Read the article. Make a text to self, text to text or text to world connection. Please remember to refer back to the text when making a connection. Respond to at least two other student entries.
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Ryan
3/12/2015 08:26:08 am
In this article it talks about Native American crops and new way to grow them and how if it is good or bad for you. Although I can make a text to world connection. My connection would be that people in the world are finding many new possibility's. Some people are finding old artifacts from ling ago and are finding new ways to have more of them. But yet people Do not know if it is good for them or the environment around it. Also if it were something to eat they wouldn't know if it would do any thing to effect you or harm you.
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/12/2015 08:40:04 am
I agree with ye statements Ryan. Your connection is good!
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Julian
3/12/2015 08:43:23 am
I agree, Ryan . Natives need to get back to their original diet.
Jay the cool ninja
3/12/2015 10:38:43 am
I agree with you Ryan because the article is talking about how good or bad a native plant can be.
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Connie
3/12/2015 10:54:56 am
I agree. People sometimes don't know if a new kind of food is good or bad for them. I also agree that it could harm/poison the people
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Natasha
3/12/2015 08:30:40 am
I think that the company Little Earth has a big point. Sometimes, when I am walking along the street, I see Native Americans, and they don't look that skinny. Fried bread doesn't seem like a healthy thing to eat. Usually, fried foods are very unhealthy. Some examples are fried chicken, fried bread, and fried vegetables. One time, I read a comic book, and it had pictures of Native Americans looking fat. I think that people shouldn't make fun of Native Americans, because thewy wouldn't like it if they were made fun of. I am happy for the Native Americans, now that they get to return to their old ways, their traditional ways. Some Native Americans were taught to grow their traditional foods when they were young. " Lussier is a member of the Red Lake nation. He grew up watching his grandmother and mother tend gardens full of vegetables. He says he now tries to live by the words of his grandmother, who lived into her 80s. Many times she said to him,' Remember the things that you were taught when you were young."
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Benicio Curiel
3/12/2015 09:11:36 am
I agree with you Natasha because what if the Indians made fun of us, we would not like it
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charlotte
3/12/2015 01:45:30 pm
I agree with you Natasha. It is good that Native Americans can return too their usual diets, because it isn't healthy for them to eat all of the processed foods that we have now, because their bodies are still used to their "heritage crops."
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/12/2015 08:37:35 am
I can make a connection to this article and i'm not really sure if it is text to self or text to world. My connection is that my grandpa is a part time farmer and full time lawyer. (Farms on the weekend works in court on weekdays. His farm is very small and it is only five acres. But he grows a ton of food, trees, and other plants there. My Grandma also works on a farm and is currently not growing anything on her 3 acres. (Her house is HUGE and she has running stream and barn on her property.
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Justine
3/12/2015 11:07:00 am
I do not agree with you because they never mentioned anything about people owning and growing things farms.
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Minerva
3/12/2015 11:11:46 am
I don't really think the farm you described had much to do with the article but I like the way you described it.
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nola
3/12/2015 01:54:19 pm
I do not agree with you because you never mentioned anything about the article or the natives or people getting fat. You only told us your connection which didn't even have anything to do with people over weighted. Also we don't need to know that her house is huge because it's a little random.
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Julian
3/12/2015 08:39:02 am
The article tells us that natives are getting overweight and are getting unhealthyer by the minute. I can make a connection to "familiar foods are tough to give up" because sometimes when I don't know what food sometimes my mom gives me so I try it any way. In a few tries,I get used to it.
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Benicio Curiel
3/12/2015 09:08:49 am
I agree with you Julian because foods can be hard to give up.
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Leilah
3/12/2015 09:24:32 am
I really like your connection and I agre with you because natves ARE getting overweght
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Aidan
3/12/2015 12:28:04 pm
I agree with you Julian because food is really hard to give up and if you eat to much you could get unhealthy easily.
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Leilah
3/12/2015 09:21:28 am
Natve Amercans are getting fat and that is happenig not only to Natve Americans butit is going on all over the world.People are getting fat because of their unhealthy food choices.People are eating the wrong foods that you should DEFINETLY not be eating.Seeds from 100's of years ago are being planted.They are known as heritage seeds.These seeds are the lastlink to tradtional plants that have almost died out.These thngs such as diabtetese and food problems can really happen to anyone.So make sure to chose something healthy or you will end up like 1 of these Native Amercan.
