Miss Navajo

On Saturday night a new Miss America was crowned. The pageant got me thinking about whether a Native American woman has ever won. Way back in 1926, Norma Smallwood was not only given the Miss America title but also the honor of being the first Native American to win. During my research, I found a pageant strictly for Native American women called Miss Navajo. Pageant contestants must be unmarried, over 18 years of age, be a high school graduate, and be able to speak the Navajo language. They compete in such activities such as: answering traditional and modern Navajo customs questions both in Navajo and English, sheep butchering, and performing a talent. Unlike most pageants, Miss Navajo focuses on the beauty within.

Here's a link to their website: http://www.missnavajocouncil.org/main.htm

Also, can you image the Miss America contestants trying to butcher a sheep?

one of my favorite scenes from Disney's Peter Pan. I never realized how stereotypical it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_at9dOElQk

Love Medicine Quizzes

Here is a site that has some quizzes for each chapter of Love Medicine. You have to pay to get the full version, but the free version still has plenty of questions for each chapter might help you prepare for a quiz or test on Love Medicine.

http://www.enotes.com/love-medicine/quizzes

study guide

I was trying to start that working on the study guide that is due on the day of the test and was wondering what things we should put on it besides quotes and ids?

Flesh and Blood

For some reason I never quite understand the end of the chapter. I know y'all probably already talked about this too, on Friday, but I wasn't there. I was wondering if anyone understood the end of the Flesh and Blood Chapter. It says, "I put my hand through what scarred him. I held it out for him. And when he took it with all the strength of his arms, I pulled him in." What is it that scarred him? The letter? I know she left whether she found the letter or not up in the air... for him to figure out on his own ... the whole sugar or salt thing. Anyway, if anyone knows exactly what it's getting at, let me know.

Notes?

Hey guys, I wasn't here on Friday. If anyone has any notes that they took that may be important, could you please e-mail them to me. The chapter was "Flesh and Blood." Thank you!! (=

Native Americans in Video Games

http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-native-american-stereotypes/a-20081124115245683057

This is a fun article worth reading. It goes through just about every stereotypical depiction of Native Americans in video games.
Personal favorite has to be #6.

Bridges, bridges, bridges!

http://www.mythsdreamssymbols.com/dsbridge.html

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/keyword.bridge/qx/symbolism_details.htm

http://themoderatevoice.com/14347/the-bridge-as-dream-symbol-the-rainbow-bridge/

"Generically, the symbol of the Bridge is an archetypal representation. An archetype is thought to be a universal, primal idea, ‘a first model,’ a sub strata of the psyche that cannot be grasped in its entirety, so we perceive that phenomena through representations or symbols."

Just a smorgasbord of information of bridges, symbolism, and the whatnot.

Shroud of Turin

This is the image of the Shroud of Turin. Sister Leopolda mentions that Marie's dress looks like a shroud in the book. We talked about this in class today so I looked it up. The shroud of Turin is a linen cloth which displays the image of what appears to be Jesus Christ. People believe that the shroud is the cloth that was placed on the body of Jesus Christ at his death.

I was just wondering, at the end of the chapter The Plunge of The Brave, why did Nector just let the house burn and why did Marie take him back after or is that just Nector's imagination?