Open Entry:

For this journal entry I wanted to discuss more about my capstone project and the progress that I have made. I have decided to that I would like to focus on my final project and essay that was written for my Indigenous Film and Literature course. I took this class purely because I liked English classes and at the time it sounded interesting. I had not yet declared an english minor and this was the first english course I had taken at UNE, aside from English composition. I remember that the class seemed very daunting because it was with some upper class-men and I felt like I should not be taking it. However I stuck with it and it turned out to be one of my most memorable and enjoyable humanities classes. 

This course had 3 assigned texts in addition to other smaller works. With these we had various essay assignments and a semester long project that allowed us to connect these works together to analyze a specific topic. One of the writing prompts for our final essay was titled “How to be a Good Ancestors by Educating our Children”. I would like to use what I have written in this essay in addition to my research project that utilizes the Maine Women’s Writer Collection and more specific the Donna M. Loring archives. I want to create a resource that depicts the need for respecting the importance of maintaining Indigenous peoples culture and traditions through film and literature and how this can be actively done on by non-native peoples. This might be in the form of an e-portfolio site where students could access and it could contain educational resources on this subject. Native American tribes in particular as a group that was been marginalized for hundreds of years would be very interesting to focus on solely. This has been included in past courses including IF+L, but being able to focus on a main idea or question of “why should be respect and remember Indigenous people’s voices?” is very intriguing to me. I have contacted Professor McHugh and hopefully she will be able to assist me in creating a unique and encompassing capstone project of my revisited assignment in her course.