Personal Financial Literacy and the Seven Generations Principle

Personal Financial Literacy and the Seven Generations

Principle prepares students to make informed financial

decisions through the study of earning income,

budgeting, saving, investing, credit, debt

management, banking services, taxes, and consumer

rights.

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While emphasizing practical application and goal setting, the course also integrates

the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) teaching of the Principle of Seven

Generations, which calls for decisions made today to benefit people far into the

future. By connecting financial literacy with this cultural framework of stewardship

and responsibility, students learn to view money management not only as a tool for

personal success in college, career, and adulthood, but also as a way to positively

impact families, communities, and generations to come.