I am Native American of the Colville Confederate Tribes who lives on a small reservation with a population of less than 500 people, with one gas station, two bars, a weed store, and a small K-12 school not even a mile away from those stores selling addictive substances. When I gain my degree in Criminal Justice, I will return to my small town as a cop, in order to help keep the drug and alcohol problems to stop from spreading. My goal is to one day work my may up to a high honored detective under the degree I chose by serving my reservation to help move it's way back to good instead of harmful. As I drive to different cities an places for the things I might need, I tend to notice the difference of care the earth is given compared to on my rez. Because of the drugs and alcohol, many have stopped caring to respect what we have been given by god, so there is beer cans a garbage in every ditch on every corner of our town. It is sad and disgusting. But as I drive to other places, it never looks that way. Their isn't beat up cars crashed into trees that stay there for months. There isn't beer and drug tool lying in ditches. Theirs not abandoned dogs running around getting into garbages. There is not house parties in the middle of the day. The reservation used to protect the land from the "whites" is now corrupted and less beautiful than the land across our river is that is owned by "whites". I am not saying all natives in my reservation are bad, nor are other races by any means, but from what I have seen from my own perspective in my home, a lot are in need of guidance and discipline in order to make our land the way it was intended for us as Native Americans to protect and to maintain is beauty. I tend to become a women of the law to help save our land and our reputation that it once was. We are beautiful, we should not look so ugly from the outside, and I believe I can help once graduated from the college I chose, with the help of scholarships to succeed in my future plans. As future generations come up, it will soon be my duty to lean them towards a better life that does not always have to involve such harmful substances that are so easy to get inside my small community. That is what I plan to do with my degree in order to help whoever needs it.

I am Native American of the Colville Confederate Tribes who lives on a small reservation with a population of less than 500 people, with one gas station, two bars, a weed store, and a small K-12 school not even a mile away from those stores selling addictive substances. When I gain my degree in Criminal Justice, I will return to my small town as a cop, in order to help keep the drug and alcohol problems to stop from spreading. My goal is to one day work my may up to a high honored detective under the degree I chose by serving my reservation to help move it's way back to good instead of harmful. As I drive to different cities an places for the things I might need, I tend to notice the difference of care the earth is given compared to on my rez. Because of the drugs and alcohol, many have stopped caring to respect what we have been given by god, so there is beer cans a garbage in every ditch on every corner of our town. It is sad and disgusting. But as I drive to other places, it never looks that way. Their isn't beat up cars crashed into trees that stay there for months. There isn't beer and drug tool lying in ditches. Theirs not abandoned dogs running around getting into garbages. There is not house parties in the middle of the day. The reservation used to protect the land from the "whites" is now corrupted and less beautiful than the land across our river is that is owned by "whites". I am not saying all natives in my reservation are bad, nor are other races by any means, but from what I have seen from my own perspective in my home, a lot are in need of guidance and discipline in order to make our land the way it was intended for us as Native Americans to protect and to maintain is beauty. I tend to become a women of the law to help save our land and our reputation that it once was. We are beautiful, we should not look so ugly from the outside, and I believe I can help once graduated from the college I chose, with the help of scholarships to succeed in my future plans. As future generations come up, it will soon be my duty to lean them towards a better life that does not always have to involve such harmful substances that are so easy to get inside my small community. That is what I plan to do with my degree in order to help whoever needs it.