In the article “sharing one skin” by Jeanette Armstrong She gives us a deeper look into seeing identity to our land. Also the way we should be a community. She explores the community and individuals are one and that we can share stories and lessons. As she says we loss of  being in a community and our wisdom of our land, she finds it weird that cities are not like communities like they don’t know one another. 

The memories and stores are connected to our lands and how place names impact the way we see landscape. The article explains how the names can tell us the story and personality of the land. Toasite goes over about how these names can tell us the spritillysde and how we can respect these spirits  in our own ways. With all this the article names as colonizer it takes away from stories and lessons that the spirits had brought upon this land to honor it.

The article I read by “Liz Sonneborn” talked about the mission about boarding school and how it started in the army. When the boarding school was opened they would either give kids up or they would take them away from families. Also they would cut their hair. They  were also forbidden to speak their language and practice their culture. Would make them into a white man or woman by making them learn about Christianity and make them speak,write english. Slowly they would forget their language and culture.Become american and would say “save the man kill the Indian”.

The speaker April Charli talked about when she was with her little niece and she had told her “My Bug”. Once she said that it had changed her whole life because she really didn't know the true meaning and ownership of “My” and how you can have things as in owning things.Also when she says that you just can’t learn the meaning and lesson of ownership. That you have to be able to adapt to it and you just can’t live without knowing the meaning of having things like objects like Hats,cars,clothes and in a way not owning things like water because no one really owns water it’s there for everyone to share.

Oztaskin talked about how Lente grew up speaking his language and that his language was not taught in schools. And how the kids now have language classes and being able to learn about their culture. Also by being able to fight with the state of New Mexico because of not being able to give Native American the proper needs. They fought and passed an act so that allows Native Americans can get the proper education and needs so they could learn both English and their native language.

This article talked about the pueblo of Jemez, a program that teaches kids about their culture and language. Also how they teach the younger you got about their culture at school as they follow the calendar. And how the Jemez pueblo council their day school and head start into just speaking their language and won’t have to speak english all the time. Another thing that they did was they got a bill passed that they could now pay teachers and the state gave 10.2 million for programs for tribes. “We don’t want to lose our language”.