Within Kidwells writing the key point that I focused on was what I brought up in class. I find it very sad that throughout what I have learned my entire life from my elders and through my own experiences in dealing with the government. That after they broke their treaties and stole what was rightfully the natives land again! Having not taught the generations being born and raised in this country the truth about it's history and where people have come from and what was here before them. The next step for the government and places of higher education is to decrease awareness and the knowledge of what has already happened. If we do not know our history we are doomed to repeat it. It seems like the more the people of our country gain from hard work and determination to regain what as rightfully theirs to begin with the more we lose. The more is taken away from us by other sanctions and laws. Maybe it is just finally from my knowledge expanding on the subject but it seems to me that as I learn more about who I am and where I came from I lose opportunities to teach my children the same things. As my father spent much of his life and a large portion of mine teaching me about the land and how to interact with it in a respectful way. It seems like my children won't have the chances or opportunity for me to teach them these things because there won't be the places or opportunity to pass them on foe them to learn as I have.
The comments on the plateau portal I left were under the Yakima nation one under Chief Josephs Ceremonial Robes, and the other was for the treaty breaking and land issues.
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