Research log 1: Identity

I Went to School

The article titled "I went to school" by joe suina highlights Joe Suina's experience going to school when native children were abused when speaking his native language. He also talks about how the feelings he felt when going to school and what changed him as person

MY Connection:

My connection to the article is through my own grandparents. My grandparents had an all to similar experience with Joe Suina and the many other native children experiencing traumatic events. The mental health of native children going to school in that point in time had forever affected them causing my grandparents to not talk about their experiences and letting it boil to the point of anger and depression. Who could blame them?

Sharing one Skin:

This article, “Sharing One Skin,” is the okanagan way of describing the mind and body. It explains 4 parts of the body in the okanagan perspective. The article explains each of these and their significance to us and the universe. It is what the okanagan have perceived the emotional self as the part where we make connections with people and flows with our hearts. The physical is thought of as us being one with earth. The thinking-intellectual self is described in the okanagan language as “ the spark that ignites us” and how we as people chase that spark.

My topics connection to this article is how there are different parts of our selves mental health can either make a break those parts. The emotional self I would say can be affected by mental illness by severing that connection with others or giving the utmost courage to speak out and making our connections stronger. The thinking-intellectual self is said to drive us to chase a “spark” that we see and sometimes it can be snuffed out and we no longer have the drive to chase it.

Landscaped Memories:

The article titled “How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape” is about how landscapes hold a special place in our hearts and lives. The article states that if a landscape is given a name we are less likely to destroy or pollute it. Other names can give a landscape an all different meaning for example “El Capitan” a name for where the Mariposa Battalion, and indian killing militia had their first conquest. Names can either be a place of happy or dark memories for us and it is up to us how we treat those landscapes

My interpretation from the article is memories hold a special connection to our communities by either the stories our elders tell us about them or individually by feelings or memories.Places in the indigenous view are sacred and cannot just be taken for granted, unlike the more western Point of view. Stories,feelings and memories connects us to landscapes with each other as well as our communities. The sacredness of landscapes shape our way of life and indigenous cultural views. The same can be said for our mental health with good and bad memories. It is how we deal with these feelings and how we as native people can persevere through them.

Research log 2: History And Opression

Generational Trauma:
1. 1. The article “Indians of North American Conflict And Survival” by
Frank w . porter 111 in paragraph 2 “ all too often they attempted to change the way of life of indigenous peoples”. The article talks about how events of history inflicted on native americans throughout the european colonization period. The article goes into detail about the effects ranging from generational trauma to PTSD and how it effects native american mental health from then to now. The article also states how generational trauma has a profound impact on native americans that runs deep.
1. 1. Mental health was always an issue not talked about. Since then this issue has become more of a conservation rather than brushed off. The topic of mental health was seen as a “ in your head problem” and was just left at that, rather than understanding what and how it works. For native americans mental health became a untalked about issue due to the many generations of trauma that opens deep wounds that have been inflicted on our people. Some which include depression,PTSD, and dissociative disorders. The conditions were brought about by the forced removal of our people from our lands and homes. When these events occurred it left an impact felt from passed generations to today’s.
1. 2. A History of Mental Health:
  3. This article is about a man named Clifford W. Beers who was one of the first people to advocate for mental health awareness being that he himself has gone through it. Clifford had turned a personal struggle into a national movement by later establishing the “Connecticut society for mental hygiene” as that what is was called before the term mental health. The article reads that Clifford had seen first hand how inhumane institutions were to mental health patients and he wanted to expose their treatments and reform how they operated to better help patients. Clifford W. Beers would change how america and the world viewed mental health and bring awareness to the issue
  4. My connection the source is that mental health is not really talked about in my community and as well as others i’m sure. In reality many people especially the older folks do not really have a full understanding of it. But my connection is I want to bring awareness to the topic and get rid of the stigma that surrounds it. I also struggle with anxiety and it makes things really difficult sometimes and I want to show that even though it may not look like someone is going through something and does not say anything they are.

Mental Health Stigma:

The video from PBS talks about how mental health has always been a stigma in society and has prevented many people who struggle with one to seek help. The video showcases how throughout history mental health was seen and dealt with from medieval times all the way to now. The video shows how mental health was dealt with and how institutions were created to help individuals with mental illnesses. In the late 17th century mental health illness was looked at as a form of demonic possession or witchcraft wich started the whole stigma around mental health.

My interpretation from this video is that the whole topic of mental health and illness if often looked at as a bad thing when in reality it is about learning what people who struggle go through. With the stigma surrounding mental health it can be hard for people to get help in fear of being ridiculed or shunned by family, friends, and other people. But ultimately that way of thinking has changed over the years and has become more looked at in an understanding way rather than having this stigmatized view on it.

Research log 3: Current state of the Issue

Mental health continues to be a rising problem for many teens and young adults and has since become a topic for discussion over the years. Anxiety and depression continue to be the most common of mental health problems and such has many impacts on people.

Our Mothers:

The article published by the University of Cincinnati states that maternal stress can impact a growing baby’s neuro development. The article says that with these new findings in can potentially open a gateway on how we as people understand the roots of how neurodevelopment starts and how it can be beneficial to us. The study found that stressors from financial, conflict with a partner or family member and or death lead to DNA methylation in the umbilical cord of the mothers.

My thoughts on this are it is very interesting find especially for mother who are experiencing these stressors while pregnant. To find that there is a shift in development caused by stress and to actually pinpoint where it happens is really important to understand just how we as people. And children are so easily affected by things in life that it can alter our state of well being

Most common mental illnesses:

In an online article from the university of georgia published by Science Daily reads that anxiety and depression are the most common of mental health cases. It also adds that it effects different ethnicities differently from one another. The article reads that students from other ethnic groups other than white american at predominantly white colleges have higher rates of depression than their white peers.

This article is particularly interesting by showing how mental health can affect us all differently. My thoughts on this are that it is a good way to show how people are different but one whole. This can shed light on the fact that many people especially in an unfamiliar environment such as school,work, or anywhere can take a toll on their wellbeing such as thinking they do not feel as if they belong.

More money,more help?:

The article from and published by states news service highlights that a new recent bill has been passed to give $63 million dollars to schools around the country and two in new mexico for more emotional, educational, mental and social support for students and their families as well as educators. The article reads that this will hopefully help students grow

My take on this article is it is a very helpful thing that the U.S government has done. This is a step in a right direction to help the most vulnerable to mental health like students. The money would benefit students with academics as well further supporting our children even more.

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This article highlights a dark time in a university The university of England experienced a mental health crisis it shook the university to its core. The crisis was 6 students who took their lives in a span of 7 months. The university's faculty felt responsible to find out what caused

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