Week 13 Review

This was actually a very interesting gif with some really helpful information. I didn't actually know that I could text questions to the front desk I mean goodness that could have come in real handy when doing research projects. I do wonder how quickly they respond though and how many students actually use that service. Most of the other things on this list I am at least somewhat familiar with although I really sure utilize the reserve textbooks more often. 

Thanksgiving Break Announcement 

The only announcement I have to make is late. There was a protest held at the capitol building today and although people can't attend it now since it's already happened, I encourage everyone to look for it in the news. I believe it was called the Oklahoma rally against hate. In addition, I encourage people to keep their eyes open for opportunities to join protests in the future.

Review: One Day More

I really very nearly done with this class. I'm trying to do a lot of extra credit in order to get it out of the way because I know for a fact that I'm going to have to focus very hard on my upcoming social theory take-home final. I have a whole week to do it which means it's going to be very difficult. Mostly what I'm looking forward to though, is taking a week off from classes and going home.

I love helping my mom cook although I love it more when my brothers choose to pitch in and help. They've been doing it in the last few years though so I don't have too much to complain about. Mostly, though, I need to be able to catch up on my reading while I'm free. There's an awful lot of reading I need to do so I'm not entirely sure I'm going to be able to do it all but I really do need to try. I think that if I don't, this take home final is going to be a lot harder and more stressful than it needs to be. 

I know for sure that I need to go back and read the book on authoritarianism because I feel like he’s definitely going to ask us about it on the test. I had only read the 3^rd chapter of it because that’s what a classmate had told me to read when in actuality we were supposed to read the whole thing. That book’s huge though so I’m apprehensive about that. I also skipped a whole week of class do to stress from the election and need to do my reading on that too. Finally I have to do the reading for the very last week in that class. I’ve never heard of the mushroom at the end of the world but the professor says it’s a weird book. I’ll take his word for it. 

(the possibly primitivist book we have to read)

Review: Vine Deloria

Today, November 13th, is the anniversary of the death of Vine Deloria Jr. I wouldn't have known that without having read the articles. I don't know a lot about the philosopher except that he was the first, widely read and popularly acknowledged Native philosopher. In the class I took last semester (Native American Philosophy, which I encourage everyone to take), we read his book God is Red.

It was a really poignant book although I would caution any Christian who considers reading it to go into it with an understanding of the devastation that has been wrought on North and South America in the name of Christianity. It doesn't go light on those topics but it brings up some very good and very important critiques not only of Christianity but of all proselytizing religions. The book, and the class as a whole, had a real impact on me. Native issues was never something that was in the forefront of my mind before but I've really tried to be careful and considerate of it since then.

I'm glad to be able to acknowledge the death of such a great thinker and revolutionary activist.

(Vine Deloria Jr., 2002 Photograph by Cyrus McCrimmon

Associated Press)