Alisha Hardy Research Paper

Alisha Hardy Alisha Hardy, who also goes by Lisha, is an eighteen-year-old Choctaw Native American woman from Wright City, Oklahoma. She is a student at Murray State College in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where she is studying nursing. In high school Lisha was an honors student and played softball. She is a very active member in her tribe’s community and her role as young Choctaw woman is very important. She enjoys taking part in cultural activities and keeping her tribes customs and culture alive. During high school, Lisha worked very hard to excel in the classroom as well as on the field. She was the starting shortstop and helped lead her team to many district titles. She graduated at the top of her class as an honors student. Although she loved playing softball, she had other activities she enjoyed in her tribe that carried on out of high school. Since a young age, Lisha has enjoyed playing stickball. Stickball is the most popular sport in the Choctaw tribe. She loves getting to interact with many other young tribe members who have the same interest as her. Beside sports Lisha …show more content…
Lisha’s uncle introduced her to stickball and social dancing. Most importantly he explained to her the meaning of what it means to be the Choctaw people. “It is important to keep our culture alive, as it is slowly dying,” Lisha says. People of her tribe are slowly forgetting to teach their children the Choctaw language and what it means to be Choctaw. Lisha became the 2017 district Choctaw princess and now many young Choctaw girls look up to her. It is now a part of her responsibility to keep her culture alive. As the Choctaw princess she does volunteer work at the community center and reads to the children in her community. She now wants to spread the importance of her tribe to the younger generation of tribal members. Whether it be telling the children in her community or passing along her knowledge to her future