As the Navajo people chant, “Oh beauty before me, beauty behind me, beauty to the right of me, beauty to the left of me, beauty above me, beauty below me, I am on the Pollen Path. In the house of life I wander, On the pollen path.” (“Wandering the Navajo Pollen Path” 1). This chant is a Navajo Ritual, that is meant to remind the Navajo people that our journeys will have many starting points, stalling points, opportunities to develop, that people will be there to support us in our journey, until we are ready to emerge into the path and continue our journey. As a Navajo woman, who is Carmelita Graymountain and what is her journey like? Many close relatives and friends would say she has faced many hardships on her path. These hardships taught her to become even stronger and resilient than she was before. Furthermore, these …show more content…
Her Navajo Pollen Path of life began with her grandparents, parents, and siblings teaching their beliefs of their traditions, morals, and beliefs of being a Navajo woman, in the remote town of Old Sawmill, Arizona. Moreover, both of her grandfathers died off quicker than both of her grandmothers because of alcoholism, one of her grandmother was a recovered alcoholic and the other grandmother had never drank alcohol in her life. At a young age, Carmelita questioned why fate was so cruel to her family, her grandfathers and grandmothers suffered from alcoholism and financial instability. Additionally, her father being a Vietnam Veteran who used alcohol heavily in his military career to deal with PTSD, but eventually stopped after getting married to Carmelita’s mother, but became physically abusive. Carmelita’s mother, who was raised Catholic and never drank alcohol in her life, started drinking alcohol after marriage to cope with her fall-out marriage; she eventually divorced Carmelita’s father, abandon the family, and remarried another
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Strayed, throughout her experience of self discovery, had gone through many adversities and this experience has driven her to a state of pride instead of sorrow. She was able to overcome anything that was thrown at
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Next, telling her family was the hardest part. Rose’s mother disown her and was left by herself to care for a little child when she was still growing herself. She was sleeping outside for days before her grandparents save her and her unborn child. In spite of all this, my aunt never give up in life. My aunt taught me that life is not easy and be more flexible with change in your life
All challenges in her life that she has overcome help her to be better and teach
Her heart was made of gold and her mind was always open. She always mentioned that no matter how difficult the challenge, as long as you set your mind to it, it’s possible. God never gives us more than we can
Her resilience is to keep moving forward and to never look back at the obstacles. In her mind, there is no impossible there are only
The three-time United States Track and Field Olympic champion, Gail Devers once said, “Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.” In the non-fiction book Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, protagonist Louis Zamperini demonstrates his everlasting perseverance through his everyday actions. Like Devers believed, the resilient Zamperini refused to be defeated or demoralized and did everything in his power to keep his feet on the ground and his chin up.
She sings about the abuse from that she had to sustain from her father. Throughout the book and song, the message, “Stay strong despite all your struggles” truly resonates. It is an amazing accomplishment for someone to take such terrible
Nevertheless, in the hardest times Lutie faces, she continues moving forward in order to be
She attended the Wahpeton Indian Boarding School, and later went on to study at Dartmouth College and Johns Hopkins University (McCay, Deroche). She writes with themes of revenge, redemption, strength, parenting, and humor. She is a poet, novelist, and proud Native American and allows that to influence
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