Week 1, Introduction
Greetings and Salutations!
My name is LaDawn Beckman and I am excited to be taking this Indian Epics class. I found out about this class last semester when I took the Mythology and Folklore class. My Spring classes are going to be all writing intensive, but it will all be worth it. My Spring and Summer breaks are already calling to me!
I am from Camp Verde, Arizona, a tiny little town North of Phoenix and South of Flagstaff. It became a town after being a military fort back in the days of the cowboys and Indians. When it was a fort in the wild west back in the 1800's they named it Camp Verde because the valley was green and lush, people died of Malaria then because of it. Now it is more like shades of brown because of the changing weather patterns and also the dwindling water tables of rivers and lakes due to modernization. Camp Verde is also where you will find the state parks of Montezuma's Castle and Montezuma's Well. Interesting historical Native American sites to visit.
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| This is my husband Barrett, me and my daughter Maya at the Butterfly House in Missouri Summer 2015. |
My name is LaDawn Beckman and I am excited to be taking this Indian Epics class. I found out about this class last semester when I took the Mythology and Folklore class. My Spring classes are going to be all writing intensive, but it will all be worth it. My Spring and Summer breaks are already calling to me!
Camp Verde Arizona
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| Montezuma's Castle |
I am currently in my second year here at the University of Oklahoma. I am a Religious Studies major with a minor in History. I graduated from Oklahoma City Community College where I got an Associate of Arts degree in Psychology and almost had an Associates of Applied Science in Business Management but I am one class short of that degree because I didn't want to take finance. I found out that I really don't like business, or accounting. I decided to follow my passions.I am now technically in my senior year here at OU. I look forward to graduating in December of 2016.
I love to read, write, travel, garden, bake all kinds of foods, and lounge around in my pajamas. My friends and family live all over the United States. I am lucky enough to have a sister who lives here in Norman and also goes to OU. Considering we are 15 years apart in age, this is a neat experience for us! I hope we all have a great semester and have fun learning new things. I look forward to reading all the interesting things that people will be posting!
