Sharing One Skin

After reading “Sharing One Skin” it talked about the four main capacities of operating all together. They are the physical self, the emotional self, the thinking intellectual self, and the spiritual self. Those four main capacities of ourselves all have equal importance of how we function and experience things. The physical self talks about how you have to respect your body and how the world sees us as a person. The emotional self is about everyone and how we are all connected through each other by our hearts and saying how everybody is all one with the surroundings within us. The thinking intellectual self is how you think about things and make memories. The last one which is the spirit self is how we view ourselves as a person, and it is the true selves of us powerful we are in our own way.

Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books, 1996. Pp 460-470

"Indigenous"Vacit, Mikaylee. Personal Photo. 5 October 2021

Native American Identity

This article Perry G. Horse, expresses how we are not white people, although we are a lot like them. the article is about the reader telling us of the Native American Identity of Natives possibly doing things the white peoples way. By really following their tradition anymore, and just basically following what they do. If we agree to change Native American for American Identity then that means we have to make a connection. It is also about how the Native people have threats being made to them by the white people mostly stereotypes, popular press, racial comments and a lot more threats.

Horse, Perry G. “Native American Identity.” New Directions for Student Services, no. 109, © Wiley Periodicals, Inc, 2005. Pp. 61-68.

"Power of Culture" Vacit, MiKaylee. Personal Photo. 6 October 2021

American Indian Language and Culture Revitalization

What I read about was different Indian Pueblos sharing a little bit about their culture and language. There were three different Indigenous Groups, each were similar to each one and were similar to each other. The Maoris of New Zealand talked about their children not talking their language and only a few of them were. To decrease the language loss in their community the leaders decided that they would have a language class with the elders since they speak and know more of their language. With the Hawaiian People they got to teach their language in the schools until

Reyhner, Jon Allan. “American Indian Language and Culture Revitalization.” Education and Language Restoration, Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2019. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=185140. Accessed 8 Oct. 2021.

"The Zuni Language." University of New Mexico. 1 November 2018. http://news.unm.edu/news/using-modern-technology-to-preserve-the-zuni-language

Indian Language Use

This article gave information about all the number of speakers of the Indian Language. It also mentions that in the 20th century a few Indians are not able to speak their language but also a good percentage of Indians can not speak English. The Census Bureau says that 322,054 Indian Speakers as of 2000 in the United States.

Ewen, Alexander, and Jeffrey Wollock. “Indigenous Language Use.” 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=359713. Accessed 8 Oct. 2021.

"Native American Day" Nahohai, Amanda. 26 September 2019

The Loss of Native American Languages

This video is based on how the Lakota Tribe are acting fast and doing whatever it takes to save their ways of life. Their language slowly fades away because of all racist acts in their communities. Ever since the pandemic hit they thought that it'd be too late knowing that the virus was taking the lives of all the elders. Like as mentioned in the video, ¨they take their knowledge and understanding with them¨ meaning once they're gone it's too late to learn. Lakotas do as much as they can to have their language published in the books, they also have dictionaries that are used in school. Most importantly they encourage the adults to share as much of the language and traditions they know to the younger generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyKXda5dJw4&list=WL&index=8

"Power of the Drum" Nahohai, Amanda. 23 October 2021

American Indian Languages

This article is about how many scholars are going into research and discovering why indigenous languages keep fading away. They start way back from when Christopher Columbus had first arrived to America, it was said that there were approximately 1,000 American Indian languages spoken now there are 300 spoken to this day. The scholars thought that in order for Native American to save their languages is to go back to the way the ancestors had taught the language because one generation could lose it all.

White, Frederick. “American Indian Languages.” Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature, Second Edition, Facts On File, 2013. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=27846. Accessed 5 Nov. 2021.

"MiKaylee' Pose" Tsadiasi, Don. Photography. 13 November 2021

Preservation of American Indian Languages

This short passage reflects on the importance of language from being gone forever. It is said that there are 50 languages strongly spoken and among those 50 are Navajos. After the Native American Language Act of 1990 was created many tribes did so much to learn and gain back their language and to speak it fluently.

Waldman, Carl. “Preservation of American Indian Languages.” Atlas of the North American Indian, Third Edition, Facts On File, 2009. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=190307. Accessed 10 Nov. 2021.

"Chocolate Cake" Vacit, MiKaylee. Personal Photo. 3 December 2021

The Loss of Indigenous Languages

This short video reflected about all the Indigenous languages that are at risk of extinction. It said that one Indigenous Language dies every two weeks because the indigenous people are threatened. About 70 million of the Indigenous people only depend on the natural environment that they live in. Once the language is lost a major piece of their identity, history, culture gets lost too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2cnEGR8w88

"Bandelier National Monument" Vacit, MiKaylee. Personal Photo. 25 March 2022

Leaving no one Behind, Indigenous Peoples and the Call for a New Social Contact

This article is about how the United Nations are coming together and working on making a contract. The contract is specifically thought of because of how many indigenous communities across the world lived in poverty during the whole pandemic. After Covid-19 pandemic it was brought out to the United Nations that there were many inequities. The population was affected due to the poverty indigenous suffered including the illness. The United Nations wants to help all communities have that social right where Indigenous communities are able to understand what's going on throughout the world because many communities lacked access to appropriate health care and information about the circus during the pandemic.

"International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples" United Nations. 9 August. https://www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-day

"Map of the Most Spoken Indigenous Languages in Mexico" Eugenio de la Vega. Blog Xcaret. 13 July 2020 https://blog.xcaret.com/en/map-of-the-most-spoken-indigenous-languages-in-mexico/

Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19: The View from Mexico

This article is about the struggle the Indigenous Communities face during the pandemic. Problems they faced were having the proper health care, getting internet access for school, and lacking nutrition. The people who spoke their language very fluently lived in high poverty just because they never had anyone to translate what was happening in the world. The ones who spoke fluent English were the ones who lived in less poverty but still suffered a bit. The UNESCO offices in Mexico are working to help all the communities so that every home is able to have equal opportunities.

"Indigenous Peoples and COVID-19: The View from Mexico" Pineda, Irma. UNESCO. 7 August 2020.

"Consequences and Remedies of Indigenous Language Loss in Canada" Khawaja, Masud. University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8, Canada. 2 August 2021. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/11/3/89/htm

Consequences and Remedies of Indigenous Language Loss in Canada

This article is about how most of the languages across Canada are doing what they can to save their language and not let it die out. There is an average of 500 fluent speakers still left and mostly 40-70 of people are speaking a little of the Indigenous language. Elders are mostly depended on the most due to the fact they are the last that know the most words.

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