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Spílygy Tymoo Pdge 5 December 7 Automotive Tribal member shares youth experience with COCC students However, she said, living as the only Native Americans in their town wasn’t always with out the exposure to prejudice. “We would hear things like, W ell, all you Indians just live o ff the government,”’ Quaid said. After her high school gradu ation, she said, she moved to Warm Springs—-but knew that she would always pursue higher education. In high school, she told the crowd, her teachers challenged her to take difficult classes and to succeed. “Fortunately I had a lot o f teachers who really just saw me as a person,” Quaid said. “They saw that I had some potential.” While her teachers encour aged her to go to college, Quaid said it was also something that was encouraged by her parents. Quaid went on to complete a year at Mt. Hood Community College. After that, she returned to Warm Springs and got mar ried at the age o f 19, she said. For two years Quaid worked at the local grocery store, but knew she would eventually re turn to school— especially after the owners o f the store encour aged her to move on. “You grow up a little bit out in the real world,” Quaid said. “You realize you’re not going to bag groceries the rest o f your life.” A fter she tran sferred to Lewis and Clark College and earned her bachelor’s degree, Q uaid also com pleted her master’s degree. H er understanding o f the need to belong to a community led her to work with those in volved with Early Childhood Education. According to Quaid, “The most important thing to me was to create a sense o f belonging for every child that was in our B y L e s lie M itts Spilyay Tymoo Pizza and slumber parties used to be foreign to Ju lie Kalama Quaid. W hen her fam ily m oved from Warm Springs to Sandy, Quaid was 12 years old. She soon found out that she and her siblings were the only Indian students at her school— something that led to a struggle to belong and the acceptance o f values and beliefs that Quaid carried throughout her life. She shared those beliefs with a crowd o f students at Central Oregon Community College on Nov. 29. Quaid shared her personal mantra with the students: “Be lieve, belong, become.” For Quaid, the process o f belonging and believing started early on while living on the res ervation. Growing up, Quaid said, “We had this great sense o f belong ing.” “To me it was a way o f learn ing how to cope in both worlds,” Quaid* explained. B u t her m ove to Sandy wasn’t without its difficulties. According to Quaid, “Jump ing into that whole other kind o f culture, that Americana, was very difficult.” It took time, she said, but she eventually learned about things like pizza and slumber parties. In Quaid’s opinion, “It’s al most like living in two whole different worlds.” Quaid also spoke o f the dif ference between societies relat ing to tribalism versus individu alism. She found the difference as she lived in Sandy during the school year and visited Warm Springs during the summer, she said— something that led to her understanding o f both cultures. 24- Hour Towing 24- Hour a day road service center.” It was especially important, she said, in order to teach the children that they could be loved. “To me that’s really what it was— to really love these chil dren unconditionally,” she said. Quaid also spoke o f a project with adults, where the adults were asked to take a piece o f paper and draw their dream. Some adults were unable to complete the task, she said. “I think that’s just a tough concept for people who feel they’ve been oppressed for so long,” Quaid explained. “They don’t believe they have a dream.” Quaid spoke to the crowd about these experiences, and ex plained that the sense o f be longing is what leads to the abil ity to believe and the ability o f a person to become what they want to be. Quaid also spoke o f a recent effort to get Warm Springs com munity members to vote— a project that led to a turnout o f 44 percent o f voters. “It really got the attention of people,” she said. “To me it was like the ultimate belonging ex perience.” Quaid believes that the high amount o f voters helped to af fect some o f the recently politi cal decisions. As a community, she said, “We can make a change.” Quaid has spoken at COCC twice before: she was a featured speaker during the Oregon D i versity Institute and also a dis cussion leader during a staff retreat. 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