What I leanred...

Writing this final paper has taught me a lot of stuff. First of all I learned not to procrastinate so much! I need to work on my study habits, but I also learned about tribal police which is something I knew nothing of before. I learned that on most reservations they are really understaffed and on the Pine Ridge reservation which is home to 8,000 people and they only have about 11 officers which I think is crazy. No wonder there are so many drunk driving accidents...there aren't enough police to catch them

Artistic Response

So I ended up making a dream catcher for my artistic response instead of painting a picture with watercolors. I planned to buy supplies separately for the craft store, but when I got there I saw a dreamcatcher kit that gave you step by step directions and was much cheaper. It included a metal ring for the outside and blue sweade to wrap around and some feathers were also included. Wrapping the sweade around the ring was easy, but the part I got really confused on was the middle part. I couldnt figure out how to wrap the sinew right and I ended up making it my own which I think is kind of the point of an artistic response. I'm happy with the outcome I just hope I get a good grade!

My thesis for my final paper

"Through strong evidence it's clear that alcohol and substance abuse are a large problem on Indian reservations today and continues to affect the lives of many Native Americans."

 So this is my thesis for my paper, I tried to make it somewhat vague so I would have a lot of stuff to support it with.

Wednesday's talk

I really enjoy when Khol and Paco come and talk to us. I respect them as people because what their doing probably isn't easy. I would be terrified to get up in front of a bunch of Native Americans and talk about my culture but they make it looks so inspiring. I think Khol said something about one of his teachers thinking that none of us at Cascadia are interested in what they have to say, we're just there for the grade but that's so far from the truth. It's not like were getting points for coming to class, I believe all of us are there because we are truly interested in what they have to say and want to learn more about Native Americans. I'm really glad we got the chance to hear them this quarter and I'm looking forward to hearing them in the future.