My brain maps crisis.

suggest consult her doctor for med adjustments;make required appointments and supervised visits,try not to break down.

If the river is a ghost, am I?

I must preserve the river in my body

Native

This was what auxiliary parents were for—to step in and take over in place ofone’s own parents in their absence, to reach out and extricate one and surround one withhomelike tenderness. How all-sufficient kinship was!

“Our relatives are precious to us, sick or well.

"life," "liberty," and "happiness"

Her long, black hair, which had come unbraided during her struggles with the hide, trailedbehind her in a level sweep. Her pretty young face was tilted up and she was actually laughing,free as the wind, when he came up beside her.

After a wearying day to be made a beloved in that way!”

You madeyour first mistake in not staying for a while with her family, where she would have only you toadjust to. Then, when she knew you well, she would be better able to meet the problem of in-laws by itself. I say this out of my own experience.

Likewise, all the women were equally responsible for all thechildren, being mothers to them all.

but adjusting to her husband’s family and relatives, whichwas a social matter.

Oh,”said the child, and dismissed the matter, satisfied with the answer. “Dead” was a meaninglessword to him now.

Each man wore a strip of rabbitskin around wrists and ankles, and a rawhide disk “the sizeof a newborn baby’s head”

Each man held a huge spray of the broadleafed sage in front of his face and wailed behind it.It sounded tragic, as though they felt genuinely bad and were not simply doing it out offormality as part of the ritual.

This cutting was an honor,

He carried a pipe of peace on his arm and wore a buffalo robe with the fur on the outside.On his head was perched a stuffed redheaded woodpecker looking real enough to be alive.

in tears

Some say that Dakota leaders did not understand the terms they were entering, or they neverwould have agreed.

Dakota 38 refers to thirty-eight Dakota men who were executed by hanging, under ordersfrom President Abraham Lincoln.

The Dakotas listened entranced and cheeredeach song at its close, whispering to one another as they applauded, “The Omahas have cometo sing, indeed!”

bright crimson

One must give one’s life to save the other.

There he and Palani met and took an instant liking to each other, and beforeparting they entered into what was known as fellowhood, a solemn friendship pact that mustendure forever

t is told from a woman’s perspective

As ethnographic fiction it has succeededbeyond anything she could have dreamed, and she could hardly have anticipated the novel’simpact today.

She chose the people she spoke with very carefully.

but nothing other than deathcould stop her.

Her own experience of discrimination inspired her to find ways tosupport “women, homosexuals, and Jewish students,” lending them money (as she did withDeloria), books, and even her car on occasion (Lapsley 226).

Deloria lacked formal academic qualifications in ethnonology or linguistics. Her bachelor’sdegree from Columbia University was in physical education. She described heranthropological knowledge as coming mostly from reading, from special training by Boas, and“from attending his and Dr. Benedict’s classes in folklore, beginning anthropology, linguistics,methods of research (Boas) and ethnology (Benedict)

The one audience who would haveunderstood most of what she had to say—her own Dakota people—would not have whollyapproved of her publishing her ethnological manuscript; some Dakotas would not evenapprove of her knowing what she knew, an anxiety she repeatedly voiced.

culturally inappropriate for what she was trying to accomplish.

“If I could live in a hut and have not bills—you’d be surprised!”

Some South Dakota winters, shecould only afford to heat one room.

“Therewould be nohighereducation aswe know it inthe UnitedStateswithout theoriginal andongoingcolonizationofIndigenouspeoples andlands, justlike therewould be noUnitedStates.”

he swept the floors with astraw broom as a janitor’s assistant. In return, he waspaid $25 a month by the same university that soldthousands of acres of his people’s land out fromunder him while he hid out in forests and rivercanyons.

Hole is my favorite band.TommyPico 39

I make quinoan shitOnce on campus I see a York Peppermint Pattie wrapper on the ground,pick it up, and throw it away. Yr such a good Indian says some dickwalking to class. So,I no longer pick up trash.TommyPico 37

Wewill use the moon to light the skies part of the time and call it night and we will use the sun forthe part of the time we will call day.

Grades tend to reduce the quality of students’ thinking.  They may skim books for what they’ll “need to know.” They’re less likely to wonder, say, “How can we be sure that’s true?” than to ask “Is this going to be on the test?”  In one experiment, students told they’d be graded on how well they learned a social studies lesson had more trouble understanding the main point of the text than did students who were told that no grades would be involved.  Even on a measure of rote recall, the graded group remembered fewer facts a week later (Grolnick and Ryan, 1987).

Grades tend to diminish students’ interest in whatever they’re learning.  A “grading orientation” and a “learning orientation” have been shown to be inversely related and, as far as I can tell, every study that has ever investigated the impact on intrinsic motivation of receiving grades (or instructions that emphasize the importance of getting good grades) has found a negative effect.