Gets Curriculum
The CVTC Cultural Resources Program endeavors to in provide Ahtna Cultural Education Curriculum to teach the community about our culture as the Indigenous people of Nay’dini’aa Na’, Chickaloon Village. We hope to provide a better understanding of our history and culture as we move forward in living, preserving, and restoring our traditions. In Chickaloon, we learn by doing. This idea that you learn by just trying and allowing oneself to fail, problem solve, and eventually succeed. This kind of reverse engineering is reminiscent of many indigenous learning systems which focus on holistic knowledge. To teach about the values in indigenous learning methods and teach about respect for environment and indigenous materials
This curriculum is called Gets or Mittens. In this lesson participants will be taught how to sew Ahtna Athabascan mittens. The goal is to make a pair of Ahtna Athabascan mittens and educate several Ahtna Athabascan words involved with the activity. This Traditional Physical Response approach is the same method of instruction used in Chickaloon's Tribal school, Ya Ne Dah Ah.
