Since I had the opportunity to go to an event with the Dalai Lama, religious leader of the Tibetan people, I would like all of us to think about compassion and how we can practice that in our own life. We have just read a story that shows the difficult struggle of Native American people when children were taken from their homes to be educated and changed away from their culture and family. In these one hundred years since Zitkala-sa wrote her story, we have changed, but the passage of time has shown us many other places where we can learn about and practice compassion for each other in our class and others in the world.
I hope you all have a good weekend. Remember to read "My English" by Alvarez and bring your Reading Journal on Monday.
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I am glad you posted this due to missing class on friday...
Florence freimuth
well I hope everyone had a great weekend, I know I did, it was busy but fun, I am really enjoying this class and the other students.
I have done the reading for Zitkala Sa, I really enjoyed it! although I have done some research on her and her works and in doing so I have found some discrepancies that was published in the textbook we have, she is not "Dakotah" she is "Lakotah", she was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation, it states that this is a fictional story but in fact it is not.
I am doing more research on her as I am finding really interesting things about her.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!, thank you all for letting me share a little of my culture with you all! I hope it helped with your learning and to have a little more compassion towards others.
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