Sharing One Skin:

In the first article I got more of a personal read from it. The story went in depth about the author and what she was taught growing up. She reflects on how we as human beings are all one with the earth pretty much breaking down the meaning of us, for us. Reading this really opened up a different mindset and made me think more about how not all cultures are so different.

My interpretation of the article is simple. It's about culture and us as people. The author goes in depth about our skin being one with the earth and so forth. It gives an insight of cultures from the two tribes, the land and water tribes. Not only this but about human beings all being connected to the earth and each other more than we know. Making everyone of us not so different from each other.

Native American Identity:

This article focuses pretty much on white privilege. The author talks about their families' experiences with dealing with the issue. Not exactly personally but they talk about how they see it affect not only them but everyone around them. He explains white privilege in different ways such as how it changed everything in general and even how some whites may use it to their extent. Lastly it goes over how native people in the US don't really feel as they "fit in" or how they realize how different it is than what they may have grown up with.

What I got from this was a different perspective but the same feelings. I'd say I agree with pretty much everything the author talks about. Not only that but feeling it myself as well, seeing how it almost changes you or people you know in both good and bad ways. Also feeling like us as native people don't fall in the same category" as some white people may see themselves in.

Summarizing it is pretty much the whole article going over how us as Natives were simply just forgotten as things began changing drastically.

Reclaiming my Femininity:

The first article I selected is called "Reclaiming My Femininity." I thought this was a good short article because the author pretty much talks about exactly what I want to go over. How society sees her as a woman, and how she feels she has to go about herself especially in public and more specifically in front of men. As the story progresses she talks about how in college she finds the perfect group where she can express herself and not feel judged. She also talks about how it empowered her more to talk on how women are treated in society. And toward the end she explains countries run by women showed to deal with this pandemic were now in a much neater way and these countries have some of the lowest numbers with the covid numbers.

Connecting this to me, I would just say I relate in a way to what she sees, how women are conflicted on whether or not they should be themselves. Not so much physically, but on social media, you will see numerous girls post about how they feel they are obligated to something or even how they feel in public, period. The problem is how women are treated not only in native communities but everywhere. I have a few girls close to me who have said themselves they keep their opinion to themselves because they feel it doesn't mean anything, and even some who say they feel uncomfortable speaking what they feel. Another thing is the fact that I feel more girls should be like this author, finding themselves and being able to express themselves and what they think is right. Also before leaving this story I would like to include how the countries run by women showed much better progress with opening than those run by men.

Feisty Foremothers:

This second short article "Feisty foremothers." simply talk about where the women's rights movement started, and how it gave women all around the world a big step to their freedom, having the right to vote. It goes over how these ladies would protest and how they simply never gave up for what they believed was right. It talks about how in 1848 the movement sparked off in NY and really began to grow from there and make progress.

Relating this to my topic is simple, it goes over one of the biggest leaps women took in gaining their equality in the states and for women all around. Also how it played such a big role to today, how women have been almost elected president. Though women have come a long way they still have yet to achieve in my opinion. I believe as they get more access to things, and they have more of a voice they will lead the people and possibly even the world to much better things.

Equality in Washington:

The article focuses on the state of Washington focusing on equaling women´s rights as well as women and children sex trafficking in the state. It focuses on these matters and pretty much putting the word out there as well as making awareness to help stop this. It goes over how Washington went about its ways making things right for both men and women in their state, during the time of women being harassed by their own president, Washington really took a big step in my opinion by going through with all this.

I chose this article mainly because of what the state of Washington did with equaling women´s rights but also because of the sex trafficking part. Not only is this a big situation around the world but it is in the US and not really anyone talks about it. It has been spoken about over the years but is never really taken seriously, women and children are targets of this and I believe that shouldn't be the case. It should be spoken about more, to help all the women in need of help. Not only was it spoken about in this, but also another article I came across that came out in 2018 was going over how women are targeted 15x more during the pandemic where they don't really get much help.