I am not sure if we are supposed to make 1 or 2 posts for last week because we only read one piece of literature, so I just did on that includes both Alexie and the Presentations.
Alexie did a wonderful job ending his book. In the opening poem he asked us to take a journey with him, and at the end he challenged us to use the knowledge of his journey to effect our own. This book starts in the Western United States and ends in the Eastern United States, therefore including all of the nation. Alexie was not simply writing to a small group of people, but was writing to the nation. I think that the overall goal of his book was to help other cultures, primarily whites, to understand his own culture. Quoting from Cool Runnings "People always afraid of what's different". This book was an attempt by Alexie to bridge a gap between two cultures.
I thought the presentation were fun and learned something from every one. Nice job everybody! I was intrigued by the first presentation and the amount of influence that native medicine has had on our modern medicine. I liked how the 2nd presentation showed the negative health effects that we have had on Native Americans. I would agree that killing millions of people is definitely bad for their health. I enjoyed the last two presentation and how they focused on the art side of Native Americans. Their art is very neat and always enjoy hearing/seeing the colors and rhythmic music.
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