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Arlon
3/12/2015 10:01:10 am
I agree with you Leilah because some are getting very fat these days and it is also because of people not eating the right food.
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jay
3/12/2015 10:36:07 am
I agree with you Leilah because natives are getting fat and they can die like most people do because they eat junk food its junk food because it is fried.
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Justine
3/12/2015 11:03:24 am
I agree with you because there are overweight people in the world that aren't Native American.
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Aidan
3/12/2015 12:25:52 pm
I agree with you Ben because What if the Indians get diabetes or another sickness and don't know how to take care of it. I have never been to the U pick farm. Is it good?
Sasha's the birthday girl 10 today
3/12/2015 01:41:52 pm
I agree with you leilah because not only native Americans are getting bigger the whoLe world is.
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Benicio Curiel
3/12/2015 09:22:43 am
I can make a text to self connection. Farms like Little Earth are planting and picking native plants. I like to go to the U-Pick farms where you can pick fruit your self. I think that just because the Native Americans are overweight they can still get back to their normal diet. It can be tough because giving up food that you really like can hard, but you have to get back to your diet because the Native Americans can get diseases like the example in the article:Diabetes. My text to self connection is pretty much the same thing as the people at farms growing the Native plants. I think that the decolonized diet is working gradually!
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Connie
3/12/2015 10:47:56 am
Sometimes, it is hard to get rid of a kind of food a person likes. Though, in order to be healthy and have a good diet, the person soon will need to stop eating that kind of food, or he/she will be very ill and sick.
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Minerva
3/12/2015 11:06:07 am
Great response. I like your connection to the U-Pick farm.
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Ashley Kim
3/12/2015 11:25:27 am
I agree with you Ben because if the Native Americans eat too much familiar food, they might get diabetes just like the article said. Or maybe another illness.
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Cara
3/12/2015 01:47:17 pm
I agree. Some foods are really tough to stop eating. You should try other foods. It might help
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alex
3/21/2015 07:16:47 am
I completly agree with you Ben. I do not go to U pick farms a lot but I pick fruit that is healthy but I like too.I can also make a connection to the pocket park Sarah harris is doing we just need a small strip of land to grow things
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Arlon
3/12/2015 09:59:32 am
I can make a text to world part in the paragraph "Familiar Foods Are Hard To Give Up"Around the end it says"Some Indians have said she's "anti-Indian" for speaking out against fry bread,".It actually reminds me of how america in I think the 1900's were speaking out against people with black skin.That is all I could actually find for now but I'll write more next newsela writing.
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Jay
3/12/2015 10:33:46 am
I can make a text to self because my uncle was a soilder he said after the war he fought in many soilders died by sicknesses.Some got really fat like the Natives did.A text to text connection can be that a lot of people are trying to get Native plants back and discovering what the Natives ate so they can plant plants to get the food. My text to world connection is that Devon said she hates Native people eating fry bread. People say that the Fry bread is from the Natives but it is not.They call Devon non-native.I think everything that is fried is junk food like fried chicken so I think that's why people get diabetes.I think that Devon is correct that fry chicken is unhealthy.
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Gael is replying to Jay
3/12/2015 01:00:26 pm
Jay i agree when you say that Devon is against fried bread and how you say that every thing fried is junk food because when it is fried grease comes and grease is fat.
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jacob
3/12/2015 11:18:26 pm
i agree fry bread is popular but not a traditional food for the native Americans. And yeah people get diabetes because much junk food they eat. And i think you are right about every fried things is a junk food because fried chicken and friend bread make you fat.
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Jorden Tiritilli
3/12/2015 10:34:14 am
A text to the world is that the Native Americans are getting more unhealthy.The Natives should be allowed to eat there normal foods.In Native gatherings fried bread is a traditional snack but is not what they used to eat.I know Familiar foods are hard to give up& I think it's good for the natives to go back to there normal life and should.Farms like Little Earth can grow a lot even if they are small.In my opinion in all we should let them go back to normal foods and on the back of a indian named Mihesauh car had a bumper sticker on the back of the car speaking out against the "fried bread". They called here anti-indian.
