I was hired on as a mentor for the WE Search program and learned we would be teaching them how to make digital stories. Thought it was cool until I learned that in order for me to teach them I must make one myself!
So based this digital story off a poem I wrote. It is about an uncle that died in an Indian Boarding School. I didn't know about this until my first year in college. I wanted to write a whole report on it but was told to change my topic by my Auntie. So I wrote this poem instead. That was in 2002. In 2008 I came back to that poem and asked family if it was okay to share this story. This time they said yes. I currently assisting on a boarding school documentary and this story will be a part of that documentary.
Since then I have taught digital story making to high school students and librarians. I love teaching this process.
University of Arizona Knowledge River program
sharing your story
Hi Annie, Your story is very compelling and I agree needs to be told and heard. I work with American Indian and Alaska Native peoples in cancer education research and will be presenting at a meeting in 2 weeks and was wondering if I could share your story. I want this message to be heard by so many more people. You can email me at mcueva@anmc.org. perhaps we could visit about this possibility. melany
Annie, I'm so glad you are
Annie, I'm so glad you are sharing your story with the world. I never got to see the finished product, so I was excited to see it here. I finally got the opportunity to cry.
Annie thank you for telling
Annie thank you for telling this story. As minorities we sometimes just want to forget our past,but it is important that our children understand where we've been. The images in your video remind me of the scattered pictures I have sitting at the bottom of my drawer. I am latino and grew up in the seventies. I remember traveling north in summer, to work in the fields. I remember the back breaking sun-up to sun-down work cleaning beets in Colorado. When my children need an author or historical figure I always suggest they look someone with the same ethnicity so they can learn about their own culture.