Jeanette Armstrong 

Sharing One Skin 

The first article was about other people's perspectives on sharing one's skin. The other article talks about how names impacted are landscapes or others.The first article talks about how he or she would talk about him/herself and where they are from. You can think about how you would introduce yourself but story wise in your language. The article talks about how and where the narrator is from and he or she describes the climate and the narrator describes where her mother is from and the columbia river system. In one paragraph it described the land, how the river flowed and that when they are born they are a family and part of the community and nothing can isolate the 2 of these things. The land also is their kinda safe place because they have their language teachings and what the land has to offer. There was a topic that stood out to me and that was “The Hands Of The Spirit”. This particular topic was interesting because it talked about the landform which had the old life form. Everything they do or say affects the earth because they are the hands of the spirit.

The first source that I chose to research about was what type of different departments decided to help Santa Clara Pueblo after the fires. With the fires that have gone through and burned in 2 different areas it has Led to flash flooding with the soil being toasted which is called Hydrophobic. As far as the U.S Marine Corps have helped Santa Clara there has been a map that they made and the flooding could wipe our whole community out. The canyon is under the protection and taking measures as to making plans in the future on what their next plan of action was going to be. 

This next source related to my topic because it was a video on the aftermath of the fires and the video of the out of control flash flooding . The Marine Corps were in the video I believe or it could have been a different department. The amount of water that was rushing down towards our village was scary because when you look up the floods from the past in Santa Clara Pueblo the floods seem to be getting bigger then smaller but as I watched the video they had closed the canyon due to the dangers that were up there. The departments would go up to the canyon to do more work but as they said in the video "We don't really know what could happen because it's a danger every time it rains".  Sediment gates were installed throughout the canyon to catch debris and sediment to let the free water flow. During the monsoon season, in the pueblo this is the dangerous season because lives are theatened by the flash flooding. This is just to show what hydrophobic soil is and 

The third source that I found was on how climate change affects tribal communities. This is a big I think because every pueblo is being affected by climate change. They could be affected by the past fires, flooding, or even the drought with the lack of precipitation. Climate change has also apposed a threat to our culture  as well. After the fires in Santa Clara there was a point whee we had to go off our reservation to search for the trees that we needed because we didn't have any after the fires. Our watershed was burned and our village is just a big target for the next flood to occur because the amount of water that rises down, we don't really know how big these floods can get. The flooding has done a lot of damage as to putting peoples life in danger.  Animals were also killed and our natural resources were destroyed which we cannot replace. 

I found this article to relate to my topic because climate change has taken away so many things from our canyon and pueblo. I found this article to be interesting as to the wildfires and flooding, we don’t really know what could be next, maybe the next flood could take our village out but climate change has ultimately impacted not only us but our canyon where we get resources and food from. After the wildfires, flooding had taken its part and destroyed our creek, killed fish and has done a lot of damage to our roads, vegatation, and our community. I say community because if you were to look at our watershed and where the water flows, when it rains and floods, were just a big target right between the watershed and the river. The flooding has been dangerous enough to where it puts people's life in danger and so does our fields, residential areas, and our school. A lot of this has occured after the fires hit our canyon and the wildlife have relocated to areas where they can put lives in danger. The aftermath of the fires have led to health problems, water contamination, falling trees/boulders, vegetation loss, and water facilities. Animals have also been affected by these fires because not only did animals die in the fire but also natural resources we use for ceremonial purposes were also destroyed and can’t be replaceable.