The Fear of Forgetting: The True Horror of Dementia

Jeremiah Lovato

Santo Doming Pueblo, Prairie Band Potawatomi, Kickapoo Kansas, Sac n fox nation of Oklahoma

Jeremiah Lovato

https://santodomingopueblo.com/

“Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Flag.” Infobase, Facts On File. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&iid=202409. Accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

“Kickapoo Tribe of Indians Flag.” Infobase, Facts On File. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&iid=244826. Accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

“Sac and Fox Nation Flag.” Infobase, Facts On File. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&iid=202426. Accessed 13 Sept. 2024.

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Research Log 1: Identity

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Sharing one skin

In the article, “Sharing One Skin” Jeanette Armstrong talks about what it's like to be from a different place and the felt obligation to both locations. She believes that we all have four sides to ourselves. the physical, emotional, thinking intellectual and spiritual self. Then she goes on to talk about how nobody is born into isolation but we all are born into a family and community. She is Okanagan, meaning they all share “one skin” meaning that community is first, then family, and lastly, you as an individual. It also talks about the correlation between the language and the land. In the Okanagan language, the word to the language and the land is the same.

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.

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.

Lovato Jeremiah, Santa Fe Ski February 24 2024 Author’s collection

How Place Names Impact The Way We See Landscape

In the second article "How Place Names Impact the Way We See Landscape" B. Toastie first talks about how every place has a name and a story that is attached to it. In the Native names, there is also a name and a story attached to it but the scenery would have two different names and stories. It also talks about how you can't do anything you want in a mountain or in water because it has a spirit but you can come up to it respectfully and receive good from the water and mountain. In the native teaching, we are taught that the land is sacred to us and that we should be the ones to protect the land from harm. These teachings have been passed down from our ancestors who had inhabited the land long before us.

"Santa Fe Indian School." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 14 Nov. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe_Indian_School. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

And The I Went To School

In the third and final article “And Then I When To School” Joe Suina Talks about the 3 stages of boarding school. These stages are the before, during, and after, In each of these stages he has a different experience. In the first stage, he talks about being at home with his grandma. He says that at a young age, he had chores and duties at home which included chopping wood and hauling it down. He learned the traditional aspects of his life and how to pray. Then he goes on to talk about his life during the elementary school years. He talks about the punishments he went through, these would include getting hit by a ruler if they had spoken their language. They would get scolded for attending their ceremonies. He had started to want to have a white man's way of life. After his years at the elementary school, he starts to go to a school far from his family. He had begun to miss his way of life. He wanted to start participating in his traditional ways. When on his break from school he began to reconnect with his family. When he was going back he said it was the hardest time.

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

Research Log 2 - History

History of Dementia - F. Boller

In the article "History of Dementia," F. Boller first wrote about how dementia could be known as being as old as mankind. First, he is right about the first instance the cognitive impairment first shown in history which was with the Egyptians. Then it goes on to talk about how dementia affected art he stated that Shakespeare referred to dementia and old age frequently. It goes on to talk about the Alzheimer's discovery which was described as a rare disease until 20 years ago.

Hyun Duk Yang, Do Han Kim, Sang Bong Lee, Linn Derg Young, History of Alzheimer’s disease, Korean Dementia Association, 31 December 2016

History of Alzheimer's

This article was about where the word dementia came from. Then it went onto the history of dementia which stated that there are 6 stages of life and that the last stage is where cognitive decline starts to decline. Then there are the multiple theories on how dementia starts. Some say that it was due to a weak will. Others said that it was due to their growing age. And some others say it was a punishment from god for all the sins that they had committed Then it goes on to talk about what happened to the dementia patients and other mentally ill patients during the witch hunt era. They were all hunted for being demon-possessed. In the last note, it was about the social stigma that is associated with dementia. Dementia patients faced discrimination just because they had dementia. They were also afraid to tell people that they had dementia because people had reverted away from the dementia patients

Boller, François. “History of Dementia.” Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 89, Jan. 2008, pp. 3–13. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.sfis.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/S0072-9752(07)01201-8.

The Fear of Forgetting - Clark

In the video he switched between alzheimer and dementia. In the start if the video aspect of dementia and how we are all running out of time. He states the everyday we forget and that forgetting in unavoidable but dementia is uncontrollable. Then it goes on to talk about the causes of dementia which was a deficiency of vitamin B12. It talks about how down syndrome people are more likely to develop a form dementia. Then i talks about the 7 stages associated with dementia and how each stage represents a stage in dementia. after it talks about the music part of the dementia made by kirby its a 6 hour collection of music that takes somebody through what goes on through the mind of someone who has dementia. after it talks about how dementia recorded in media. Some in tv shows and others in the games.

Elieson, Clark. “Fear of Forgetting.” YouTube, YouTube, 22 Sept. 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIv5Y-vql90&t=1417s.

The restaurant of mistaken orders

The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders is a place that I've seen that I would like to go to one day. This restaurant is a big step in solutions for taking care of dementia patients. The workers are all dementia patients. The people who run the shop, I feel like they want to simulate the old life style that a dementia patient would have had. I think that this is a big step in helping dementia patients and families figure out a solution to help dementia patients.

As Cases Soar, 'Dementia Villages' Looks Like the Future of Homes

The idea of normalizing dementia to the public is taken in many different ways. One of these was to make a "Dementia Village.” These dementia villages started in Amsterdam and then spread to the world. The purpose of these dementia villages is to let dementia patients live a normal life even after their diagnosis. The other purpose is “It's about normalizing life for people who have dementia disease.” Although there aren't any villages in the United States, there are plans for one to be built in Holdel, NJ, in about 2 years.

Alzheimer's Disease and its related dementias in US Native Americans

Alzheimer's in natives are affected by the population of natives. There is a growth of natives that are growing older and form signs of both dementia and alzheimer's. The overall health of natives also plays a major role in the natives getting dementia. The health of the natives is worse, with higher rates of health problems. There were proposed ways to help people with dementia in native communities. This would include having seminars on dementia to educate people.