Interview · North Dakota · Catherine Howard · NDNAEU 2
Themes: Values & generosity, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What are examples of negative things that can have an impact on the circle of life?
What does it mean to show respect to others? What is an example of how I show respect in my life?
Why is it important to look at things like how we dress when we talk about respecting ourselves and others?
What are examples of things that cause a break in the circle of life?
Learn From questions
Have I experienced negative things in my life that have caused me to feel separate from my circle?
What is my relationship with my mother like? What are some things she has taught me?
Is there someone in my life that has been like a mother to me? In what ways?
What are some things that impact my choices in clothing or appearance in general?
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Watch this interview on YouTubeWhen your first born I say I’ll say you have no hair I have no teeth your wrinkled up and I don’t know how you look when you come out but they tell it all so cute look at that little baby’s cute you know and then I draw a great big circle on awana on down my whiteboard and I tell him this is how far you are and I tell them my seven years old how far I am and look I already have circled my circle and I’m here but I said with good things this is how far I reach but if you guys use alcohol and drugs I said you know where are we at when we do these things you know and that in that circle of life is very important to us the way we show ourselves you want to be somebody have respect for you gotta show you want to be crabby you want somebody else to be crabby you know you’re going to get it back you know and I always learn it I worked out with amongst a lot of what she chose and a white people at the four winds I’ll tell them that you know if I see something that they do that I especially the way they dress nowadays the women you know that’s just into our circle we don’t show our breasts we don’t show you know we dress you know the way we were taught long time ago you know nowadays when they shoulder press and sure dress is sitting there like that one lady sitting down der today showing her whole butt on one side you know that’s disrespectful to the men you know and you know sometimes when I sit there shouting hey you know could you cover your leg but you know some people get you know hurt by that this is a circle of life that we think about the circle life is so and encouraging into the Indian ways you know I don’t know if I’ll ever you know met that circle if once you break it they say it’s hard to MIT it but I think we could met it if we change our ways you know and you know and it’s hard you know sometimes like the circle of life to the children when you’re double mother is the ones that’s important in a circle because she’s the one that’s supposed to learn how to children how to walk and so the father works many years ago that happened but ever since the well fer came into our lives and foster parents came into our life that circle was broken because when many years ago and now before the foster parents came in you never hear foster parents from 1944 on back to nineteen fifty four because I looked it up 1944 onto 1953 there was no foster parent when a parent is an alcoholic and they’re always drunk the aunt is going there take the children take care of the children they all work together so there is no foster parents you know that’s a circle of life you know alcohol breaks that but you know you can minute that circle of life you can talk about that all day and there is a lot of good things that come out of that circle
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