As a young pueblo girl growing up, I had very few Native teachers that taught me in my Elementary years. I would love to see more Native teachers that resemble me who educate Native students. Also growing up I always wanted to become a teacher and to try to give back to my community the knowledge that I was taught. My parents and family acknowledge my personal goals and support my pursuit. 

The Summary for Armstrong, In the article "Sharing one skin" by Jeanette Armstrong is when forming a bond particular aspect of the surrendering. They are also tied to one another by the bond. The identity is involved in a story of how there were things where they talk about how language is taught and that there are some words that are not in English for the Okanagan people. They also say that they cannot be separated from their place or land, a very powerful message. Also when forming a bond particular aspect of their surrounding and creating tied bonds with humans. 

The summary about this may connect with me a little but there are some things that don't really say as much. The way I understood the article was how identity was more in the story and like ways of how a tribe is really connected to their tribe in some ways. I know I speak my language because it's important to me and there are memories that they hold in our communities. I know we all have some same kind of heritage in our bodies where we learn. The things that we are taught are respect, love, and care for in our communities. 

Memories and stories are connected to our land as described by, B. Toastie in the article, ¨How place names impacted the way we see landscape¨, The way we see landscape is Mountains, Valleys, and a lot of Climate Change. We also have animals, trees, and plants. Also there are some sacred sites in the area. 

My Summary of the story ¨ And Then I Went to School¨ was very powerful and painful. For me to understand what the man went through was scary and how he lost his language. Also the teacher did very bad things to him. It talks about a man named Joe Suina from Cochiti Pueblo. He talks about a story of how he grew up with his grandmother who didn't have electricity in the early fifties. Him and his grandmother lived beside the plaza in a one room house where he worked hard doing his chores for grandmother. They would go visit family and children would play outside and Adults would talk about the latest news of the Pueblo. Then one day Joe went to school at the community at age six. The first thing Joe noticed was the teacher does not have pretty brown skin and colorful dress, they also were forced to not speak their language. Even in class they were really being mistreated if they did things wrong.Then  Joe took off to the BIA school where he left his tradition and communities, as he was in school he learned English more and more. One day he got to go home to his community for Thanksgiving break where he was feeling weird and it was a small area, with lack of water, stuffy, and two small houses. 

This summary really makes me connected with it because just hearing all the things Joe Sunia went try from not knowing how to speak English to getting whacked with a ruler. He was a happy child living and doing things with his grandmother getting all the attention and doing things for grandma like chores. I am sure he was tough and really learned from grandmother. After he headed to school he was really mistreated and for many reasons. For me I would sure think of him as a powerful person because of all the things he tries and losing a big part of his culture . Yes I understand in today's world they make us go to school to get a great education for work to jobs, and etc..  Also it was very sad to read the article and learn the things Joe went thru his life at boarding school.