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Armstrong, Jeanette. 1996 "Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community." (eds). 460-470 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith. The case against the Global Economy,San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club 

Jeanette Armstrong talks about her culture and how Jeanette Armstrong explains about who she is and what she is. Jeanette Armstrong is an Okanagan Native. When she talks about her culture, she said " I cannot be separated from my place or my land." When she says this it reminds me of how we all have the same connections.

Toastie, B. “How place names impact the way we see landscape.” High Country News:    Know the West, 1 May 2022, https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact- the-way-we-see-landscape. 

B.Toastie asks us how placing names impact the way we see landscape and when we name or rename a place that had an ancestral name or has one already we are evoking the reconnection to the landscape. The sacred places deserve to be a safe place for Natives that need to feel the connection with their ancestors and just to get that connection back if they feel like they lost it.

Frank W. Porter III wrote about the North American Indians or all of the Indians. He gives us the history run down on how Christopher Columbus arrived, how DC study the scientifically on the natives land, 1830s the government kicked the natives off their land forced to walk the Trails of Tears, etc. It talks about the natives' history and their story background about the natives. They claimed that we are bad and not “good” people. The non-natives say horrible things about us natives, saying that we are liars about being here first or that we are dangerous and bad people. This negative talk can bring down our mental health and we would start to do things that are bad for our health such as drugs and alcohol.  

Agnes Zsilla and Marc Eric S.Reyes talk about how there are pros while using social media but then they talk about the cons that social media will impact on your mental health. Social media has some good perks about using it properly and it has positive thoughts too, the other side of social media is the negative side which would cause a lot of thinking and negative thoughts.

 My connection to this is that I also do my pros and cons and it gets my mind thinking and I will start to damage my mind just thinking about this so much then it will affect my mental health state.

Serin Sarsour is talking about how social media can be good for the kids in some ways but there are bad ways of social media too. Social Media became a problem to the children, it will cause anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. This happens in so many communities like the LGBTQ+, Black, Native American, etc. All of these communities are affected by this.

 My connection with this is because I had social media when I was young. I used to always get made fun of or I would get really bad anxiety then it went to depression. I get really bad anxiety and panic attacks, I would know when it comes or I won’t. All of this will happen when I’m on social media when I overthink. 

Jeanne Lee tells us how social media can affect your mental health. It says that the users have to be careful on what they post about themselves. There could be some negative speech or just making fun of them. Facebook, Instagram,TikTok, etc. They all have impacts on teenage girls because they make them think differently about themselves.

 My connection with this is that I used to always compare myself and I used to always body shame myself, and used to starve myself as well, this all affected my mental health. This all changed me and I would hide my pain from my family and friends and I wouldn’t tell them anything because I was scared.

The NewsRX LLC talked about how there are fewer studies of cyberbullying in adults and how their relation between their mental health. There was this quote from University of New Mexico (UNM) they said “Fewer studies have examined cyberbullying in adults or how the relation between mental health.” When I read this quote from UNM I kind of agreed with it because there has been fewer amounts of studies with teenagers or even adults about their mental health state. 

There was research that indicated mental health with other symptoms along. They even talked about the difference of symptoms for men and women, they may seem alike but they are different. Mostly men have anxiety and depression but with women they have anxiety, depression, cyberbullying victimization and perpetration with high levels of social media use. 

With a bunch of schools they will look after the students because it’s their job to make sure we are all in a good, safe environment. All schools present a video or a presentation about bullying and they talk about what symptoms students could have from bullying in-person and on social media.

Bunch of kids bully other kids because of so many reasons and they tend to push the kids by saying hurtful words and the kids would think that they are true and they would kill themselves because of the hurtful words. All of these children are killing themselves at a very young age and that is not right. 

I was bullied in-person by an old classmate for years. I knew their family and I told them I was going to tell them but of course that didn’t work. I kept all of my bullying and cyberbullying a secret from my family and friends, I just bottled up my emotions. 

NewsRX LLC wrote an article about how social media is affecting the University of Southern California (USC)., they were talking about how instagram works and how if they post anything it stays on there permanently unless they delete it on there end. 

Instagram also has concerns with it, it could have the users be self-esteem and make them be concerned about their body image and it could make them start having different mindsets about themselves. 

All kids nowadays have social media, back then all the kids played with toys and went outside to play with their friends. Now kids are getting bullied on social media or they tend to body shame themselves and they would tend to get anxious about their body or even getting depressed. 

Later on, I even started to body shame myself as well. I got so anxious about my body image and it made me think of myself in a different way. I started to body shame myself a long time ago then it started to body shame me again when I had my daughter but of course I loved my body after agreeing with it because I gave birth to a tiny human being. 

Forum Communications Co. is with Standing Rock and they filed a complaint to the social media companies about how they are messing up the native communities mental health state.  Native communities are affected by this more than non-native. Lawsuits were brought into this by a medication called th opioid and it led to a widespread and it was misused with a prescription and without a prescription. 

A bunch of native communities are getting affected by this so much where all teens are doing drugs or even committing suicide too.  All Native communities deal with a lot of drug abuse and are thinking of killing themselves.  Most Native teens are the ones that are dying more often because they look and they act or even live. We all have a target on our backs because of the way we dress and look and it’s not right. 

Social Media affected me so badly that I started to do all sorts of things. I even tried killing myself but it wasn’t successful and after that I stopped because I thought about my family and friends. I started to self harm to take the pain away and it worked but then it started to become more painful with all the cuts on my wrist and then I stopped.