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Gael is replying to Jorden Tiriritilli
3/12/2015 12:57:18 pm
Jorden I agree when you say the main idea is that Idians are getting fatter
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Connie
3/12/2015 10:39:38 am
I can make a self to world connection. In the passage, the author wrote, "Health problems among native people have become very serious, she said." That shows that the native people's health problems are very bad and unhealthy. In the world, sick or ill people have these health problems, just like the Native people. So it's not just Native Americans that are ill and unhealthy, people around the world could be, too. Also, in the text, it was written, "She thinks heritage crops are the foods Native Americans are meant to eat." The heritage crops are traditional food to the Native people. Another self to self connection is that each year, my grandmother makes/cooks these little sticky rice balls in soup for the family to eat. She only does this a few couple of times during a year.
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Ashley Kim
3/12/2015 11:22:46 am
I agree with you Connie because you have to mostly eat healthy stuff not fried and unhealthy stuff. It's a good she makes the sticky rice balls in soup couple of times during a year because it might be unhealthy.
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Celeste
3/12/2015 10:43:30 am
I think that if the decolonized diet is healthier for the natives than they should give it a try. Everyone wants to be heathy, right? ( rhetorical question). I can make a text to self connection, my parents are always (fine maybe not always but usually) telling me to try new foods. Most of them I like, such as pig food (do NOT ask) but others I don't like, such as borsht (once again, do NOT ask, fine you asked, it's a Russian beet soup that I don't like).
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Justine
3/12/2015 11:01:09 am
I can make a text-to-self connection because the people in the article were learning about native plants that are almost gone. In class, we had to choose a native plant to draw and I barely knew what any of them were. I think that we should be more focused on the native plants that are dying out because no one cares about them anymore. The plants produce things that we need, like seeds, fruits,and vegetables.
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Sarah:)
3/12/2015 11:57:45 am
I agree when you said," we can make a self connection because the people in the article were learning about native plants that are almost gone. In class, we had to choose a native plant to draw and I barely knew what any of them were." I didn't know any of those plants also! :)
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Minerva
3/12/2015 11:04:49 am
I think I can make a text-to-self connection because my grandmother and her two sisters are Native American. My grandmother is the only one out of her two sisters, her mother, her father, and her brother that does not have diabetes. This is because, like the article says,"Native Americans are much more likely than non-Indians to suffer from the disease diabetes. Many are seriously overweight. Both problems are often connected to what people eat." Also, as my mom told me, the "European" cuisine brought here, now known as "American" is processed grains. The Natives are used to having their pancreas process these grains. It's the way that their genes work. This processed food makes their stomachs very confused.
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charlotte
3/12/2015 01:29:34 pm
I agree Minerva. In the Native's environment, they were so used to their own foods but now everything is processed, and different from what they are used to.
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Ashley Kim
3/12/2015 11:17:05 am
I think the article is talking about how the Indians don't eat after the colonists arrived. Even though I eat almost everything I've never tried before I just eat it. But in this I can see that the Indians don't want to give up on familiar food. For example, fried bread. Which is the what we eat. In the article it said that the Indians can get diabetes when they eat too much of our food. They need to get back on track on eating their own food. I can connect to the article because my brother doesn't eat hardly any food. He just smells the food he has never tried and just doesn't eats it. I'm like my dad because I try all types of food. But my brother never tries. He just smells it and doesn't even try it and say it doesn't taste good.
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alex
3/21/2015 07:09:03 am
I agree with you actually and beleive it or not my brother does the exact seme thing as your brother though he is only 4. He wont eat or even taste most food. And then one day he will finally try it and like it!!!!!!!!
