Sharing ones skin

In Community: Sharing one skin she talks about where she is from and who her people are. She talks about how she knows the land and it is her duty to protect it. She talks about how we are connected to the animals and the living plants. She says how the land and the language are the same. She says that the land is our flesh. I think that we are here to protect the land and not to harm it. We are connected to the land by our feet. Our land is really our language and if we are hurting our land we are hurting ourselves too. She says that we have to have a community. I think that the community is good for us because we have people to talk to and people to help us take care of the land.

Armstrong Jennette. “Community: Sharing One Skin.” Paradigm Wars Indigenous people’ Resistance to Globalization. Sierra Club Books. . print. Pp. 35-39.

Native American Identity

The Native American Identity talks about how her grandmother said we were going to be more like white people. She also says that native people are more connected to the land. She talks about how native americans and indian americans are different. She says that white privilege is not earned. They say that we have given up so much and yet we are still not treated the same.I think that we are more like white people, like how her grandma was saying. She says that we are connected to our past. The government did not keep some of the treaties we had and I think that is why we are on reservations. Some of the treaties that were kept for those tribes are now federally recognized tribes.

Horse G. Perry. “Native American Identity.” New Directions For Students Services. Wiley Periodicals.Inc. 2005. Print. Pp. 61-68.

In the article “These Hopi athletes are running boston for a larger mission” by Micah Ling the author talks about two hopi's, a brother and a sister, he talks about how they used to run cross country and track in high school. After high school they started their own lives and moved out of the reservation. A few years later their father died from cancer, the brother Wayne Sekaquaptewa had moved back to the reservation and he started to run the trails again to help him get over his fathers death. His sister Caroline Sekaquaptewa noticed he started running again so she started running again. They were running in marathons and they kept qualifying for the boston marathon. This gave their community some motivation to start running.

I really enjoyed this article because it talked about how the brother and sister found a way to stay connected and healthy. Their running started from high school and most people would give up and they found another way to keep running and doing the sport they love doing. They helped other people start running just by them going and running in different places so it gave other people motivation to go out.

Ling Micah. “These Hopi athletes are running Boston for a larger mission-and you can help.” Runner's World.Oct 8, 2021.Web.Oct 13, 2021. https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a37908126/hopi-runners-boston-marathon-indigenous-peoples-day/