Movie from Monday's class

The movie we watched on Monday was full of information. I forgot the name of it, so if anyone remembers it could you let me know?  It was pretty sad to see how the people were living on the reservation and how the government wouldn’t fix the things that were broken in their houses or help to take care of the black mold that can cause health problems or the bug problems. You never really know how bad it can get until you see and hear from people that experience it every day. It seemed that the government didn’t really care about them and put them on the bottom of the list of people to help. I think that is wrong and we should be helping them before we start helping other countries.

Today in class

It was an interesting experience when we went to the UW drama classroom today during class. Wasn’t sure what we were doing there or what it was about but the first half was pretty weird.  Although I didn’t get to stay the whole time can anyone fill me in on what you guys did the rest of the class?

Creative Response

Hi Everyone,

I am having some trouble coming up with ideas for the creative response project. I would like to hear what other people are doing or if they have any ideas that would be fun to do. Does anyone know if cooking some traditional Native American food would work for this project? Thanks.

Thanks Kohl and Paco

Just wanted to thank Kohl and Paco for taking the time out of their busy day to give us an awesome presentation. It was very informational and entertaining to listen to them.  It must have been hard to stay up there for two hours and keep everyone interested (but you guys nailed it). It was one of the best presentations I have seen while being at Cascadia. Thanks again and I hope you guys can come down and talk to our class again sometime.  

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.