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Sarah:)
3/12/2015 11:51:39 am
I can make a self to text connection. The article said," Native Americans are much more likely than non-Indians to suffer from the disease diabetes." Many people on my dad's side of the family have diabetes. I know what it is like because my grandma always had to eat right, but sometimes it was hard for her. I can imagine how hard it would be for the Native Americans to change their diet from fried dough to eat a traditional Native American diet. Some of the kinds of foods that the Native Americans will eat are Oneida cornstalks special raspberries. Some evidence from the text is," Rows of Oneida cornstalks tower 6 feet in the air. Special raspberries cover a small patch." :)
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Sasha is 10 years old
3/12/2015 01:39:34 pm
I agree with you because now that they can do whatever they want such as get obeisity
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Jaya M. Chuan
3/12/2015 12:00:29 pm
I think that I can make a text-to-world connection. In the article it says "Health problems among the Native people have become very serious." I can make a text-to-world connection because it is not just the Natives that are becoming fat but it is also us. Now there is so much junk food that we cannot resist eating. Junk food is yummy, but it is not healthy. If you eat too much junk food yo will become fat and that is not a good thing. Now that the Natives are here, the have to eat that food. Now that they are all here they are basically throwing all of their usual diet away. None of us want to be unhealthy, it is just the delicious food we are eating. Since there used to be no fast food places or unhealthy junk they gardened,. Gardening takes longer but is is worth the wait. Gardening is very healthy and your body will thank you too. But now fast food and all that stuff has kicked gardening to the curb. Too much of a good thing is bad. Although people that want to be healthy choose to stick with gardening. No, this rant about junk food is to tell you to never eat it again, all I'm saying is too much junk food id bad for you. Because of us the Natives are also now becoming fat. :-(
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Sarah:)
3/12/2015 12:05:25 pm
I agree when you said," I can make a text-to-world connection because it is not just the Natives that are becoming fat but it is also us. Now there is so much junk food that we cannot resist eating. Junk food is yummy, but it is not healthy." It is yummy, but it is not healthy at all. :(
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Cara
3/12/2015 01:45:51 pm
I agree. I love junk food but my parents don't buy me it too often. It ends up getting me sick.
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Aidan
3/12/2015 12:22:42 pm
I think that the article is trying to tell us is that Indians Don't take care to themselves. I have eaten a lot of foods and most of them I like. I do NOT LIKE SEAFOOD, and in some cases I think I know why Indians don't want to eat their Native food I think it is because they are not used to it anymore. The Indians are just eating foods that that the government gives them. They need to go back to the way they ate before because they are getting to fat. Natives are actually supposed to be strong and active not FATTY.I can connect to the article because yesterday for dinner we went to a restaurant and my brother usually eats more then he does at this restaurant. He LOVES this restaurant and I was sort of confused.
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nola
3/12/2015 02:03:15 pm
I like your response but why did you say that you don't like seafood in caps. Also it would be better if you wrote your connection first.
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Gael
3/12/2015 12:53:09 pm
I think the main idea for the article is that people are coming up with a new way to get native plants back and some natives are getting Diabetes
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nola
3/12/2015 02:00:48 pm
I agree with you Gael that it is hard to give up eating habits but oranges are healthy and so are apples. And I see you running around the yard all the time so you are pretty healthy. Besides I thought that you should have told your connection in the first couple sentences and then talked about the other things that you were talking about. Besides that great connection and response.
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charlotte
3/12/2015 01:23:07 pm
I can make a text to self connection, because there are some foods that I've tried that my stomach did not like. It's important that you eat the right foods so that you stay strong and healthy. Some people are allergic to some things, and others just shouldn't eat something because their bodies aren't used to it. I think that after a while a lot of the foods that the Native Americans had adapted to had died off, and they started eating things that they were not used to, that aren't healthy for them. In the text, it says, "Lori Watso thinks heritage crops are the foods that Native Americans are meant to eat. Such foods kept the Native Americans strong and healthy, she said. I believe our bodies recognize these things." I agree with what Lori Watso is saying. Our bodies choose what we should and should not eat, and especially for the Native Americans, who had a specific type of environment with certain foods, should stay healthy by eating the foods that their bodies are most fond of.
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Gavin
3/12/2015 01:25:51 pm
I think the article was about people coming up with new ways to get native plants back but some Native Americans get diabetes because of the native plants so I don't think it will be a good idea to bring the native plants back.Some people are saying that they cannot give up the plant because of the taste and if you try it once you will get addicted to it and you will never stop eating it.If I were one of the people eating it I would stop because the plant is very bad for your skin and this plant can cause cancer.If it were just me and I had a choice to eat it,or naw ,I would not eat it at all because I wouldn't wan't to die.I can make a text to word connection because I used to love mini wheats but when I gave them up and started eating chocolate I can never stop eating it and whenever I go to the store I aim for chocolate.I say that people that are eating this type of plant,they should stop because they will get cancer or maybe some type of sickness even worse.When I grow up,I will never eat or try any bad foods...EVER!!!
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charlotte
3/12/2015 01:56:37 pm
I don't agree with you because the Native Americans do not get diabetes because of eating the Native Plants. In fact the Native Plants are what make them healthy. The Native Americans diet is used to eating the foods that they adapted to, but now, those plants are dying off, so now the the Natives are trying to adjust to the processed foods that we have now, but they just can't. It's unhealthy for them. Getting the Native Plants would be really good for them.
