Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee All the Best. In the winter of 2024, I took a class on Native American education as part of my PhD program at the University of Utah. My class was taught by Dr. Connor Warner, who was a fantastic teacher. He's a white guy, but he grew up on the Cheyenne Reservation in Montana,

and he's married to a woman who is an enrolled member of the Salt St. Marie Chippewa tribe.

And by the way, I learned through this class that being enrolled usually means that you have

a certain amount of native ancestry. and different tribes have different criteria for being

enrolled members. Here's another thing that I learned through this class and through other

classes that I've taken in Native American studies. Native peoples and scholars use the terms

Native American, indigenous, and Indian to describe Native peoples.

And in Canada, they usually refer to Native peoples as First Nations.

I had thought that Indian was an outdated, if not offensive, term.

And having a lot of friends from India, I do find it also kind of confusing.

But I'm just saying at the beginning of the episode that while I usually use the terms indigenous American and Native American, I have started sometimes saying Indian because

that's what my books and teachers and my indigenous classmates often say.

For our final project for this class, we were asked to choose a tribe and study their history,

particularly the history of education. I knew immediately that I wanted to study the people

whose land I had grown up on in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. So I went to a website called

Native Land, which maps indigenous land all over the world. It's amazing,

and I highly recommend that you do this. Go to native-dashland.ca, and you can type in a city and state

or a zip code and see whose land it is. I learned that Greenwood Village, Colorado was Cheyenne land. And so I decided to

study the Cheyenne. And so today I'm going to share some of what I learned about the Cheyenne tribe.

In terms of sources, I drew heavily from the work of Dr. Henrietta Mann, who is a full-blood Cheyenne,

enrolled in the Cheyenne Arapaho tribe of Oklahoma. And she had an amazing career. She was the

endowed chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University, Bozeman. She's retired now,

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