It is interesting to read To The American Indian by Lucy Thompson. I know more Indian Cultures by reading stories from the book. It's interesting to read about how different people operate the Klamath Bluffs Store. Successful and failure cases are told by stories. I think Thompson is making a point that people have to be wise when they run business otherwise they will get themselves into trouble. When she talks about how Indians build their houses, it is sort of boring because I hardly image the actual physical subject that she talks about. It would be better if she provides more pictures to show how it looks like. It's also interesting to read about that they have a weird tradition that for a girl to become a doctor she have to do all the dancing torture. The story of Creation is really appealing to me because I found many things that is similar to the bible. For example, men is created before women, the creator is using men to create women, and others.
I think Thompson writing this book because she wants more people to know about Indians and their culture. And I think she is successful because I am amusing by those stories.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
New Blog for NAS 5
A New Blog for NAS 5!
I chose the title "Survival + Resistance" because this is the main subject for NAS 5. This course is generally studying the writing of Native American survivance. How they survive after all the hardship they have been, and how they remain resistance so will be remember in the history. So I think this should be a good title for the blog, because in the following posts I will comment on writings related to Native American survivance.
For the readings so far, I was interested on Popol Vul. There are many interesting stories in it. One thing I might write about for the first essay of the class would be the tricks that done by different living things. Interestingly, I notice that someone is usually defeat others by tricks in the stories. Even characters that have power to overrule others (like the lords), they use tricks to defeat others. I think the stories is trying to say wisdom is more powerful than strength. Also, some small animals in the stories are seem to be powerful they have wisdom. So for the first essay, I might write about how wisdom can make big difference in Popol Vul.
I chose the title "Survival + Resistance" because this is the main subject for NAS 5. This course is generally studying the writing of Native American survivance. How they survive after all the hardship they have been, and how they remain resistance so will be remember in the history. So I think this should be a good title for the blog, because in the following posts I will comment on writings related to Native American survivance.
For the readings so far, I was interested on Popol Vul. There are many interesting stories in it. One thing I might write about for the first essay of the class would be the tricks that done by different living things. Interestingly, I notice that someone is usually defeat others by tricks in the stories. Even characters that have power to overrule others (like the lords), they use tricks to defeat others. I think the stories is trying to say wisdom is more powerful than strength. Also, some small animals in the stories are seem to be powerful they have wisdom. So for the first essay, I might write about how wisdom can make big difference in Popol Vul.