Author: MacKaylapitzer

1.  The common application is helpful because while your applying you find out information about college and it takes you through some steps on how to apply.

2. They need to be prepared for the application. When I first looked at it I thought it looked kind of weird, you need to know the your information because obviously your parents can’t fill out your college application for you :D.. I started filling out my high school application and I had no idea on what to do I had to ask my auntie all these questions. So I guess kind of be prepared on what you think might be on there, there can be some things on there you wouldn’t expect, who knows, you won’t know until you fill it out.

3. It is important to do research before you apply because you need to know about the college and you need to know the majors, you need to know the some things you never expected while you do research, so when you do research and you find something you didn’t expect then your like “Oh okay this is good to know” so you can look things up you weren’t prepared for or thought were on it.

4. I think it’s important to write a strong college essay because maybe the better the essay the better chance you have getting into the college. You also have to have good grades, honestly this year I didn’t come out with the best grades, and I’m going to be in 11th so that is most likely gong to affect a college I want to apply for. So get good grades.

5. Some great tips on writing a good essay is write about your self and not others, they want to know about you, not your family your the one applying they want to know about you, have people go over it and re read it, get a lot of people to read it and give you feedback on how you did and if they say you need to make a few changes, then make them it’s only a few changes.

6. Some tips for telling my own story is I talk about my problems a lot so sorry, but I also want to tell how it’s affected me, how I wanted to give up but got back because the people who love me and believe in me encouraged me to get back up, It’s like Canoe Pulling, it’s our tradition in Lummi, we do races and if you lose don’t get so mad easy just keep trying and one day you’ll make it to 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place just as long as you try and have fun, not everything is about competition as long as you do it and have fun with the people you love. 😀 MacKayla Sharon George

1. I like the songs, we learn new songs and we talk about how we were created. I feel great when I can learn new songs, one thing I find weird is when I have a hard time speaking my one language and yet when we learn new song with different languages we can catch on real quick. I like the circles also because w get to express our feelings, talk about our culture and ancestors and talk about how we were all close and how we all together at one time. I love my culture my “Schelangen” Our way of life. I also love to learn about other cultures to. Especially when we are told stories about the elders like about the Boldt decision and Frank’s landing. I loved learning about Billy Frank Jr. and watching clips of the things the white people did to the natives long ago just because we wanted our fish.

2. It helps us by knowing more about your culture, every tribe is taught to have patience. You need to learn and be patient, give things time to start the change, don’t assume things are gonna change in the snap of your finger. Things take to start and you need to have some of these things in the real world to. Have patience, don’t get mad so quickly, be kind to everyone you see even if their mean, my grandpa always says “kill them with kindness” you have to use some things form your culture and use it in the real world.

3. They prepare us for giving back to our community by getting a degree and going back home and working for your tribe. The place you grew up the people who helped you, the family who helped raise you, you need to give back to your community because some people gave you everything and you don’t just want to leave and never come back, you need to give back to all the people who helped raised you, encouraged you , discouraged you, all the people who helped you and didn’t, you just have to show them you can do it and show them what your made of :D.     Sincerely- MacKayla Sharon George

1. When I was at Wishtoyo I made a clapper but I dropped it and it split all the way down the middle D: so it was good while it lasted. I had a great time making it I sat next to bingo while I made it and he made his so I had a great time. 2. The teachings I related to most is that are cultures are kind of similar but different and our things we make our different we have 2 clappers and theirs is just one stick so I really enjoyed that. I love the songs. I think it’s weird I can easily catch on to a new song but I have a hard time singing our own cultural songs. 3. My favorite part about the village was getting to talk to Mati and Luhui and little more than I did I could not quit laughing when Luhui told me that Mati crochet! 😀 It’s like you can’t imagine a big scary looking guy like him crocheting 😀 Oh my god my stomach was cramping so bad from laughing and I thought I was gonna have an asthma attack from laughing so hard !! :,D Sorry Mati you said not to tell anyone but oh my god! When Luhui told me I just could not quit laughing I was almost crying :D… 4. One thing I don’t like is when I get so close to people I suddenly have to leave and I cry and I’m just a big cry baby but I felt like crying so hard after I left Wishtoyo today. I got a to take a selfie with Mati and Luhui and Alyssa so we all got a picture together and I will cherish it forever and I miss them so much already!! I hope they get to make it Sunday before we leave because I really want to see them off before I have to go back home. I’m kind of excited to go back home and I don’t know why? Probably just because I haven’t been away from my little sister Kadejah for 2 weeks and she’s only 2 an half years old and I’m going crazy without her!!

heading to Wishtoyo!❤️ I’m so excited!!!!!  Happy I finally get to see Mati and Luhui❤️ and everyone else!

The first college that comes to mind to me is the University of Hawaii at Manoa. They offer varsity sports, student publications and media outlets, on and off campus internships and employment opportunities, and study aboard programs around the world. The University of Hawaii Manoa is something I found in the common app class and I really want to go there after I found it in the common app class. Hawaii is somewhere I’ve always wanted to go to and I think I want to go there for college and go into Nursing or Native Studies. I think an idea on how to relax after a long week of studying is drawing or writing. Maybe painting because I love to do all of those things when I want to relax. Or maybe even taking a walk, I always walk down the beach when I’m at home and it’s beautiful and green at home so that makes even more perfect. sincerely- MacKayla S. George

1. I really liked learning about the native food and what the native people had and made back in the day. Especially when he said that the stuff that looked like putting was a treat to them. I’ve always wondered what our native people ate and how they made it. I also liked making the rock a seeing a few rocks that were made.

