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Winning student essays on domestic violence
RLES Indians didn’t use violence in the olden days. It is bad. Indians only used violence for hunting and fishing. We can be non-violent by trying to make good choices. Sara Seki 1st Place Red Lake Elementary School RLES Long ago Indians didn’t use violence in their families. Violence was only used for war, hunting and fishing rights. Men, women and children were treated fairly. We learned violence from the Europeans. We can overcome violence by relearning the traditional ways of life. Abby Seki 2nd Place Red Lake Elementary School RLES Proud to be violence free. (A drawing of a hand was also on the paper.) Dayton Lussier 3rd Place Red Lake Elementary School My Poem: Domestic Violence Is Silence Silence is feeling hurt. Silence makes you sad. Silence makes you mad. Silence makes you want to do something bad. End domestic violence, silence. Derrick Defoe 1st Place St. Mary’s Mission School Domestic Violence Domestic violence is very hurtful. Men should never touch women. Women are getting beat very bad by men. Sometimes women beat men. Domestic violence should stop in our world. Our world should never be made with domestic violence. There are probably a lot of charges on men or women for domestic violence. Cheyenne Clark 2nd Place St. Mary’s Mission School Domestic Violence Violence is bad and when someone gets hurt it’s sad. When people are fighting it ain’t exciting. A lot of people drink and then they can’t think. Violence is disrespect. Breanna Sayers 3rd Place St. Mary’s Mission School Domestic Violence Domestic violence is no an Indian tradition. Women and children were respectfully treated fairly in the past. The women are givers of life. We lived all across the U.S. as different tribes across the land. When the Europeans migrated and came to our land we were put into boarding schools and were introduced to alcohol. Europeans took over the land. When we went to the boarding schools we were oppressed because we were ripped from our families and were forced to give up our ways of life. When we got out of the boarding schools we forgot our language and tradition. They taught us how to gain power and control by hitting, punching or kicking them when they got mad for different reasons. Instead of us in a big place, they placed us in little reservations scattered across the land. The man is supposed to walk in front of the woman and stand protector of his family instead of beating on them. The man is supposed to treat his family with respect, love, and care. We need to unlearn the patterns of violence we were taught. Michelle Mountain 1st Place Red Lake Middle School Domestic violence is not an Indian tradition People fighting puts fear in others’ hearts, but it hurts others to see domestic violence is bad. It puts fear in the mother and the child. The child sees this and also learns how to be violent to others. While the mother is getting beaten, it sometimes leads to death. It puts fear in the hearts of the people at home. Everyone should have a say, to speak freely and not to be afraid of what to say. Domestic violence should stop now Eliza Lussier 2nd Place Red Lake Middle School Domestic violence is not an Indian tradition Danger of death sometimes comes from fighting. Ordinary people shouldn’t hurt each other. Marriage is not about fighting. Every one should treat everyone as they do their mothers. Some day everyone will be fighting. That is why that should stop now. Illegal abuse to women should not happen. Can’t we stop this violence in the world? But how? Violence is a bad influence on children. I can see a better world in the future through dreams. Older people should think twice about violence. Life is for happiness and joy. End all violence so that no one is severely injuried. No one deserves to be hurt. Chances should be given to everyone. Even kids, adults, elders and infants should feel safe. Domestic violence should stop so women won’t have to hid, but the one that is nice, is that the community cares enough to have a Woman’s Shelter. Bianca Mendoza 3rd Place Red Lake Middle School Domestic Violence is not an Indian tradition When a Native feels low one day he or she could take their anger out on a family member in a very mean way. This doesn’t happen everyday. It happens when people have those feelings, that build up the bad. I believe that the people showing the violence needs someone to be there, to show them that someone cares. This reservation isn’t perfect, but still we get by. We live our lives day by day, because we’re strong, that’s why! I’d be very happy without violence in our Nation, but I know one thing’s for sure...Domestic Violence is not an Indian tradition. Emmy May 1st Place Red Lake High School Domestic Violence Do you want your kids to think Domestic violence is okay? Well not in our tradition; we were never brought up that way. Nobody likes to feel sad, Nobody likes to be mad. Domestic violence ain’t in our tradition. Respecting others is what I was taught. So when you’re thinking about hitting another person Please give it some extra thought. Never fall in love with someone who likes to hit. Think about your future. When he is throwing his little fits. Are you the type who would leave or stay? Are you the one who thinks he will quit and that it will be okay. Never trust a fighter. You will be better off with out him anyway. Dezirae Desjarlait 2nd Place Red Lake High School
Domestic Violence Domestic is nothing but nonsense. So why’ people wanna be domestic ‘cause it’s kinda optimistic when you put your family in that situation. Domestic violence is not the way our Nation should be. We all should be one, like our Native people were long ago. But when the drugs and alcohol came around, no Native people were around. They all would isolate themselves in houses, drinkin and drugin and being violent to each other over some stupid stuff. I think this domestic violence came around when our native peeps were on mood-altering drugs. A lot of stuff happened when the booze and drugs came around. A lot of Natives forgot their heritage and their history. This is not what our ancestors wanted us to be. Natives stopped going the Indian way, cause all the booze and drugs took a big effect on our Native people. Think if none of the stuff came around, we would all be happy and their would be no Shelters, Treatment Centers. So wake up Native American people and let’s all be one for our Nation. Jon Parkhurst 3rd Place Red Lake High School |