While “surfing” the internet just the other day out of sheer curiosity or perhaps some bleak attempt to expand my seemingly diminished prospects of reading material, I ran across a rather interesting website. Searching for topics under the wide subject, …
Jennifer Frasch lives in Bowler, Wisconsin, and is a freshman at the College of the Menominee Nation; she is grateful to the college’s caring teachers and staff members. After receiving her Associate’s Degree she plans to transfer to the university …
Aileen Fox-Plant is an Anishnabe (Ojibway/Odawa/Pottawatomi) tribal member of the Wikwemikong Unceded First Nation and her reserve is on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. She has a 3.6 GPA in her major of Elementary Education at Salish Kootenai College, where her husband Albert is also a full-time student. …
Angela M. Hover Angela M. Hover is a graduate of Ronan High School and a Computer Science major at Salish Kootenai College. She intends to continue her education at an art institute in California, with the goal of working at …
Where exactly was the expression, “Aye” derived from? I have often wondered about it, and have concluded that it had to be an Indian who made it up. It is obviously a universal expression among Indian people, because it never …
I used to watch Millie-that was what they called her, since she wasn’t allowed to use her real name at the boarding school-through the gate of the fence that separated the girls’ playground from the boys’ side. Millie was the …
I remember clearly the day they first knocked on our door. It was a beautiful day in early summer. School was out, and my brother and I were looking forward to another summer of doing nothing but swimming, lazing around …
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I am in my third year at Salish Kootenai College and am majoring in Elementary Education. Attending college has challenged me to look at my life and my future from a new perspective and has raised my self-esteem. For a …
I believe a person should know where he or she came from. In keeping with this belief, for the past three years I have begun to learn more about the customs and language of my people, the Salish people. During …
If I were to name the title of this essay myself, I would change the word “education” to “knowledge.” Although gaining an education is very important to me, it is the knowledge which I yearn for. Above anything else, I …
