Heather Sundahl

March 23, 2021
In honor of Women's History Month, get to know Mae Timbimboo Parry. A lifelong culture bearer, Mae dedicated her life to truth-telling about her people, the Northwest Band of the Shoshone Nation. She shares insights and perspectives that illustrate the cultural practices of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and bring its people into the present.
January 21, 2021
Heather Sundahl, a freelance writer and editor, and Brenda Beyal, a Diné/Navajo wife, mother, and teacher, contemplate how we as educators can examine our complicity in perpetuating stereotypes and in response, activate empathy, knowledge-seeking, and change.
November 10, 2020
Melissa Deletant, a teacher in the Uintah School District, shares her Veteran's Day Project that simultaneously honors veterans, teaches drawing and painting skills, and shows how participating in the arts creates empathy.
November 3, 2020
What would you like children in Utah to know about your tribe?” This seemingly simple query posed to Patty Timbimboo-Madsen, cultural specialist for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, launched our Native American Curriculum Initiative and models our guiding principle to honor the Native voice.
October 12, 2020
How can you honor the land on which you reside? How can you be a good steward of the beautiful state in which you live? What can you give back to the land that has so freely offered its blessings to you? Heather Sundahl encourages us to be part of a conversation that does not deny the lived experience of millions of Native people.