Interview · North Dakota · Arlene Wadsworth
Themes: Identity & belonging, Education & learning
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. What does Arlene Wadsworth say about accepting one's identity in different settings?
2. How does she connect denial of identity with fear of mistreatment?
3. What possibilities does she describe for living with more than one cultural influence?
Learn From questions
1. When have I felt pressure to hide part of who I am?
2. What could I do to make it safer for someone else to identify themselves honestly?
3. How might I hold the different influences in my life without rejecting an important part of myself?
Transcripts
08 Arlene Wadsworth: Identity
Watch this interview on YouTubeWell it’s really up to individual to make that decision if they want to go in the path of being living the right way or being living in the Indian Way or they can live in both you know but learn how to accept it you know just don’t push one say I’m not white or I’m not Indian you know I’ve seen that people students do that they go into the white world and wonder an Indian and then when they get to the city they like the white world they denied that do their su or their Indian they don’t want to have nothing to do with that they you know tell everybody that they’re not Indian they say they’re like a Spanish or another you know but you should never deny who you really are admit you know but I guess you know you hear of Indians getting abuse so much that they deny who they are you know they don’t want to meet that they’re Indian they’re scared they’re gonna get abused or you know mistreated
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