A whole person has 4 main compacity’s that come to operate together. Some self’s are more important than others but in the end they all come together to form one bond. These self’s also help us find and determine who we are as one.

The land that surrounds me, represents me. I feel how Armstrong feels about her land and what's around her. I feel like I have responsibilities to my home lands. My land also describes who I am and where I come from. When we describe where we come from it gives people a sense of who we are and how we got influenced from that place. 

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. 

The names of places affect how we see that place or how we view it and respect it. It also gives importance, value, connection through those names and stories. 

In this story how I feel connected to it is by people also giving places names after some people. This is a problem back home, we have some issues with people trying to name places after them even though these places had names. Especially with some shrines; some of our higher ups at Acoma have disagreements and believe we should stick to those old names and ways because they affect how we the Acoma people view those places or shrines. I have heard stories about places and why those stories have an important impact on 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. 

After reading this text I can say it is about a little kid who was stripped from his pueblo roots and made feel like he or his people's ways weren’t good enough. He also had to choose a lifestyle to adapt to more and he chose the white man's way. 

This story I deeply feel connected to because I have kind of experienced something like Suina. I have been taken away from my home and pueblo to learn and have a better life. I feel like I have connected to the white man's way like Joe says. My personal opinion is that I think I have absorbed much of the white man’s ways and sometimes feel like I have to choose between my native life and the white man’s life I obtained. It is hard for me to do both because if I want to do good in life I have to go more and more away from home. 

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

In this article it talks about the arrival of the settlers, how they viewed us and how they basically took advantage of us natives. It gives some examples of how us Indians of North America got treated and how it affected us today.

One way that I can see this article connecting to my SHP topic is by the taking of our ancestral land. Without our land how are we going to plant, we adapted to that specific area of land and there is a chance we don't know how to plant in that area. There is also a chance we don't get to plant or farm again because we've given up that land. Another way I see this article connecting to my topic is by the federal indian policy. When we gave up our land they decided they would give it back only if we farmed it. This was the government attempt at assimilating native americans.

We need to farm more because that is what we did, we were farmers back then and when we ate our crops we lived healthy and long. After contact with European people and their lifestyle our health was not the same. It is also important that we farm because there are not a lot of farmers, for example in 2015 there were only fifthteen or fewer farmers in all of the pueblo of Acoma. Being one of those fifthteen or fewer people in 2015, I know because me and my grandpa have been farming that long. I believe if i'm correct that was my last crop growth with my dad, he had passed away that same year. Like I said I still have that shovel my dad gave to me and I plan to continue farming because that is one thing we did a lot together. 

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