Throughout the story “Sharing One Skin” Jeannette Armstrong talks about her tribal beliefs of the Okanagan tribe. On the first two pages the narrator descriptively talks about their home/ tribal lands, on the land formations, climate and the location of the tribal lands. Which are located in British Columbia, Canada. Jeannette begins talking about humanity and how we are all connected with the earth, she also talks about “The Four Capacities of Life” Physical self, Emotional self, Thinking Intellectual self, and the spiritual self. Jeannette then goes on talking about the importance of each life form and how they coincide with each other and their connections to the earth. Throughout the article, Jeannette mostly talks about community. She states that the dream parts of ourselves form our community, and that community loosely translates to “Having one Covering”. The community bonds are strong as she stated “I know how Powerful, The solidarity is of peoples bound together by land, blood, and love” (Armstrong, 469, 470).

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.

The story starts off by talking about Valentina Blackhorse, a member of the Navajo tribe. Valentina always read books about her own culture and learned from other tribal members. About issues that her tribe is facing like land protection and the elderly. She also wanted for some position on the Navajo council or even for president of the Navajo nation. Members of her community saw that she was helpful and had a lot of knowledge. But sadly she died of covid-19 in April 2020 and left behind a boyfriend and 1 year old daughter. Then the story/article ends off with talking about her younger days and her growing up.

Iati, M. (2020, May 09). She dreamed of leading the Navajo NATION 'WITH respect and dignity.' then she CAUGHT COVID-19. Retrieved May 06, 2021, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/09/navajo-woman-dies-of-coronavirus-at 28/

The Movie “Indian Horse” is a movie that takes place in Canada during the 1970’s. During this time period many natives were taken from their tribes and families and were being sent to catholic schools, to divert them from their native way of life. The movie follows a boy named Saul Indian Horse and shows what life was like for him inside one of the many catholic schools and leads up into his adulthood. During his Time at the school he, like many others, was abused by the nuns and priests for talking in their native language. There were some deaths at that school as one of the children was forced to stay in a cage, The little girl started banging her head on the metal cage out of desperation to escape and later she died of the trauma. Once she passed the person who cared for her soon became very depressed and decided to take her own life with Saul watching from a distance. The movie then shows his hockey career which he was very good at and shows the events leading up to his alcohol abuse later in his life. During the ending he was missioned to visit the place where it all fell apart, a little camp in the forest where he and his family stayed and where his brother passed away, to try to get his mind together before returning to the family that got him out of the catholic school in the beginning.

Wagamese, Richard. Indian Horse : a Novel. Vancouver, BC :Douglas & McIntyre, 2012.

The article talks about mental health in different native communities and brings up many quotes from other authors and articles. All of the quotes talk on the issues more prevalent in native communities like language loss, as well as mentioning titles on women healing and making native communities a better place. Along with mentioning mental healing with families or in groups and saying that it's useful for understanding different conditions and impacts in other communities.

Pettigrew, Dawn Karima. Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans, Speaking in Red, Native American Times ;

Tulsa, Okla. [Tulsa, Okla]20 Apr 2005: 6.

The article talks on the murder and kidnaping of native peoples from various tribes and nations. Then goes on to talk about the historical trauma of colonization of native tribes and explains how we were looked at by others as savages and un colonized. The article then talks on the living conditions of poverty and how it contributes to the diminishment of mental health in Native Americans. And ends with listing the factors that lowers good mental health which then leads to sometimes substance abuse.

Cohen, Alex. The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples: An International Overview, Cultural Survival Quarterly ; Cambridge

Vol. 23, Iss. 2, (Jul 31, 1999): 18.