Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Don't let the Sun Step Over You: Intro, CH 1&2
Eva and her family travelled around quite a bit in search of food and work in order to support themselves. She had a pretty hard life. Many of her siblings died and her father also died. She did not seem to have an attitude of resentment, but was grateful for the time she had with them. She spent a lot of time with her grandmother, who was a medicine woman and very skilled at using plants and herbs help sick people. She also talked about kids being required to attend school, but the kids were abused at the boarding schools. Apache children were not fed enough, they were whipped and were also punished for speaking their own language. Eva's grandmother would her from the police(who came to make sure kids were in school) because she was afraid Eva would get hurt at school. I 've found this book pretty interesting because the story is told from a Native American woman's point of view of what her childhood was like, how her family lived and supported themselves and worked together to survive.
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The possibility of native women speaking and voicing their lived experiences, their truths, their histories, and their realities has been an area of much debate in the academy. Scholars continue to deny that 'oral traditions' are valid or valuable and lacks 'scientific imperialism'.
In what ways does the fact that Tulene-Watt's 'voice' and 'evidence', co-edited by a respected anthropologist, Keith Basso, and printed in a bound book, by a respected university press allow Eva to voice her version of history, science, militarism, war, and oppression? In what way does that very process continue to deny indigenous people a voice, unless it is 'authorized' through their legitimating tools: books, English language, with scholars to 'boost' their 'evidence'? Did you feel that Eva's voice provided you the ability to use your own analytical tools and to come to your own conclusions, with her voice helping you? How was this experience (reading and learning) different than the Inuit women's lives, as told through the anthropologists?
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