This article explores how landscapes often have a story or connection to their names. The author highlights Indigenous views towards the subject. Indigenous people have different approaches to some landscapes. They view landscapes with more respect and honor. Many stories are shared about the landscapes and their connection and meaning to communities.

Toastie, B. How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape. High Country News, 1 May 2022.

And then I went to school, ¨ by Joe Suina is a short story about his childhood and how he struggles with identity as a young native boy. He grew up surrounded by his Native Community. As he gets older, he begins to attend school, which changes the way he views himself and his surroundings. The school system is challenging his values, opinions, and views. He returns to his home community for a break and reconnects with his native identity, and has some realizations about his Native identity.

Suina, Joe. (1985) And then I went to School; Memories of a Pueblo Childhood. New Mexico Journal of Reading, 5 (2).

¨Sharing One Skin¨ by Jeanette Armstrong is an article about the differences in Okanagan culture and modern societies. She talks about the four main capacities that operate together. Those are the physical, emotional, thinking, intellectual, and spiritual selves. Within this article, she goes into detail about each self and how the Okanagan Community views each.

Armstrong, Jeannette, 1996 ¨sharing one skin: The Okanagan Community.¨ pg. 460-470 in Jerry Manders and Edward Goldsmith (eds.)

Commerce, Trade, and Free people are all over the world, but this article focuses on countries in the Americas, divided into North America (including Central America and the Caribbean). I focused on the mainland of Spanish America, the British Caribbean, and Brazil. These countries have a rich history of business and economic development. 

The British Caribbean had the most highly developed Sugar Cultivation regions. Whites dominated wholesale and international commerce in the British world. During the 18th-19th century, there was less opportunity for black-owned businesses

Throughout the mainland of Spanish America, free people of color did not commonly own commercial businesses; some free Afro-Mexicans and Afro-Peruvians owned businesses. It was mostly skilled tradesmen selling their services or products they manufactured, because most slaves were taken to work in manufacturing rather than agriculture. Once they were established in a trade, guild restrictions meant that one was more or less guaranteed a good living and the right to pass on one's business to one's heirs. Going into bigger business or getting involved in other lines of work, like an entrepreneur of a later century, was not encouraged by society or laws.

King, Stewart. “Commerce, Trade, and Free People of Color in the Americas.” Encyclopedia of Free Blacks and People of Color in the Americas, Facts On File, 2012. Modern World History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE53&articleId=570530.

This article is about the poverty in Bangladesh. Muhammad Yunus created a form of credit that allows poor people to borrow small amounts of money. Due to all the money being paid back right away, the term "micro credit" was a success. Due to the success of this, many opportunities became available to people of this poor community in Bangladesh. All the beneficial factors took place in this community. This article falls into the category of community and economic development, which allows poor communities to nourish and thrive by using their own knowledge and authority. "Hereditary poverty could be broken." This quote stood out to me because it supports the idea that poverty can be passed through generations, but it can be prevented. Through community efforts and participation, an issue can be solved permanently or for a period of time.

Stefania Yunus, Muhammad. “Muhammad Yunus Commonwealth Lecture: "Poverty Was All around Me"” Primary Source Documents: 2000 to 2009, Facts On File, 2003. Modern World History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE53&primarySourceId=7428.

According to this article, we shift and focus more onto the numbers and rates, such as the employment rates and gross value. The article gave an introduction and a summary of the SME Business Environment in Europe. Competition is the essential ingredient in the European business environment. It encourages businesses to make efficient use of resources. People will patronize efficient businesses rather than their inefficient rivals, so the efficient firms flourish and the inefficient ones go out of business. The small business sector is regarded as a fundamental ingredient in the establishment of a modern, progressive and vibrant economy. There are a number of reasons why there is considerable interest in the creation, management, dynamics, and contribution of small businesses. Such as small firms help to diversify a nation’s economic base and provide it with the opportunity of responding to a variety of market conditions;  the creation of a new business venture provides an opportunity to transcend social inequality and the unemployment trap;  the presence of small firms in an economy is an expression of healthy and necessary competition against the excesses of big business and monopoly power and exploitation;  small firms are better able to adapt to changing and sometimes disruptive economic circumstances. Due to its flexibility, the sector is in an advantageous position to face challenges and changes. It is ideally poised to attract both technology and funds to generate rapid growth and sustained process of technology upgradation and quality improvement.

Anca Stan, 2014. "The Role Of Small Business In Economic Development Of European Economy," Studies and Scientific Research. Economics Edition, "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau, Faculty of Economic Sciences, issue 19. https://ideas.repec.org/a/bac/fsecub/14-19-19.html