Throughout the reading Melissa Nelson described the struggles she had to go through because of the moving she had to do and the understanding of her background. Her quote “To learn who I am today, on this land I live on, I’ve had to recover that heritage and realize a multicultural self. I think in this sentence she is trying to get the reader to understand not only for her to learn about her families past she needs to learn more about herself. She needs to understand the many cultures and religions that are out there and understand the differences. She follows that quote with “By studying the process others have gone through to embrace the cultural richness of diverse backgrounds I have come to understand the importance of decolonizing my mind.” I think that quote describes what she meant by recovering her heritage and realizing her multicultural self.
The problems that she raised are the struggles her parents had to go through growing up. Her mom not being allowed to speak a language that she was brought up on and her father same with the father. Although her parents were treated that way she was not brought up the same way. Her parents let her believe and follow anything she wanted, her or her brother.
The author wrote this to inform people of how people of Native American cultures grew up in America. Melissa described how she was raised and informed us on the challenges she was brought upon, such as learning the other colonial history. She explained how she lived in California and although she was not a part of the Ohlone Territory she still helped them out and learned about their cultural. She stated “we all have earth-based spiritual traditions in our past and we should work to uncover our heritage.” Shows that she was trying to broaden her horizons and learn more. I think that is great that she was trying to learn about other traditions and was also helping them protect diversity and quality of life in that region she was living upon.
In the beginning of the reading the author seems to take for granted the reasoning to learn about our cultures and traditions. It seemed that she only wanted to know about the Ojibwe traditions and nothing else. She does learn the other traditions at the end though so I think that was a great opportunity for her to make her more multicultural.
Through out the reading you could tell she really knew her information and she studied a lot about her ancestry and the different traditions. So I want to say most of the information was facts that she learned growing up in the different territories and the different people she met. Melissa’s evidence was very accurate and persuasive she really helped me understand what she was talking about with the detail she gave. You could also tell that she really enjoyed learning about the different traditions and was happy she took that opportunity.
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