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My name is Hershman John. I come from the Navajo reservation and I am currently going to Graduate school at Arizona State University. My writing reflects who I am and where I come from. I am Navajo, and I am from Sand Springs, Arizona. My clans are of the Deer Spring People (my Mother's clan) and the Bitter Water People (my Father's clan).
I currently am a teaching assistant at ASU and teach Freshman English Composition. Teaching has been a positive experience for me, as well as my students who I look to for knowledge and stories. Respect must be for everyone, and that's also what I teach as my students learn who I am and learn who they are.
We are all part of the same Storm Pattern Rug. -- Hershman John, 1998 |
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of the many stories that I tell them is the Diné Creation Story
and show how this poem is told in many different layers. It starts with
the worlds the Diné had to travel through to the present, the
Glittering World of "Now." The stories of many different holy ones are
told throughout the poem--such as First Man, First Woman, Coyote ...
and ultimately us.
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