Blanket Exercise in Menomonie

#1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">THE BLANKET EXERCISE is a participatory learning activity to help #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">participants understand how colonization in the United States of America has impacted the people who lived here long before#1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Columbus and other settlers arrived.

#1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">A blanket exercise took place in Menomonie at the First Congregational United Church of Christ. It concentrated on the Northwestern Wisconsin area and the tribes there, including the Ho-Chunk Nation. The attachment below is of the Powerpoint presentation that accompanied the exercise.