2. My job for the native cooking was to crack the pinyon nut with the rock and I had fun doing that. It took a lot of patience but me, Thelma, Alyssa, Trisha, and Joye cracked them open and I felt like it took a lot of patience todo it. But back at home the elders always tell us to have patience, every elder probably tells a young one that. It was beneficial and nutritious because they are nuts and they are grain I’m going to guess and they are our native peoples food, they ate it way back in the day, also good for your spirit if it’s a native traditional food.

3. My day was okay I started off tired and sleepy and it started raining and I got kind of excited but then I found out we weren’t going to the village and it made me really upset that we weren’t going. I felt really mad, sad , and upset because that was one of the main things I looked forward to was going to the wishtoyo. We still are going to go but it won’t be for as long as we were suppose to stay there. ): I hope we can just go and see them I really miss all of them and I looked forward to that…. sincerely- MacKayla S. George 

Being away from home for almost a week made me miss my little sister’s and little brother  Tristah, Kadejah, Dylan, my grandpa, and my mom! I’m definitely not home sick for Lummi.. I just miss my family not Lummi. I guess I kind of miss the nature it was all green there I don’t see that much here, so i miss seeing all green too.

2. One thing that makes it hard to be away from home is that I don’t get to go visit my mom and my siblings and family aren’t here. I missed a birthday party already and I just really have a hard time not seeing my mom because were so close.

3. One thing that is great about being away from home is that I’m not in such a crowded place like my house. I have a bed to sleep on 😀 our door is always open at home so I’m always on the couch because I always have cousins there. Another thing I don’t miss is that there isn’t such loud noises here like really loud cars going by bumping their music and its really quit here.

4. I had a really good day I got to spend my day with Rose and that made me really happy she told me a story. We kept kind of getting interrupted so the story kept having to be continued but thats alright because we finished it and Oh My Gosh! I love sage and we got that today so it made my day even better. We also got to hear those guys sing today and we got to learn about different cultures and learn a bit of their songs so my day was just AMAZING! I hope tomorrow and sunday go better.. And I can’t wait and go to the village! I’m so excited to see Mati and Luhui!!! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!  Sincerely- MacKayla Sharon George 

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When I got to look at all of these artifacts I was shocked and I thought it was kind of cool but I was kind of mad when I heard the lady say they found one artifact at a burial sight! I was upset buy that I feel like some of those natives should get there artifacts should be returned to the tribe of where they came from.. But I also feel like if they got them back there are some natives out there who will go and sell them and pawn them to get money.. I have seen some native stuff in pawn shops that some white people shouldn’t even know about! Some parts of our Lummi culture is sacred and people don’t know about. So I feel like maybe they shouldn’t give them to the owners but maybe the tribe our contact archives or something. I’m not saying they will go out and do that but there are people who do that.

2. I think some native cultures and college education can go together but not all because like I said not all traditions and our ways of life (Schelangen) should be exposed but some of it that people already know about can be taught. There can be Native History or Native Studies that talk about different tribes and what some of them do. Or take field trips to a tribe near them and talk to the elders about their culture.

3. My day was okay I felt kind of heavy hearted today for some reason. I have no idea why I felt like this I woke up okay and just after about an hour I start feeling not normal. Especially in the Museum because seeing all of those artifacts made me think of the people who had them before they were probably taken. When I was there I thought of the video that Rose showed us about the white people taking the kids from the parents and putting them in boarding schools. Then the other part of the video where it showed all the Native Americans that were piled up dead with other people surrounding them just starring at them. I kind of had a picture of that stuck in my head when I looked at all of those artifacts. Then after that I start thinking of the Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a part-time Indian where the teacher told Junior that he killed the indians. Not literally but he was killing the culture and he was hurting them and killing their culture but not actually killing them, and that he wanted Junior to leave that school because he didn’t want to do that to him. He wanted him to go out and explore and see the world and not stay there. So I think that all of that kind of sort of ties together into one thing. But that’s my day and I DO HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL SEE THIS AND LOOK AT THE ARTIFACTS AND FIND SOME PEOPLE OR TRIBE THAT OWNS THESE AND HOPEFULLY THEY GET RETURNED!! Sincerely- MacKayla Sharon George (:

A resource to get to help get college is

1. Our councilor Matt Verata, Randy Kaui, My Grandpa James Scott Sr.

2. My whole family is helping me prepare my grandpa is the main one though! He wants me to go away and get an education, but I also want to go back and give back to my community.

3. I am helping myself prepare for college by going on a few field trips to other colleges and I also look up some colleges I’m interested in.

4. I will help and encourage other friends and family by showing them what we do in a slideshow about Pitzer and talk to them about Pitzer college and I want to encourage them to look for things their interested in and what colleges they want to go to.

5. I had a great and amazing day. the part that really got to me today was when we sat down in a class with Rose and Joe. When they talked about the missing and murdered aboriginal woman, it made me feel really sad. Knowing that some people don’t care they think they just went out to parties and got drunk. Sometimes I feel like a lot of people think that all Natives do is drink, party, and do drugs! Well there are some of us who are trying to succeed in life and are doing programs like this at Pitzer to try and have a better education and give back to the community.