I have learned that we as a world are trying to make it up and apologize to all of the FNMI people because of our horrible past with them. With the truth and reconciliation commission we are going around and asking forgiveness because we have treated them so bad in the past, with all of the residential schools and the destruction of their culture. I had no idea that the truth and reconciliation commission existed until now.
The skills that I have improved on this unit are communication, inferences, summarization & visualization. Viewing my peers work has improved my listening because you have to actually listen close to what they are trying to say about their part/role that they had to do for that meeting. Also with the viewing of the work I have been able to determine what I either have made mistakes on for the roles that I have already done or for the roles that I still have to do. The skills that I need for future development are proper writing techniques and ways to actually present my work better to my peers.
The main character Virgil is troubled because a stranger named John rides in on a motorcycle, Virgil has a inferior lifestyle because in the beginning of the book he started out lazy and when his mother got into a relationship he got really mad When he went to get help dealing with Nanabush he asked his uncle for help. To me, this reads as a childish and desperate, since a character usually stands up for them self near the end.
The more I read into the book the better it gets (as well with consulting with my peers who spoil a lot about the book) makes me enjoy the reading and the discussions of Motorcycles & Sweetgrass. This book has great setting (which is Otter lake) and the actual events that are in the book make me feel bad about what has happened in the past because as they describe the residential schools they only get one light above their beds and that when the speak their original language they are beaten and thrown into a shack and kept in there for days on end, without water, without food. When the motorcyclist comes in and says "I'm back" and the crow flies right above them it was pretty weird because to have a crow come flying over your head and have some guy say i'm back would be really weird.
With the abuse in residential school's (well residential schools don't exist anymore) we as the people who are invaders and just took their land and decided it was ours, after that they shared resources with us and we just completely stabbed them in the back and took their children away from them and put them in schools where we beat them into our culture and took their culture away from them and they could not parent their children properly (the survivors anyway) because they never got the experience of a parent because they were taken and put into the residential schools and beaten. Also the abuse with residential schools have been mostly destroying our relationship with the aboriginal people, as we destroy the relationship with the aboriginal people we destroy the chances that we have to make amens with them. As we supposably make amens with them they will still be mad at us because one story said " One child was told to hit a nail into the fence every time he was mad, after he never got mad and his dad told him to pull out one nail every time that he didn't have a temper tantrum so he did and finally when he pulled out all of the nails his dad said see once you say or do something bad and apologize for it the scar will always be there" so no mattyer how hard we try to make it up to them they will always be mad.
The most interesting thing about the FNMI assignment was that the Elders are the highest most respected and wisest people in the tribes. The Elders of the tribe are usually story tellers, healers, teachers and also ceremony planners. They are all these different things because they have the knowledge that has been passed down from generations to generations, they will one day pass all of their knowledge down another generation. The Elders are known by certain ways, one is age, knowledge, spiritual commitments to the tribe and finally by the person themselves. Down below you will see one of the FNMI elders wearing a traditional head dress (Regailia)
This TED talk for me was very inspiring because Shane Koyczan has been bullied his whole life and he still prevailed to become what he really wanted to do, even though he was put through all of the pain and suffering of being called names all of his life.
When Shane Koyczan did his TED talk he used pain and sympathy and he got everyone to feel bad for him and he uses that against you to tell his story and get you captivated into the story. First things first, food is AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Food is one thing that keeps us alive (and it tastes really reeeeeeeealy good). Food can come in all shapes and sizes, one food that is really good is pizza because it has the soft and chewy dough, it has the melted cheese and last the delicious toppings. Another type of food that is delicious is hamburgers, i say that hamburgers are delicious because there are several types of meat that you can put for the actual burger. One type of meat you can put deer/venison, also you can out beef/cow.
One fun part about food that is there is that you can have food at any time because it is in your house it is in restaurants it is also at your grandparents house. I will leave you off with this probing thought. If the earth and human beings lost every food source in the world , what would we have to eat to stay alive?? One day I was at the local outdoor rink playing hockey with my brother and my neighbors. At the outdoor rink we were allowed to hit into the giant snow banks, with the hitting and every time my brother came near me I would hit him into the snow bank (which was awesome because he would also hit me into the snowbanks but harder than i hit him into them).
This was probably one of the best days of my life and it only was one of the best days of my life because I got to hit my brother and my neighbors because we are all such good friends that we can hit each other and we will be fine with it. |
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