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The article “Sharing One Skin” is a concept about how most native tribes and also pueblos religion and culture is based upon, that we are one with the Earth, that we are tied to the earth through our bodies, our minds and our spirits. In my community we all believe that everything around us and everything that was created has a spirit and it is tied to mother earth. The same goes for how we treat the animals that we hunt and use for food. When the animal has finally taken its last breath we pray asking that the animal be taken back by the spirit and asking that the animal give us all of its strengths to help us in life. Just being able to understand this philosophy helps us come to an understanding and reasoning on how to treat every living and non-living thing in this world but also how to treat OUR home. It helps to know how to take care of our home and that everything that was given can and will be taken away if not treated with the right intentions and with the right heart.
In the article “Toastie” the main idea behind the article is that a place can have many meanings and can hold a lot of value to someone who is connected to it either by the history that it holds or by personal reasons. For example my village and my tribe are all connected to me by personal and historical reasons, personal reasons are because that is where I have grown up, it is where I live so that is the sentimental value that it holds on me. The historical reason is that it is the place that my ancestors decided to gather and that they were going to stay and build rather than move on somewhere else. It has everything that we could have ever asked for, everything that we need for tradition, for everyday use or ceremonial us is surrounding us. Everything is just perfect where we are.
My personal connection to this topic is that I was raised by a single mother. As for my father I do not know where he was at during the period my mom was in labor and the 16 years that came after I was born. So I have first hand knowledge on what is like having to grow up without a dad and all the challenges that come with that type of situation. But growing up without a dad hasn’t stopped me from getting through and learning things on my own, I’ve done fine all on my own and that is what I am most proud of.
Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon to the south. Photo credit: Greg Willis from Denver, CO, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via
Pueblo Alto, Chaco Canyon to the south. Photo credit: Greg Willis from Denver, CO, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via
Multiple family dwellings, American Indian
For my first article, in this time period when a lot of families lived in these major complexes together, each one of them knew that it was more important to keep their family together rather than apart. Sometimes that doesn't always work out for example the Iroquois also known now as the Five Nations, back in the early 1600's they had some families living in different areas rather than together as a big family.
Keoke, Emory Dean, and Kay Marie Porterfield. “Multiple Family Dwellings, American Indian.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World, Second Edition, Facts On File, 2019. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=185987. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.
Demonstrators protesting in defense of the Indian Child Welfare Act outside the Supreme Court during oral arguments for Brackeen v. Haaland, Washington, D.C., November 9, 2022
Indian Child Welfare Act
This just shows a little bit of why ICWA is so important to native communities and native children. It helps with keeping native children to stay with their families and tribes or communities. And that for a child of a native american tribe is what is best for them, to have them stay in their community and grow up with their tradition and culture.
Sonneborn, Liz. “Document-Based Questions: Native American Boarding Schools and Assimilation.” Native American Boarding Schools and Assimilation, Facts On File, 2022. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=643654. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.
The Meriam Report. Image: Institute for Government Research
The Meriam Report. Image: Institute for Government Research
Doc:#6: A Report on How the Indian Boarding School Program Disrupted Indian Families
Each person who was taken as a child and put into a boarding school was forced to change and adapt to modern white men culture. In those schools they were made to speak english, dress the way white men did and act "proper". They also weren't allowed to speak their native language, if caught they would either get their hand beaten by a ruler as a punishment or just get beaten. They would never be the same ever again.
Ewen, Alexander, and Jeffrey Wollock. “Indian Child Welfare Act.” Encyclopedia of the American Indian in the Twentieth Century, Facts On File, 2014. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=359720. Accessed 22 Nov. 2023.
Action Plan I
My general idea for this was to get a group of men and meet up at
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