nimal reintroduction and relocation

Dominic Fragua

Pueblo of cochiti and Jemez

“Pueblo of Cochiti Flag.” Infobase, Facts On File. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&iid=202267. Accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

Dominic Fragua,Damn,8/31/24 authors personal collection

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Identity

“ sharing ones skin” by Jeanette Armstrong is an amazing article it really shows her perspective and how she connects to her family and how she shares her knowledge about her people and where they came from and how she came to be with land and it also shows how she grew up in the city and her perspective on how she was taught and grew up Armstrong lived off the land and she says her people still do the traditional things they do and it kinda ties into my life like how I rely on the meat i get when i go hunting or when i'm busy at home and cant eat store meat i can only eat meat that was hunted and like how I grew up dancing and going to traditional ceremonies and take part in two different pueblos and having to now both rolls as a pueblo person and a regular guy.

Memories and stories are connected to our land as described by B. Toastie in the article “How place names impact the way we see landscape” was a pretty good article the article was mainly about how stories can affect our lives like how they are told and how we learned from these stories Tsosie also says that by naming the land a different name that the natives gave it the white people are basically stripping the land of their stories and memories that was once there and switching the names to washington, jefferson, and jackson and underneath the names is the old indigenous mind and invoking there stories. Stories are told this way in my way of life is like how our elders tell us stories of how we came to be as natives and why we do our traditional dances and how we used to live before technology and how we used to grow our own crops before we had ditch systems before we had modern tools and how we used to hunt for our meat and how we used to eat berries and live off the land.

The article ‘and then i went to school” is about a Cochiti man who grew up in Cochiti and how he went to school at the Indian school and was thought that they was not going to be native and was stripped from it and basically had to be white washed he also talked about how he grew up in the pueblo and the stories his grandma would tell him while he ate fig newtons that bad a hint of mothballs with his coffee before he went to sleep. My personal connection is to this article it that we both grew up in Cochiti and we both came to the Indian school another thing is that the traditional dances and the stories his grandmother would tell him like my great grandmother tells me how they used to dance some dances and how different things are now from back then and the stories she would tell me like how she was growing up or the stories her dad would tell her one thing she said that was different was that from back then is when we would dance buffalo for christmas the beat would be faster and they would have them dance faster.

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