Books to read

If you guys liked the book we read in class from Sherman Alexie, I would recommend this other book from him “the lone ranger and tonto fistfight in heave”. It is a funny book to read and I think you’ll enjoy it.

Indian Education Response paper

Indian Education Response

                In this reading, the focus was about Indian schooling from a boy named Junior who grew up on an Indian reservation. It consisted of many short stories of his experiences going from first to twelfth grade. And what he had to overcome while going to a white person school. Even though this is about one kid, it gives the sense of how it really was for Native American children growing up in a place full of white people. He first started going to school on the reservation and then went to a school off the reservation when he realized he wanted a higher education. He later returned to the reservation after he graduated.

            Junior graduated as a valedictorian at a farm town high school in eastern Washington. When he went back to the reservation he noticed that the same people he grew up with and graduated the same year with still couldn’t read and got diplomas anyways. Some of them even got diplomas just for showing up to class every day. Even the people that did well didn’t know what to do after graduation and were scared at what the future will bring. This tells me that most people back then didn’t want a higher education and just wanted to party and have a good time. Back then, Native Americans could only get jobs on the reservation, so they knew that they wouldn’t have to go to college or get more education in order to find work.

            Junior was a very smart boy and knew he loved math and school in general from a young age. So he decided to go to a school off the reservation where he knew that he would be able to learn all he wanted. He played basketball for his high school team nicknamed the “Indians” and was extremely good.