00:00.00 Alan Hi guys and gals. Yep, it's alan your your wonderful host for the seventy sixth episode of the rock card podcast. We're here with Gloria Gloria Brooks and she's gonna talk for this for this last segment. And tell you about how she uses rock art and Basketry of native americans and other items of native american material culture and teaching her students. Go ahead. Gloria it's all yours. 00:31.85 Gloria Brooks Thank you Allen Dr. Allen so this I love your laugh it's so great so I was 00:36.59 Alan Ah. 00:45.88 Gloria Brooks Van camping outside of I was again at volcanic table lands this past October well october of 2021 and I passed by the same site where I had met Bill Petrie back in 2018 and I had I was thinking of starting a van life Youtube channel and when I came across the petroglyphs I became deeply inspired to create a video and just show I also have a k twelve Youtube channel by the way can I say the names of those. Yeah so I have. 01:19.98 Alan Um, of course please. 01:24.95 Gloria Brooks My k twelve channel on Youtube is called nature glows e science and glows is spelled g l o apostrophe s glow is my nickname and then my van life channel is nature glow adventures nature glow singular without the ApostropheS so I started creating a video of the petroglyphs and I I hadn't done a whole lot of research. So I had to do a lot of editing out of stuff but I I just felt really. I really came alive in that video and I just I felt such a connection with the land and and the people and just this deep yearning and desire once again to to connect with what was going on through the petroglyphs and. So I also created like a little mini slideshow within the video as well and you know you can check that out on my my Youtube channel nature glows ecience which is my k twelve channel I hadn't yet created the van live channel to put that video up but I may also put it on the van life channel. But um, from that video I I just I got really excited because then following that same month was the native american heritage month in November and boom I was just super excited to create my first curriculum. My first native american. K twelve curriculum for home and school educators or even people in university if they see fit if they see the material fit to use. Um, you know can use it as well. But I did I think it took me about two weeks to prepare the the powerpoint I did. To I think I I did 1 main powerpoint with a students activity guide I call it an accompanying activity guide and then I rolled in as a resource with the ah with that powerpoint guide. With the powerpoint and the study guide the petroglyph video also goes along with that there as a resource so I put it up on my teacher' pay teachers curriculum store as well. So if you want to check that out that's on teachers' pay teachers. You can just look for nature glows e science. Um, but yeah I just was super excited to finally put feet to what I do best which is curriculum writing I've I've been doing since doing that since I was in college in 9096? Um, and to. 04:09.61 Gloria Brooks To just move forward with this deep yearning and desire to connect with native american culture and also to help be a catalyst um ah to help them in any way I can um you know to be a servant wherein you know for. Hundreds the last 300 years you know they they've they've undergone such suppression and in my curriculum I wanted to make it known that you know the textbooks are history textbooks that we got we still have and so many of our public schools are they're just really sugar coding. And not really showing us the the true genocide that has happened and the suppression that continues to this day. Um, so I I made sure in my research to include links that really um. Uphold the the native americans and not from ah a colonial slant and I you know I found it actually very challenging to find good resources and I even you know I questioned myself I said oh man is this really good. Resource like I did find that Smithsonian I don't know if you'll agree or not please correct me but is isn't Smithsonian a really good resource for upholding native american their true their true story okay 05:32.88 Alan Yeah, yeah, it's considered a sure. Absolutely definitely now now. How do you? How do? yeah yeah, how do you use rock art or rock art imagery. 05:41.69 Gloria Brooks Great phew because I I reference a lot of their work. 05:51.22 Alan And your curricula. 05:51.67 Gloria Brooks All right? So let me so let me just look at the the slideshow here where I do come to the section where I talk about petrolyphs. Okay. 06:04.55 Alan Yes. 06:09.47 Gloria Brooks So sorry for the awkward pause here I suppose you could edit that out. Ah all right? So on slide ah slide 4 native american monumental artwork examples I have beautiful imagery that I got from creative commons. 06:14.30 Alan Um, oh yeah. 06:29.51 Gloria Brooks Thankfully land art mounds rock or cave art petrolyphs and pictographs pick pictographs. So I just went on um, creative commons I think it's called and I found images like the best images that I could find I put them in the Slideshow. 06:40.72 Alan Yeah. 06:48.16 Gloria Brooks And I um made sure to to give proper credit where credit was due so I do reference that? Ah, mainly in that one slide I'm looking through now. Ah mainly what I did was clothing pottery. Clothing and pottery in this first Slideshow. But I did I did make sure to reference petroglyphs as well. But then in my I have 2 parts of this curriculum I also have a shorter lesson plan for teachers that just want something short and quick where. 07:07.40 Alan Yeah, yeah. 07:22.41 Alan Oh. 07:25.26 Gloria Brooks They go on the internet and gather the resources that I give them links to so I do use my petroglyph video as a resource in that shorter Native American Unit study curriculum and a unit study is a topical study and in this case, the unit study is focused on. The Native Americans art. 07:45.68 Alan How long is your video at the petrolyphs. 07:49.42 Gloria Brooks Um, let's see I think it's like 7 minutes long it's short I I kept it I did a lot of editing because I wanted to keep it succinct and um yeah I mean I make sure I I do ah a tight job with my editing. 