week 6 response

I missed my reflection last week -- oops. This quarter has been very hectic with family activities and taxes, and I work in accounting. Though I am missing class today, I feel connected to the group in knowledge, because we are all consuming the same material. I feel that this is integral in utilizing all aspects of education. In addition to the information the instructor provides, I also receive information from speakers, texts, videos, and other forms of media. This inspires me to go on and do my own further research, whether it be by going out in the field and looking at plants, or by doing a quick google search on attributes of the Pacific Northwest region.

In addition to these tools of knowledge, my peers play a huge part in this class in particular. Working with a group last week to make posters of the last 20,000 years was hugely beneficial and I hope to do more group work like that.

For my plant journal, I will be collecting plant specimens while hiking either Twin Falls or Rattlesnake, whatever is flowering best when I go out. I hope to invite several classmates along with me, for companionship or to gather specimens of their own.

Robert's visit to the class was very interesting to me. I think the topic that interested me the most is how the water treaties were interpreted by the Indigenous population as they would be able to with their background knowledge, a kind of knowledge and worldview vastly different from what is taught in American schools. I think this is the underlying issue in so many relations between Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous peoples. I look forward to learning about this further this week.