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Sasha
3/12/2015 01:37:52 pm
I think I can make a text to self connection to "Diabetes didn't start until the civil war. The native Americans lived many centuries ago and at that time they had there own types and kinds of food. Such as acorn mush. Since now the native americans are not such a big group of people as they were before many people so many people had left the native tribe to experience the modern arts and technologies. Many native Americans didn't eat that much when they were with their tribe however now days the Indians are livin the american style of eating a lot of unhealthy foods and many sweets. Which causes them to get type 1 diabetecs.- birthday girl -Sasha is 10
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Cara
3/12/2015 01:44:38 pm
In this article it talks about Native people getting overweight. I don't think fried bread is a really good food to eat. It has lots of oil and fat. I can make a connection because I really like junk food like chips, candy, soda, etc. I really like eating it and I find it really hard to stop. But if I eat to much, I basically end up getting sick. Eating junk food one in a while is not bad, but just don't eat it to often. I know that some foods are hard for someone to stop eating it.
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nola
3/12/2015 01:49:43 pm
I can make a text-to-self connection with the article. My connection is that my Grandpa Robert was obese. He would eat A LOT and he wouldn't get exercise. It was shocking that he never got diabetes. He would eat all day. He was UNHEALTHY, he would eat junk food, healthy food to but still never get exercise. It can still be not very healthy evan if you are eating healthy food compared to unhealthy food. I think that people are getting over weighted because of all the junk food in the world. It is addicting so once you have it, it is hard to stop. "Diabetes 'didn’t start showing up until after the Civil War,' she said. 'Up until that time there weren’t any pictures of (Indian) people being fat.'" I agree with this part of the article. It is a little similar to what I was saying before that part of the article. I had been saying that the natives had not been as over weight as they had been since all of the junk food came along. The part from the article said that up until diabetes there weren't any pictures of natives being fat. My grandpa that I had been talking about, well he had past away before I was born since he ate to much and was so unhealthy. I also think that people should watch there weight because if you don't get exercise then you could get sick or die. One last thing that I find happens A LOT is that kids have made fun of other kids for being fat. I think that this is wrong, if anyone reading this is someone who bullies, than you think about what your saying next time or think about how you would react if someone said that to you. One LAST thing if I catch someone bulling someone else for over weight and knows it than WATH OUT!!!!!!!!!
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jacob
3/12/2015 01:58:50 pm
this article talks about the native getting overweight. And the native american food is growing. I can prove it to you in the text it said "The return to traditional Native American food has been growing, she said." And they eat fried bread popular in native american but then it is not a traditional food for the native Americans. I can prove it to you " There are Indians who do not want to give up familiar foods. Fry bread is popular at Indian gatherings. The fluffy, fried dough is not a traditional Indian food, Mihesuah said. She has a bumper sticker on her car with a red line crossing out the words “fry bread.” Some Indians have said she's “anti-Indian” for speaking out against fry bread, she said. And it is junk food and junk food is not healthy for anyone in the world.
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violet -_-
3/12/2015 02:21:32 pm
I think that i can make a text to self connections to the part when the article talk's about how Native Americans are becoming fat and are trying to eat more of the heritage foods . The connection i can make is that the Native American tribe that i am in is always trying to get all of the tribe together for a picnic of heritage foods a lot of different foods are set on the table for us all to have a feast .This years will be in the late summer . We even watch and play different Cayugan games. But going back to the subject , we eat things such as the soup i made for the class for the heritage project in Mrs.Millers room . But like some Native Americans i have been eating other foods . Because of the foods that have grease and trans fat we Natives are getting chunky , and because the Native Americans couldn't stand that much sugar they got diabetes. just like how when Karana from the Island of the Blue Dolphins got a sickness she wasn't used to and died . But these are modern Natives not Natives from the Rancho period . Still even Natives now are acting like they would if it still was the Rancho period and before that .
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alex
3/21/2015 07:03:24 am
I think I can make a text to world connection with this article. One of my friends family of making sweet tangerine juice from a tangerine every week. And I am telling you it was delicous.But somehow got out of that family tradition. Then pretty soon they did not make it at all. I missed the wonderful and extrodinary taste of the juice One day the mother, Mellissa brought up the subject of the tangerine juice. And just like that BOOOOOM the started making it again, Yep every week.
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