Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Kohl, Paco and Jordan
I know this post is a little late and no one's really reading...But just for the sake of blogging, I wanted to say thank you to Kohl, Paco and Jordan for talking to our class last week! It has been very interesting getting a perspective from people who have experienced some of the issues brought up in our class first hand and it was very cool of them to take time out of their days to come here. Also, I just wanted to say with the course coming to an end, I am very happy with what I came away from it with. I would definitely recommend this class to others. :)
Artistic Response Presentations
I loved the fact that the final activity we did together as a class was the presentations of our artistic reflections. It was a great way to wrap up the course. It's always interesting to see how many different aspects can be covered on one subject when a large group of people are asked to reflect on it. All of the reflections I saw were so creative and interesting and I love the fact that we got to explore our creative side in a different way than I'm used to doing in an English class.
My paper: Indian Alcoholism
If anyone is interested, I thought I would share some links that I thought were interesting while doing my research:
http://www.naranorthwest.org/homepage.htm
http://whitebison.org/
http://www.naranorthwest.org/homepage.htm
http://whitebison.org/
10-15 page paper
I finished my paper about two weeks ago, I keep looking for things to fix but am at the point where I've picked the paper apart multiple times and can't find anything else. I hope I'm not overlooking anything. There's nothing worse than thinking you did well on an assignment and getting a bad grade back!
Friday, March 11, 2011
A little late but..
Since I wasn't able to make it to class Wednesday, I wanted to just share my feelings on the movie we watched on Monday. I had of course learned a little bit about the attempt to force Native Americans to assimilate,but there's just something different about hearing about it firsthand from someone who was actually involved. What was done to Native Americans in those boarding schools absolutely horrifies me. I just will never be able to wrap my mind around how a group of people can have the audacity to tell another group that who they are is "wrong." Racial discrimination just strikes a special chord with me because my mother is from Colombia, and I could never imagine someone wanting to inflict any harm on her simply because of the fact that she was different.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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