In the reading “Sharing One Skin” Okanagan Community by Jeannette Armstrong. The author was talking about the concepts of blood ties within the community and the instinct to protect our individual selves and to reach out to everyone who shares the same skin tone. Jeannette explains in the reading that the global economy sort of robs us of our full humanity. In the reading the grandmother said that “The people down there are dangerous and are all insane” the father also agreed with the grandmother.

In the reading “Native American Identity” by Perry G. Horse (Kiowa). Perry G. Horse describes the five influences on self identity as a Indian. Throughout the story Perry G. Horse gives the extent grounded in one’s Native American language and culture, and one’s self concepts as an American Indian and the lack of one’s enrollment in a tribe. In the first paragraph he says that “Someday we’re all going to be like white people.” I think this means that he is trying to tell readers that the way they are living right now they are going to be living like white people. He also says that “There is no standard descriptor, or nomenclature for identifying those who called himself American Indian or Native American

In the reading “Indiginous Continuance” by Simon J. Ortiz he talks about how us indiginous people know ourselves within the world that we have cultural knowledge. Simon Ortiz also says that our indiginous worldview encompasses our identity, our identity as indiginous peoples is founded on our indiginous worldview and it arises from that worldview as a result we are no other cultural human beings but who we are as indiginous peoples.

The American Indian Quarterly, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2011, pp. 285-293 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press

In the reading “Rethinking Native American Language Revitalization '' by Fredrick White, he says that as many linguists continue to work with analyzing First Nations/Native American languages, the consensus opinion usually direly predicts the loss of daily use for almost all of the extant Indiginous languages. Frederick White also says by reversing language shift and language loss is a crucial issue in many Native American communities.

The American Indian Quarterly, Volume 30, Number 1&2, Winter/Spring 2006, pp. 91-109 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press

In the reading “Nearly Gone, But Not Forgotten” by Kelsey Klug she talks about how Native Americans lost control of their children's education over a century ago, when the United States government began forcibly enrolling Native American students in residential schools. She talks about how the government's policy was designed to assimilate Native children into “American”. She also says that many communities want to revitalize their languages,but they face the formidable obstacle of raising a generation to speak their heritage language as their first language.

Klug, Kelsey . Cultural Survival Quarterly ; Cambridge Vol. 36, Iss. 3, (Sep 2012): 12-13.