07:53.93 Alan Very short. Yes. 08:09.35 Gloria Brooks For sure. 08:10.25 Alan That's great. Fantastic. And and what's what's the test. What's the takeaway here both for the teacher and for the student. What do they? What do they garner? What do they get? What's their.. What's the message that you want to leave with them. From your efforts at connecting them to native indigenous life ways cosmology worldview et cetera. 08:41.95 Gloria Brooks I would say that the deepest message would be. You know,? let's let's wake up as as ah, a global unity and reconnect with the land like our indigenous ancestors did let's find a way. You know our brilliance with with technology is it's It's extraordinary I mean I'm on a computer every day for my work I'm I'm very grateful but I think that the the core value is let's. 09:10.44 Alan Right? right. 09:18.99 Gloria Brooks Let's find a way to to learn from the native american culture and and tribes all these different tribes and the richness that they still have they've preserved so many of them all of them I hope all of them are are able to preserve. That ancient knowledge that they carry with them and somehow find a way to help us integrate that today so that so that we can live in more harmony with the earth again because we are way out of balance globally. 09:56.82 Alan That's what that's wonderful. Yeah. 09:56.88 Gloria Brooks Most most of humanity is we're We're so out of balance I'm out of balance I So desperately want to get into balance like you know I feel like I'm I'm I'm running in slow motion like I just can't get there fast enough like. 10:14.84 Alan Definitely. What's what's ah I Think what's interesting about the way in which you're working and I'm working is that they're complimentary. You're working from trying to attempt to educate inspire transform. And sort of Persuade others to live in balance with the Earth and what I've tried to do is to sort of because I don't know who I am whatever but sort of this divine communication is to have as my ministry. Some way to effectively help native people to preserve their culture and in some cases conserve or protect or educate others. About native culture and also provide an opportunity for native people to sort of integrate a platform to showcase their ah their talents their background their talents their education their lifeways. They're dancing their. Their basketry, whatever and minister to Them. Um help them overcome some of the financial challenges they may face and see if there might be ways to partner with them. To assist them in preserving their culture and protecting their knowledge. How's that does that make any sense. Yeah, So it's so so it's a little different. So for instance, um. 11:54.91 Gloria Brooks Yes, Awesome! Absolutely oh yes, so. 12:07.70 Alan I had an opportunity to spend 4 years working with the kowaayau people there around the corner there in the Ta Hatchepes and also in the Western Mohave desert not far away and we put out a book called the handbook of the Koaau and one of the reasons we did this. Book was because the anthropologist and the archaeologist for that matter, get reminding us that these people were extinct and that we didn't know anything about them and I said and I said I said that's not really right isn't so. 12:38.96 Gloria Brooks And oh Wow Oh my goodness. 12:46.37 Alan I said first of all, they're not extinct. There's more of them today than there was in the past thousands and additionally when I put the bibliography together I I think I ended up with 610 references on kawayau culture. So so there's a few things written about them. Yeah, and so so and so we had this this this lushly illustrated book that had a lot of color photographs and covered the ah. 13:10.00 Gloria Brooks Oh that's fantastic. 13:25.46 Alan You know the stem to Stern about what we might want to know about the Kowaaau and we had it win the governor's award for um, historic preservation and then we we took all the different threads of the Kowaau and brought them together to Sacramento too. 13:33.16 Gloria Brooks Oh wow. 13:44.49 Alan Have the award ah recognized and we also expanded the museum. Yeah, we put the we expanded the museum into Atchepe doubled its size and we had a wing dedicated to the book and to the Chou exclusively and. 13:47.94 Gloria Brooks Oh that's extraordinary work. 14:02.33 Alan It it portraited it. It was a portrait of their rock art their basketry their weaponry their lifeways their culture their language their people and it's all in this new wing that doubled the size of this older building. And preserves their culture. So there. We go kind of a ah yes yes. 14:27.96 Gloria Brooks I was just into hatchepe recently with my boyfriend and he showed me the re the reservation and would that be the the would it. What's their name again. Kawaisu. 14:43.74 Alan Hawaii so now there's a there's a museum into hatchepe that's on the you know there it was originally a 1930 s ah library I believe it's in that building. And it's a smaller edifice. But as I said it was doubled in size and I think if you go there, you'll you'll get to see this particular expression of what we've tried to accomplish in terms of a portrait. Of kawaasu culture. 15:18.54 Gloria Brooks Yes I want to go. We're planning to go back. We wanted to hit the bakery So we're going to hit the museum too. 15:25.50 Alan Yes, Cohen's right yes the famous bakery there. Well I think we've done our done our yes exactly I think we've done our deed we have communicated to the. 15:30.24 Gloria Brooks Yes, it was closed on the day we arrived, we were brokenhearted. 15:45.10 Alan The Podcasters a bit about understanding indigenous culture and trying to twin it with some sort of competence to share with teachers and students. How about that. 16:01.39 Gloria Brooks Yes, superb. 16:03.64 Alan And and this ah this little interaction with Gloria Brooks has been amazing. Thank you for being our guest scholar and that's it gang see in the flip flop. 16:15.19 Gloria Brooks Yes, thank you You Thank you so much.