Archive for September, 2006

Corrido - Gregorio Cortez

September 26th, 2006

Gregorio Cortez is a badass. The different versions of the Corrido, although each are different and similar, they all show how afraid everyone was of Gregorio Cortez. They also have guns and have 200 some more people, but still they have trouble catching up to, and better yet killing/capturing Cortez. He can just taunt 200 […]

Ceremony

September 24th, 2006

The story/poem going on in ceremony, was just a short way of unclearly explaining what Tayo was going through. It wasn’t until Tayo finished the ceremony and was cured, that the rain came back in the mini story. (The buzzard purifying the land) It talks about mother Nau’ts’ity’i being very upset about Ma’see’wi and Ou’yu’ye’wi […]

Dreamlife of Letters

September 17th, 2006

I really liked this motion poem on the computer for a few reasons. It was different. I’ve never seen these types of poems ever before. It wasn’t slow, it kept moving quickly and I liked how it went A-Z in order so you could follow it a little bit better. Alot of members in class […]

Fairy Tales

September 12th, 2006

The fairy tales we had to read for class were unlike any that i’ve ever read before. First of all the sugarcoatedness is gone from the stories. Girls chopping off their big toe to fit into a shoe is a pretty drastic measure. Getting your eyes plucked out by birds sure teaches you a message, […]