I am from the village of Shungnak, Shungnak is on the Kobuk River. Kids my age don't know much about ANCSA. My grandma would talk about how it was back than. She lives in the village of Shungnak. She told me how they got food, they would go to camp and move during the winter. She didn't worry about who owned the land, there wasn't a piece of paper that said anybody owned the land. In the reading it says, " Land was generally held by the group as a whole, with perhaps the exception of individual hunting or fishing camps. These boundries of control were not based on written documents or maps, but on actual traditions and practice." My grandma knew how to get food and knew how to live in the weather conditions because her parents taught her.
Today life is so different. Life is easier today. It was different for my grandma. Back then it wasn't so easy for my grandma to get to places, for me it is because now there is transportation. It also wasn't easy to get a good education, my grandma didn't graduate. Things are easier now. Back than it wasn't.
Today I think kids my age should know about ANCSA because it is important to know about what made Alaska how it is today.
I agree that kids should know about ANCSA
ReplyDeleteI agree with both of you. It is important for kids our age and maybe even younger kids to learn about ANCSA because it's part of our history and how got our land.
ReplyDeleteI agree that kids should be taught about ANSCA and that things are easier today than they were before. We receive education now, transportation is quick and easy, and we can go to a grocery store for food if we have to, but I think we also lost something by making everything so easy. Most of the native elders from back when talk about they're work, how everyone cooperated, and everyone shared. Today I see a lot of people being stingy with they're stuff and food even if someone else is needs it more than them. A lot of people don't work together well, they're are one or two leaders who the others happen to like enough to listen to, or one or two people that do most of the work while the others slack. I think we may have gotten it a bit too easy. The lessons learned and required for survival back then were good lessons, lessons that many people don't learn anymore which is really sad to see. I hope those lesson are kept alive through native traditions and culture.
ReplyDeleteEveryone should be educated about ANCSA, not just children but adults also. I realize how little I knew about my corporation and I wondered how much did my siblings know about ANCSA? If everyone had a better understanding about the history and the current events happening now, we'd all be unified more and able to make smarter decisions.
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