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Dates and Calendar Turn dates and calendar into a more respectful, usable decision.
What you’ll be able to do Connect place, institutions, and collective memory to the DHS process that is being designed or changed. Compare the responses to this question and explain your choice: What keeps the learning useful instead of turning it into a stereotype? Document a next step for Dates and Calendar: Use Dates and Calendar as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back. Dates and Calendar Treaty dates. 1862. 26 December — the Mankato executions; literacy, not a holiday you put on a flyer. Boarding-school remembrance. American Indian Month in Minnesota (May, as the state has marked it). Nation days and powwow calendars some families name. Ricing season. Hunting seasons as treaty practice.
This family’s calendar A calendar date is literacy. It is not consultation and not a day off the form. “Native holiday” does not belong on a case note. Ask this family and this nation.
Juneteenth is African American literacy. Eid is not this page. Another community’s calendar is not inclusion here.
Put dates and calendar to work What you can change You control whether dates and calendar is treated as a question to explore or a label placed on someone.
What to watch for A calendar click is literacy. It is not consultation and not a day off the packet.
Your next step Use this evidence as a hypothesis in your next plan, then confirm the relevant detail with the person or the community partner you named.
Practical cards Dates and Calendar
Real example: Treaty dates. 1862. 26 December — the Mankato executions; literacy, not a holiday you put on a flyer. Boarding-school remembrance. American Indian Month in Minnesota (May, as the state has marked it). Nation…
Leader action: A calendar click is literacy. It is not consultation and not a day off the packet.
I do not need a cultural performance from a professional. I need the process to make room for my name, my people, my questions, and the way I actually need to participate.
Composite public perspective — illustrative · Eleven Tribal Nations of Minnesota · Place, institutions, and memory Carry this forward Dates and Calendar provide context to test, not a label to assign.
The person, household, Nation, or named community partner remains the authority on what fits.
A calendar click is literacy. It is not consultation and not a day off the packet.
Completion is shown by a scenario decision, review of a practical artifact, and a saved one-minute commitment.
Use Dates and Calendar as a hypothesis in one live plan; verify the relevant detail with the affected person or a named community partner, then record the change, owner, review date, and report-back.
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