Month: October 2017

Native American Field Trip

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On Tuesday, October 17, we went to the Saugatuck Center for the arts and watched a documentary called ‘We the 7th’. This documentary talked about the Dakota Access Pipeline. They also talked about Native American history, discrimination against Native Americans, and their families. After the movie, we had the unique experience to talk tot he producers and then walk through a Native American art Exhibition. I enjoyed this experience as I have never had the opportunity to hear about Native American culture and history from their point of view. In the museum, one thing that popped out to me was this; Emerald Ash. Emerald Ash is a disease that can wipe out Ash trees like you licking a plate. The Native Americans thought of the disease as a monster that eats the trees in the night. this disease was a thought hing for the Native Americans due to the fact that Ash trees are sacred and used for many things by the Native Americans.

 

 

By James Oosterhouse

Link credit: https://daplpipelinefacts.com/

Saugatuck Center for the arts: http://www.sc4a.org/

Living On One Dollar – LOWE

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Today we watched the movie “Living on one Dollar”. It was eye-opening for me because over 1.1 billion people experience extreme poverty everyday and some of us can’t even start to imagine what it would be like. They live on informal jobs, adding up to less than a dollar a day, and never knowing when the next pay is going to come. I found this movie very interesting and I immediately felt guilty because some of us live on more money for one week and they do in one year. We complain about food we don’t like, where they get fed the same thing everyday with little to no nutrition. the movie “Living On One Dollar” was a good experience and can’t even begin to imagine what it is like to live in extreme poverty. The movie was set place in a small, poor, town called Peña Blanca, in Guatemala. It is crazy how little they have, and they’re still ready to give to help others at the same time. When w take for granted everything we have, and we want more. We don’t want to give to others and always say we ‘need’ more stuff, when 14.4% of the world’s population lives on less than one dollar a day.