{"id":44118,"date":"2025-06-21T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compilation-of-native-and-non-native-encounters-meet-the-elders-and-knowing-and-leaning-reflective-paper\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T22:22:53","slug":"compilation-of-native-and-non-native-encounters-meet-the-elders-and-knowing-and-leaning-reflective-paper","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/compilation-of-native-and-non-native-encounters-meet-the-elders-and-knowing-and-leaning-reflective-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Compilation of  &#8220;Native and Non-Native Encounters&#8221;, &#8220;Meet the Elders&#8221;, and &#8220;Knowing and Leaning&#8221;, Reflective Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Compilation of Critical Reflective Papers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Write a twelve-page, double-spaced reflection paper<\/li>\n<li><a> Compiling and editing the three reflection papers in the form of a final paper that engages key learning from the retreat, the assigned readings, and personal experience taking into consideration the learning outcomes listed below.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Course Key learning: <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1. Learn to respectfully engage the teachings of Indigenous elders and their spiritual practices. <\/p>\n<p>2. Reflect on learning experience at the Kendaasawin retreat and spiritual journey.<\/p>\n<p>A. I learned that there are some similarities between the Indigenous spiritual practice or ceremony and what we call voodoo practice, (e.g. praying facing the four directions in the beginning of a spiritual ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>B. When I think of tobacco, the fist thing that comes to mind is Cuban cigar. However, at the retreat I learned that tobacco is a sacred plant as a gift from God or Creator used for healing rituals and purification, ceremonial uses, and connecting to the ancestors.<\/p>\n<p>C. By far, the most significant part of the retreat was the Water Bundle ceremony in honor of water sacredness. The part where each of us incorporated a few pebbles representing the number of deceased loved ones was profoundly spiritual. I reflect a lot about my deceased loved ones, but I have never experienced such closeness. I felt like I was hugging them as we passed the bundle from one person to the next until we reached the riverbank. Water, indeed, is sacred and a life sustainer.<\/p>\n<p>3. Deepen understanding of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. <\/p>\n<p>4. Build a community of learning and reconciliation with other course participants.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Should include In-text citation<\/li>\n<li> Should include headings<\/li>\n<li> References<\/li>\n<li> No AI (Artificial Intelligence) work is accepted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compilation of Critical Reflective Papers Write a twelve-page, double-spaced reflection paper Compiling and editing the three reflection papers in the form of a final paper that engages key learning from the retreat, the assigned readings, and personal experience taking into consideration the learning outcomes listed below. Course Key learning: 1. Learn to respectfully engage the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[11],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/44118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/44118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=44118"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=44118"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=44118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}