"How has place names impact the way we see landscape?"

In the article “How has place names impact the way we see landscape” by the High Country News, they interviewed a woman named Laura Tohe who is from the Navajo Nation. She explains that most of the land is named in the Dinè language, which has a meaning, story or reason and going forth most of it is related to history. When changing most of the American names because in the Navajo language they would put “yee” at the end of a bad person to not give them power or anything special means to their names. American names that had repeatedly reminded them of the colonizers that had really decimated their land and what it stands for. Most of the lands that had started out from the colonizers, everyone only knew the stereotype of what they know from just books that are from non-native speakers, writers and more. Most of the deeper meanings are kept within the sacred hands of the people who surround them.

This article was a little tough for me to understand and to read, mostly because there were a lot of things that were going on. As being part of the Navajo nation this was a learning experience and to know that most of these terms may affect the way most natives see the land. One good quote that stood out to me was ‘Convoluted stratification of inaccurate histories and dubious Indigenous stories reflects the many layers of colonization: dispossession, removal, abuse, environmental and cultural degradation, followed by feeble attempts at restitution” said by Cash Cash.

Citation:Toastie, Tony Abeyta May 1, 2022 From the print edition. “How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape.” High Country News - Know the West, 1 May 2022

History of women veterinarians 

The “History of women veterinarians” article written by Nicky Vincent. They write the evolution of different women becoming veterinarians and MRCVS. There were 2 women that had a lot of trouble and success during the 19th century. A lady named Aileen was the first to experience the complications, such as making testimonies which led to a personal recommendation to the founder of veterinary school, taking an appointment twice for the RCVS to recognize her practices in 1915, during World War I,until they couldn’t deny her entry in 1919. Mary Brancker was the second to experience the second war, and the foot and mouth outbreak in 1967 which really helped her get many awards. She became part of RCVS in 1977 and was awarded with an “Honorary doctorate by the University of Stirling” in 1996.

In this article there were some few good points and great history that really led me to believe that there has been a lot that happened within the topic I chose. My community veterinarian has been in the military, and it seems that she has gone beyond like these women who had to take classes and their education a step further in order to have their success be recognised. Learning that most women couldn’t work like they would a long time ago is still a thing in my community. We don’t know how long it is going to take for my pueblo to recognise our veterinarian work and what she can do, and provide for our community. As the years go on, we may have to just wait what will happen until we can take that extra step forward.

Vincent , Nicky. “History of Woman Veterinarians .” Vettime, 12 Aug. 2013, https://www.vettimes.co.uk/app/uploads/wp-post-to-pdf-enhanced-cache/1/history-of-women-veterinarians.pdf. 

"Fellow creatures:Kris Shares a Story” by an unknown author shares a section of a story about a woman by the name of Kris. “It is generally believed that humans and domesticated dogs have lived together for more than 30,000 years.” For humans and dogs and other animals to be together that long is a strong bond in which Kris states in an interview she was in “The key question is bonding. If we could figure out how to do that, then they would keep them. Homeless person might give food to the dog before himself, but a person who paid $1,200 for a puppy will happily give it away. How do we get them to bond?” In the present day we don’t see them the way we used to now these days. Many shelters have to maintain balance between what animals can survive and the ones that don’t.

When reading this, I didn't really get to read as much as I wanted to, but within a few paragraphs I felt very connected to the story. Kris tells a story of her own experience in California and gives us insight into the numbers of stray dogs and cats. These were a few compelling stories. As she talks more about animals, it becomes more and more about the negative side of how humans keep these animals off the streets and how to make them more domesticated.

Unknown author. “Fellow Creatures: Kris Tells a Story”. https://scholar.google.com/. Web Unknown date.

Domesticated Dogs

Artificial selection, That means we humans, for thousands of years, selected the dogs we liked the most because of their fluffy fur or friendly personality or intelligence or even ferocity,and we kept those dogs around, and we bred them.” Jacqueline Howard says in this short video. By saying this she meant for 10,000 years we maintained the same dogs of what our ancestors have chosen for who they are and what they can do to help their family out. She also said “In a span of less than 10,000 years,breeders have changed dogs' personality traits and body shapes so they'd have aspects that we preferred.A dog may have been bred for its hunting and herding behavior.” and this is really true because we have been changing the breed of a specific type of dogs or animals that we may want to protect us.

In this video it is really important to know why we choose these different types of dogs and why they are really unique in their own way. Most people don’t really think about this, not about why they chose the dog, but what is the history behind it. In the community we have what we call “rez dogs” and it’s because they are our own alarm system. Jacqueline Howard said humans may have domesticated these dogs and wanted more from the breed that has what they want into their own dog.

Bighistoryproject, Jacqueline, director. Jacqueline Howard: History of Domestic Animals | Big History Project. YouTube, YouTube, 8 July 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQqiO5zXok&t=29s Accessed 13 Oct. 2022.

Michael Black, who talks about the profit and non-Profit organizations, what they need to have and the strengths that they have as well. If they have a lot of communication, a lot of people looking for jobs can find certain people for those things, many times it can be a lot. He said “there could be some unfair competition” could be a concern. But most importantly the non-profit organization fills in the gaps that most profit organizations don't and that is one way that they can work together. 

This quick video Michael had expressed some things that the profit organization for veterinarians were lacking. To think that m