I found this piece to be interesting, and at times shocking. Hearing about how the author felt so oppressed by having to be both strong and self reliant, and yet dependent, and about how she says women deal with this internal dilemma was quite shocking. I honestly had no idea this was going on, so to hear her speak about it was quite shocking. I was also quite surprised to hear about her experience in catholic school. She talks about how her teachers made Natives sound like savages, yet she was Native American. I don't know how I would be able to handle this, a teacher slandering my people like that. I am just left confused as to how she stayed strong through this. My final reaction to this piece though was one of interest when she talks about how her family, mainly her mother, passed down stories about the past, and about relatives, and ancestors. I was quite interested by this, because my family didn't engage in much story telling about the past, my grandparents were keen believers most times in "the past should stay the past" so they didn't like talking about their past. So to hear about that being a part of her life was something very interesting.
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