This article was about how it feels to be indian. Armstrong speaks about how families are stronger together. She states “ I cannot be separated from my place or my land”. From what she hand said about this was to tell that whenever we think about home we will always be ourselves and the same we are today. 

Arm strong. Jeanette. 1996” sharing one skin: The okangun community”. Pp. 460-470 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds.) The case Against the Global Economy, sun Franco, CA: sierra club books. 

This article talks about the names of our sacred lands (mountains, land, trails, rivers). How they hold our stories and history. The names of these places have changed over time and most of the sared names have been forgotten. The author says,” …repeating colonizer's names keeps the trauma of dispossession fresh…”. We relive this trauma everytime we see or say the colonizer’s names on our lands. 

“How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape”. High country News -Know the West, 1 May 2022 

Michigun school Shooter’s Parents will stand trial on Involuntary Manslaughter charges 

A 15 year old teen shot four students and some of them were fatally shot. They said that the person, Ethan Cumbley,was ignoring his mental health needs. They were telling tht he was the one that had a mental health disorder and since shortly after the shooting, unable to afford a $500,000 bond. 

Date, S.V.” Michigan school shooter’s parents will stand trial on involuntary Manslaughter charges…” 

Biden Creates New White House Office of Gun Violence 

Guns have become the leading cause of death for American children, with nearly 1,300 dying from firearms so far this year. The mortality rate for childhood gun deaths in the U.S. is 70 times that in Canada, the country with the next highest rate. Largest number of people killed in mass shootings since 2006. As of this week there have been at least 35 mass killings in the year 2023. 

Date, S.V’ Biden creates New white House office of gun violence Prevention…”

Current State of the Issue:

Children and Guns 

“This is a public health issue. It’s the number one killer of kids in this country. And I’m sure it’s going to continue to be the number one killer of kids in 2022. And maybe in 2023. It’s not going away,” Dr. Chethan Sathya,

Americans believe Guns keep them Safe 

Sixty percent of Americans believe it’s true that armed school police guards have been proved to prevent school shootings. Eighteen percent of respondents thought the claim was “definitely” true and 42% believed it “probably” true.

Gun deaths by Country 

The ten countries with the highest gun death rates are El Salvador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia, Hondurus, Brazil, Puerto Rico,The Bahamas, the United States Virgin islands, and  Mexico. El Salvador has the rate of 35.5 gun deaths per 100,000 people. Venezuela has the second highest gun death rate, with a rate of 32.75. It is followed by Guatemala, with 28.23 gun deaths per 100,000 people. It has the fifth highest gun death rate. Brazil follows closely with a rate of 20.8 gun deaths per 100,000 people. 

2022 Update of the small Arms Surevy’s Global Violent Deaths 

The GVD database collects data on homicides and direct conflict deaths into a single violent death indicator, dating back 2004. In its 2022 update, estimating lethal violence in the year 2020,2022, the database reveals that the global rate of violent deaths decreased from 9.1 per 100,000 people to 6.8 per 100,000 people between 2016 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 2020. In total 531,000 people died violently in 2020, out of which 40 per cent (211,000) were killed by firearms.