Foregrounding Place

Highway 87 is a long stretch of road just before you enter onto the Hopi reservation. That last little hill which you climb, where the old child center was located, I give a huge sigh because it is there that I feel I am finally home. In the distance you can see the mesa’s that make up the Hopi villages. That little hill always seems like it takes so long to reach it before it gives way to the site which we have waited five hours in the car to see. Once you are over that hill there is still a vast amount of distance that needs to be covered before you reach your final destination. You still have to climb the mesa to get where you are trying to reach.  

A Trip Never Taken

       Sitting in a coffee shop examining all that is happening around me. Loving the smell of variety of coffee which people are drinking, the various conservations they are having. Taking it all in the most amazing place to be if you love looking at Architectural buildings. Ornate buildings, tapestries, furniture, everywhere you look. Things seem to fit together like it was predestined to be this way when they were creating these amazing buildings in the past. It would take someone years to completely appreciate the city and all that it has to offer.

Peer Review

First of all just wanted to apologize because I know that I did not have all the prompts completed last week and I know that she will not accept them so I just have to get what I'm given :)
Brandon Mills: While reading your article my stomach actually cringed. We all seem to not think about the things which we put into our systems let alone how it is effecting our environment. Because I am guilty of that as well whatever is fast and convenient and one the way home is what we have. Although we do tend to stay away from Taco Bell like you my tummy does not agree with the food. "Gypsies Tramps and Thieves" I really enjoyed reading this post you did take the advice from the readings and changed up your style of writing which I found very convincing.
Katie Arrivas: "The Mysterious Burnt Piano" was quite funny and very entertaining. It reminded me of the things we use to do as teenagers. Living on the reservation drinking was of course was illegal but that never stopped us running down the road in the boonies with our keg with nothing to guide us but the star lit skies. In your writing for prompt 8 you tend to go back and forth between past and present tense.
Kimberly Thomas: Great post for prompt 8 made me think of all those childhood friends that I have lost its amazing how many there are.

Proposed changes to tribal constitution.

Tribal government is an area in which I was taught that we never concern ourselves with concerns such as these because we have our own way in which tribal concerns are addressed and the form in which the federal government is trying to get us to become a part of will effect the ways in which the Hopi people have governed themselves for years. If the Hopi people consider themselves traditional why are they trying to adopt the governance of those that have tried to control their people? Which lead to the Pueblo Revolt. It is something that is hard for me to understand because I have not actually sat or had a family member apart of the tribal council which makes these kinds of decisions. Our traditional form of government is a leader who in a sense makes the decisions for the clan family and is the way that my family still does things today. My uncle does not have total control over everything there are family meetings involved and we make these decisions as a group and things progress from there. This proposition which the government has put forth on the Hopi people does in fact undermine tribal sovereignty. I thought the whole purpose of sovereignty was so that we are able to govern ourselves without anyone trying to tell us otherwise. We have our constitution set up the way that we want it to and it has worked for over 50 years what makes the federal government think that it needs to change? Who are they to tell us that the way we live our lives and govern ourselves is not the way of the world? What makes them think that the way they live their lives and govern their people is better than how we live? If this was correct we wouldn’t have the global warming issues and all the problems we have in the world today and there would not be congress women getting shot while out meeting the people. Maybe they need to rethink the way in which they run the country and not tell us how to run ours.