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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, 1996. Pp 460-470.

• • Article 1: “ Sharing One Skin”: Jeanette Armstrong

• Within the article Jeanette talks about what I feel are some of the more important components that go into how we as native americans see and project our identities to each other and ourselves. She conveys her message through things that we can relate to as natives like “each person is born into a family and a community”. I liked that quote because while we aren’t related to everyone in our pueblo or tribe, we are all connected and part of it. “You are them. You belong. You are within a family and community”. This quote strengthens her view of us being part of something bigger.  Personally I really connected with the quote “That is how I like to remember who I am and what my role is” (J.Armstrong p.462) because it's part of what we practice in our households, that being everyone has a job to do. As the tasks are completed new ones will come and everyone must do their part to see it done, some of these tasks go beyond our years from generation to generation. The biggest and most important task is for us to learn our traditional ways and pass them down to our children to keep our culture and people alive.

Native American - Assimilation versus Sovereignty: The Late 19th to the Late 20th Century.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 

Suina, Joseph “And I went to school” memories of a pueblo childhood,”. New Mexico Journal of Reading, Winter 1985, Vol. V, No.2.

• “How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape”’: B. Toastie

In my eyes B.Toastie really amplifies and explains the importance of stories, and makes you think about how valuable the stories really are. The lessons, power, and beauty of the stories are one thing she kinda ties together as general knowledge within a community.

I connected to this article through the way it talked about stories and the importance of land, how they’re connected. In my pueblo we treat our sacred grounds as living and breathing spirits. We pray and give them thanks as they help us continue our way of life. To be strong, have courage, to love, to have that respect for the world around us. 

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.

Overall my interpretation of the article really communicates Joe’s experience in the boarding school. The “Culture Shock” and the aftermath of it when Joe returned home. In the article he called his pueblo “Too little” after returning home is an example of how the disposition had affected him and his connection to his pueblo.

I too endured what Joe experienced in a less cultural genocide approach. Instead it's more of a “Give something to get something” deal today. I feel that the more knowledge I pick up here, something back home is left behind. While we have our language classes to help us keep the connections to our communities alive, we can’t get the time we spend in the kiva  or pueblo back.

 Moeti documents the most concerning stats in Africa during the year 2022. He drew connections to major events such as the covid-19 pandemic. He also mentions the living conditions of African people at the time. He brought attention to the effects of social isolation, fear of death and disease were the things that Moeti pointed out. 

The Africa CDC talks about what their plans are moving forward from the “Comprehensive Global Action Plan” which is based on the more recent studies of major factors that negatively affect the mental health of Africans. They created the plan off of suggestive actions based on what they lacked. Such as more mental health workers, more mental health facilities, as well as incorporating the services of multiple mental health professionals all throughout the country.

Huerta takes a similar approach to addressing mental health disparities as Africa. They start by recognising past issues, then they look at current issues. They based their solutions on developing support programs that will last, rather than a quick and "easy" fix to the problem . But the people of Jalisco, Mexico face inequity within their country. As Jalisco is one of the areas in mexico where a high number of severe mental health issues or problems were recorded.