In the Fall 2007 issue of the NIEAnews, the Native Financial Education Coalition (NFEC) launched a new column to showcase best practices and financial education resources available to K-12 schools. The first column explored how offering financial education in Native communities can help to alleviate poverty, build individual and community assets as well as strengthen sovereignty. We hope that article sparked your interest in Native financial education. If so, you are probably wondering just how your school or community can implement your own financial education program. To help answer these questions, we are sharing a success story – an outstanding financial education program in a Native school. The featured program comes from the Hannahville Indian Community, a Potawatomi reservation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Actually, it was a group of enterprising freshman students in an American History class at the Hannahville Indian School faced with an assignment that set the stage for the development of a remarkable teaching tool that comes in the form of a board game known as Monopoly on the Rez. For full article see attachment.
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