The thirteenth circle, the drum, is in the center. The sun at the turtles head and the water, as shown by the thin blue-green line, are essential to all life. The turtles claws show the connection to all creation.

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