Curricular Response

For this map assignment an image I choose was one of a boat travelling in the sea accompanied by the quote, “If you ain’t an Indian, fool, then you really ain’t American,” (My land by Litefoot). The reason I choose the boat image was to represent the arrival of other people. This arrival was to display colonization and how Indigenous people where on the land prior to any one else. Another image I used was of a city skyline and the quote, “replaced all the greenery with concrete buildings,” (My Land by Litefoot). The reason I choose the image of a city skyline was to show in a literal sense the changing aspect from greenery to concrete.

Core Competency Self-Assessment

When completing this assignment, I first struggled with selecting the appropriate quotes to use. I was able to overcome this by thinking about the quote’s connection to the song, how different binary opposites could apply and recognizing the more valuable significance to some words than to others. It was also difficult to create a clear image that could display what I had in mind. Typically, English assignments focus on the writing aspect, but this was challenging as my chosen drawing had to convey what I wanted to say. I overcame this struggle by finding keywords within the quotes and relating them to my drawings.