The Medicine Wheel was something I had seen before in terms of the four directions, but this article focuses on it as an anchor for teaching and learning. From there, it goes into more detail of what exactly the four directions represent, as seen below. The article also talks about the interconnectedness of the four directions and that that creates wholeness. In teaching holistically, students could start with circles to address their spirit, then, for the physical aspect, they would need to work with the land, the emotional aspect through healing circles, and finally the mental aspect in learning their people’s ways. The question lies on how to incorporate that authentically into non-indigenous classrooms.
https://www.lincdireproject.org/wp-content/uploads/ResearcherShareFolder/Readings/Teaching%20by%20the%20Medicine%20Wheel.pdf