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In the article “Sharing One Skin” by Jeanette  Armstrong , she is a native girl who grew up in a native community whose tribe is really close to their identity. The Okanagan people are very wise and logical with their knowledge of their past and the community. Armstrong talks about how the Okanagan people and how they are always there for each other. Armstrong mentions the “The four selves” which the Okanagan speak for themselves as they explain they have four main capacities that work together to identify the whole person. The four main capacities are your emotional self, your physical self, the thinking intellectual self, and the spiritual self. Those four selves have a very equal importance in the way that the Okanagan people experience and function all things. My connection in a way is that I grew up in Jemez Pueblo, growing up in a culturally active home has been a part of me due to my grandpa being a Head member of his society before his passing. In the story it talks about when you pray and ask for blessings and to be safe, you pray for not only yourself but other people as well. My grandpa taught me to pray in our cultural language and to ask our creator to bless not only my family but the people whom we love. It gives me a good sense of cause and purpose to pray everyday and to pray for the people who need it. 

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.

In the article How Place Names Impact The Way We See The Landscape; By Author; B. Toastie, Toastie talked about the beauty and strengths of the landscapes. There are stories that share the ideas that were “ place identity” which is a social constructivist theory which was designed to shed light on our subjective perceptions of geography. Place identity was  identified by a Psychologist Harold Proshansky in 1978. Phillip Cash Cash explained the importance of many Indigenous worldwide views, people are not central to the landscape, but rather are one component participating equally with other lifeforms. Cash Cash described the community mind as “a stable set of beliefs” containing the ongoing narrative of that community’s interaction with the world. “Ancestors who inhabited these spaces can convey teachings to their living descendants.” The way i connected to this story is that knowing the landscapes is important, especially growing up, men in the pueblo go hunting and they don't described the location in English; they described them in our Towa language which is a big part of the community. In similarities with the story they talked about the beauty behind all the landscapes within our community.

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.

In Mr. Joseph Sunia article; And Then I Went To School talked about Sunia growing up with his grandmother in Cochiti until he got to the age where he had to attend school. The Story focuses on how the teacher tries to white wash Mr. Suina, by forcing him to let go of his culture and forcing him not to speak his language in class and to rather focus on being a Cowboy. “Speaking it accidentally or otherwise was punishable or either by a dirty look or they would whack you with a ruler.” Growing up where you are taken where you are from can change and impact you on the way you view things. It caused him to have a lot of anxiety and embarrassment trying to understand the new “English” language. Mr. Sunia couldn't comprehend everything that was happening, but he understood very well when he messed up or wasn’t doing so well. My personal experience and connection with this article was before coming to SFIS, I thought it was nice living inside the village and all but once i experienced the dorms it made me realize how small our living space is. It is good and all, but it wasn’t what was wanted. Coming to SFIS made me realize that I want more and for my living space such as Additional rooms, Washer & Dyers, just more space inside our home. Not that i am not appreciative of what i have and i'm super thankful for the roof that's been over my head all these years, but being 17 years old I never really had my own room, I related a lot to this story cause of the same situation Suina went through, which included a quote from his story “ I would Stay awake staring at the crooked adobe walls casting uneven walls”.

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

 "Planting Trees Around The World For Forest Fire Recovery" written by Gabrielle Clawson. Clawson shares numerous of projects that are happening globally. All the stories share their own experiences and how it has impacted them with fires that have costed them pretty much everything in land. They all shared their commitment to helping restore the forest that was burnt down. From Planting 200,000 trees to plating OVER 1.5 MILLION trees, they expressed that not only was it habitats and ecosystems affected by this but also the surrounding communities were also hurt by the intensity of the damages that was costed. How i Connected with this piece was going to Bear Canyon (Wyah - lah - Pah kwah) during the summer and planting over 2,000 trees with the Natural Resources Department to help plant trees in the burnt scars. 

In the article "Why Clearing The Brush Around LA Won't Reduce Danger" journaled by Lauren Sommer. Sommer goes into depth about the Los Angeles wildfire that got out of hand due to a certain native plant to the people of California known as the Chaparral. This plant itself costed more than 12,000 homes to go up in flames and burn over more than 50% even more of the plants. People of California are blaming the plants for this kind of distruction and not many people expected. Sommer described this plant as a "Hazard" because of how dry and dense it is. How i connected with this article was fairly but oddly similar... the residents of Jemez Springs witnessed a mass flooding due to rapid snow melts cause a few people to be a big risk as their houses were to close to the edge that would've flooded their house. I also remember seeing San Ysidro flooded due to this same reasons. 

The Fire in Chili has been one of the worst fires in the nation. The CDP published an article titled " 2024 Chili Wildfires". The CDP informs readers about the wildfires that occurred the first week of February , this fire started as a bush fire but due to severe dry conditions and very high rapid wind speeds the people of Chili were forced to evacuate and relocate from chili. CDP explained to us that the drought they have been facing even before the fires. Without any water source it was much harder for first responders to maintain the fires without it getting out of control. Sources say that during these times people lost everything ' ever worked for from losing their houses, families and at some cases loved ones. The Pan American Health Organization Explained that " During these Crisis, Over 1,250 people were Injured due to smoke hazards, Third Degree Burns in some cases." This was the largest and most deadliest fire the Chili residents have seen, The Chili Government expressed this fire costed roughly over 1.1 Billion In Damages.