A Brief Story About Life, Living and Death

Our school was not very modern and it was quite isolated. I walked to and from school using worn trails; trails with many years of history.  My ancestors used these paths for hunting and sometimes as escapes to avoid the “outsiders.” They did no   Our school was not very modern and it was quite isolated. I walked to and from school using worn trails; trails with many years of history.  My ancestors used these paths for hunting and sometimes as escapes to avoid the “outsiders.” They did not have schools; their learning came from experience, not books.  I had been indifferent about this “new” approach to learning but I slowly began to realize that this approach might offer me a better life than my parents ever had. “Maybe,” I thought, “book learning would help me leave the Reservation for a “better” life,” even if I did not know what a “better” life meant. t have schools; their learning came from experience, not books.  I had been indifferent about this “new” approach to learning but I slowly began to realize that this approach might offer me a better life than my parents ever had. “Maybe,” I thought, “book learning would help me leave the Reservation for a “better” life,” even if I did not know what a “better” life meant.