Today marks the second day of the Native Pipeline program at Pitzer College. The day was a very packed and busy one. Our first class was Aztec Math. This coarse in particular was very interesting to me because of how the natives used this method way back in the day. It’s astonishing to see how smart our people are but sad at the same time because of the loss of tradition fading away. One of the perks of this program is that we are being taught to remember all the traditions and ways of our people. Doing activities like drum making and learning traditional dances really connect all of us back to our roots as…Native Americans. The worst thing that can happen is the corruption of a community, and as we learn to pass along and share our knowledge the better.
During our trip today at Western University, we learned the different out looks on life. As David Zachary stated about how life is depicted of different lenses – and which ever one we choose to look through we must be knowledgable about it. When we discussed the use of animal testing at Western University today, I understood many of us were upset about that fact and thinking to our selfies “Oh that’s so sad how they’re using innocent animals for testing to cure diseases and such.” The fact of it is, that we as humans created all these problems and diseases. It is horrible and wrong of us to do such a thing, but we can’t all be so naive. Doctors are there to try and help us survive, live and carry on with our lives. I can tell you from what I heard today , that the Medical Doctors have no intent of hurting these animals but the truth is that we, as human beings, are to blame. We are the ones who pollute the earth, do stupid things , and bring all these bacterial disease and terrible outputs into our earth. We put our selves in this situation where doctors have to test on innocent animals to help cure us, the people. I hope if you read this you understand we are to blame, but it is never to late to change our nasty ways. -Thank you
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