in the article sharing one skin Jeannette comes from and is proud member of the Okanagon tribe located in British Columbia, where the mountains are seperated by the long river beds. she speaks on her experience with discovering herself and  who she has become as a person throught her life and experiences with the world that surrounds her. She really emphasizes the importance of the land and how no one "ownes" the land and how we are just  borrowing it. A quote that really stuck out to me in this article was "I cannot be seperated from my place or my land", this quote really speaks with volume and it shows the passion she has for who she is and where she comes from.  Jeannette strongly talks about how she connects to the land of  where she comes from, an also educating on how importnant it is to know where you come from. As you read on you she emphasizes how she feels emotionally about how poeple are treating the land with no respect and how these new ways of poeple need to change. she really emphasizes the importance of going back to the old ways of living, when the land meant something to the people. 

The article speaks about importance of names of real places and how they are viewed. many places or historical sights are named after settlers who came to America and supposedly found and discovered "new" land. When the "newly" discovered land was named after those settlers a story came along with it, and many times those story favor one side of the battles that were fought. Most of times I believe that the stories tend to leave out the history of Native Americans. Many are simply blinded by the simple facts of history all because the system is tought only what they are told. This artlicle really speaks to me on different levels because i can personally relate to things that are being said in the article. My family has always taught me to know who i am and where i come from as a person.

This article speaks on the behalf of the struggles of native American during the time of the Dawes Act of 1887. According to the article many native americans were lead to believe that a deal made by the government was to put into place in order to help Native Americans Adapt and evolve as a society. Many noticed the true intentions of the "Americans" but many were also blinded into becoming a less sovereign nation or tribe. Five tribes that fell into the control of the "Americans" were Cherokees, Crees, Choctaw, Chickasaws, and the Seminoles. These tribes from then on, were known as the "5 Civilized Tribes". These civilized tribes were only allowed to stay because they choose to follow the guidelines set by outsiders, solely falling into the "white" culture. Many tribes and sovern nations fought to keep their ways but many were forced to forced to adapt.  Americans did everything and a more to assure they got ride of our culture and our history. Many tribes that only knew how to migrate with their food were forced to settle because of the laws being put. The Dawes act strictly created laws that were heavily in favor of getting rid of the native american culture. The Act intented to split the communities of natives and forced them to "assimilate" to the "American Culture". Overtime the Native Americans begin to struggle to keep and maintain their lands. many also faced struggles of inheritance because many of the children were taken to boarding schools. This problems slowly added up overtime forcing native Americans to "give up" their land because governement policies or requirements that were not met. This eventually causing natives to leave their original homelands, many of those lands being sacred to those people. Therefore allowing "Settlers" to come in and buy the land off, ultimately showing the true intentions of the "white American" Culture. I really enjoyed the article because I was able to relate to it to some sort of degree. Ofcourse our experiences are no where near as harsh those before us but this doesn't mean the same thing isn't happening to us. the world we live in has evolved but the true intentions will always lie beneath the thin surface. we Native Americans still live in poverty, having to rely on government funding. No longer forced upon us but embedid in our minds that we need help from the "American" culture in order to survive, in order to thrive. they lead us to believe without them both our worlds with fail, as they already have done to us before.

The article speaks on the behalf of the native Americans and their struggles with the Indian removal act of 1830.  The act was placed May 28, 1830, the act being first sponsored by committie member senator Hugh White. originally the plan was promoted by Georgia which at the time, had only intentions of annexing Indian lands and territories. During the time America was being run by president Andrew Jakcson, this act became one of his most devoted projects during his time as president. Although Native Americans such as the cherokees fought endlessly to overturn the Act but nothing could have changed the minds of those who only have power on their mind. Native Americans were forcely removed from their lands and required to walk themselves to their new homelands which is now known as modern day "Oklahoma". up to 60% of natives American populations where fored to the southeast nearly 60,000 thousand, and 25% of  those Many Native Americans lossed their lives due to the creulity of others and the harsh conditions they had to deal with when walking to their "new" lands. the article also highlights the uprising of the leglislation and how it came about. In the end the article also talks about the long lasting impacts on native Americans communities, and how they striving to fill those missing gaps and cure those generational traumas brought upon them.