Native American Autobiography

Even though you might talk briefly with some of your peers before, during, and after class you really don't get to know them. Having the opportunity to create an autobiography which will be later shared with a peer in your classroom might be intimidating, but I remember that I am also reading someone's else autobiography and maybe she/he might feel intimidating for sharing a personal story with a total stranger. Deanna told me her autobiography in which I later wrote a biography, in which she later review if there was anything that was missing. We later meet together to discuss about our autobiographies, biographies, and readings. I began thinking that we really do not anything in common. There might be small similarities that we might share,
“Society constructs itself as monolingual and Anglocentric, and tries to keep children's linguistic and cultures worlds apart”(living). Many bilinguals or people that have two cultures might be hard to keep their cultures apart from each other. Deanna is Native American and I am Hispanic/American, we keep many of our traditions that are not only part of our culture but also of our identity. Those are the traditions we don't only want to pass down to our children/future children because we find them important but also it part of who we are. Yet, we still have that American culture having some part of our identity, even though we might never feel completely Americans because we are part of two different worlds. “…we should value and encourage the experience of living in simultaneous worlds”(Living). We should encourage not only our peers and family members, but our students that it is fine to live to two worlds. There shouldn't be a separation in living two worlds, being an American in the outside world (e.g. school and work) and being Native American or Hispanic with other people that share our same culture. Shouldn't we represent the culture we have a much more connection with? It all begins with showing our students to embrace different cultures around the world, exposing them that there is much more than the American