Resource Category: Grounding Documents

Essential Understandings for Michigan highlight key concepts about the histories, cultures, and contemporary experiences of Indigenous peoples. They can help educators teach with accuracy, respect, and connection to the communities whose stories continue today.

The Anishinaabe Learning Principles for Michigan represent how instruction should happen from an Anishinaabe worldview. These seven learning principles guide educators in creating learning environments that reflect Indigenous ways of knowing through relationships, land-based learning, and experiential practices.  

Baabiinskaanmat is a learning framework that describes the practice of circling back to reflect and grow. It reminds us that learning is a dynamic, lifelong journey—always evolving and never truly complete.