Reflection Paper: The Comity Agreement At The Undergraduate Symposium

This extra credit paper is on my Presentation of The Comity Agreement at The Undergraduate Symposium held at Rasmusen Hall, hosted by Maria Williams on November 18, 2016. Professor Maria Williams taught Alaska Native Perspectives A206 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm until 5:15 pm. She spoke of many subjects that pertain to the history of Alaska and the impacts of colonial contact. These impacts included: Segregation, Conversion to Christianity, Statehood in 1959, and Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, just to name a few. Then there was The Comity Agreement of 1874. As the semester went by, Professor Williams would remind the class to be thinking about a topic for the final presentation or that the other option was a ten page research paper. I knew I was not …show more content…
She had asked me at this time if I would present at The Undergraduate Symposium on November 18th. I told her I could do it but I would have to be presenting early as I had your class from 2:30 pm to 5:15 pm. She said she could accommodate for me because she believed I would do a good job at the Symposium. So we decided I would present first. As I was preparing for my presentation; Professor Williams stopped in at Native Student Services where I am a Student Mentor/Student Tutor then told the department that I was presenting. Since I am part of another project called Native Cultural Identity, my supervisor as well as Paul Wasko suggested that my presentation be video recorded by someone from Native Student Services. It turned out that Patience was the only person at the time to do that for me. So she did and I posted my presentation on Facebook. I did all the research myself at the library on campus. I found most of my sources which was cited on a Reference Page at the end of my presentation. I had made five trips to the library so I would have enough material to utilize in my