In the article, "Sharing one skin  

In the article “sharing one skin, “ by Jeanette Armstrong, how she describes physical self is, “by the continuous interactions of everything around us.” She says that the emotional self is what makes you human and it’s the bonds you from others and the surroundings. The way she explains the thinking-intellectual self is “a spark that ignites” and the way she explains it is armstrong discrides, “this is the trub self and it has great power The way I connect to the article and identity is the four capacities of self. the way I connect it to the capacities of self is by touching everything to identify what's around me, and how I connect to the Emotional Self is by letting my emotions flow, feeling free. 

In the article,   how place names impact the way we see landscape

The article tells us about place Identity, “place identity” is someone's “personal identity in relation to the physical environment”. How the Dine would describe “place identity” would be that the land, water, and air has a spirit and an identity.  It can also affect the stories of the land as well as the history. The stories can be from the land such as a war on the land. This article made me think of the importance of the name for a land. It made me think of how in my tradition we honor the land and treat it like a living thing. The name of a land is also the history of it.  The name also tells a story about what happened on the land.

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The main topic of this story is about living in two different worlds and finding your Identity between them. The story Talks about a man growing up and coaching and the experience he has outside of the village, such as school. He dislikes school  and considers it a foreign place that felt to belittle his own way of living.As he grew up he started to accept it and embrace both sides. In this article some of the experiences were relatable. It reminded me of the hardships that the past Generations had to go through and pushed on to my generation. All that happened to him has left him feeling bad about himself. he says, “I was ashamed of being who I was ”And I connected to that because growing up I felt the same way going to public schools.

Origami: the traditional Arts of paper folding ,  in this article it talks about how origami originated. It started in China from the invention of paper. Through Trading paper was able to make its way to Japan, Although China was already experimenting with folding, Japan is where it first truly started. It is sad that Buddhist monks were the first to come up with the idea and presented it to Emperors and ceremonial practices such as marriages funerals and celebrations How I connected to this article was through dimensional ceremonial uses for origami. This is somewhat similar to my topic of how it can help stress. Buddhist monks used origami as a form of Calming the mind and bringing joy to others by showing it off.

The public paper folding history project, This article talks about how origami  became more widespread because of instruction books to show how to fold.Through these instructions help Spark the idea for new folding techniques that will later make more intricate origami. At the time a book that had origami instructions was published to the public. This gave origami the first step to being more known throughout the world. How I connect to this article is by thinking that if this never happened origami Wouldn't be as known as it is today. This was a way for origami to be known for common people such as myself. By origami being more common people were able to find more ways to use it as a form of therapy. 

japanese art- where did Origami come from this video tells us the  history of origami. It started with the invention of paper in China and by that time too the Chinese was also experimenting with folding. Paper and ideas were traded to the Japanese. Then the Japanese perfected it, but it was expensive, only the elets and releges people could learn how to fold. How I connected this video  to my topic was through the history and origins of origami. it explains how it was also used in ceremonial use and other events.  when it became more known to the public, ordinary people  were able to finally learn it and use it as a form of relation