The
final project of the semester, I plan on focusing on “The Absolutely True Diary
of a Part- Time Indian”. My main focuses will be education and poverty.
Throughout the novel I felt like Junior’s story of his life on the reservation
was really centered around his quality of education and the little to no money
his family had. Junior expresses his struggle with necessities such as food, gas,
and clothes. It is not only his family that is facing poverty, the rest of the
Native American community. When taking a look at education, Junior was
originally attending his underfunded school which had outdated resources for
the students. All the students are not provided with equal opportunities in order
for them to be successful.
For the first resource I will be
using “Native American Healthcare, Bureaucracy, and Poverty: Institutional
Problems and Solutions”. Throughout this article it gives statistics on
poverty levels of Native Americans, it shares that they are at least
twenty-five percent of Native Americans who live below the poverty line. It
also expresses how living in poverty can affect many aspects of your
livelihood. The second resource I will
be using “Native American Students Going to and Staying in Postsecondary
Education: An Intervention Perspective”. The focus of this article is giving insight
about Native American students trying to pursue a degree and only a small
percent accomplish this goal. It describes how this can be related to their
education before entering a college or university. Both of these articles will
help add to the focus of what my final project will be about.
The resources I have selceted
Adelman, Howard
S., et al. “Native American Students Going to and Staying in Postsecondary
Education: An Intervention Perspective.” American Indian Culture and
Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, 1 June 2013,
escholarship.org/uc/item/3hz4v9gg.
Alexie, S.
(2007). The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Little,
Brown.
Sealey, Larkin.
“Poverty and Mental Health in the American Indian Community.” Columbia
Social Work Review, vol. 6, no. 1, 2008, pp. 18–28,
journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/cswr/article/view/1980/943, https://doi.org/10.7916/cswr.v6i1.1980.
