Senior Spotlight: Isabela Ramirez
Indiahoma High School senior Isabela Ramirez plays volleyball but has played basketball throughout her high school career. She is also a part of Native American Club.
“It started my freshman year, and I was their first senior princess, and then I was part of FCCLA, but I'm also a part of I am Indian, which is a 9-8-8 kind of thing, and I'm the female co-president,” Ramirez said.
She has been keeping up with her grades.
“Something that I do take pride in is always keeping my grades up, no matter what, and I've always been in the National Honor Society, so I plan to keep that up,” Ramirez said.
In sports, she was MVP for her softball team and has received the Warrior Award since her freshman year.
“Definitely a lot, especially because of the stress of just getting ready for, I guess technically the adult life and getting ready for college and everything,” Ramirez said. “But I do try to stay on top of all of my work and just trying to live the rest of my high school years, school years in a good, kind manner and just hang out with friends a lot.”
She said Indiahoma is a small community.
“I'm definitely going to miss how close-knit we are,” Ramirez said. “We're all a huge community, and we always just support each other no matter what, and I'm definitely going to miss that.”
She plans on attending college nearby to stay with her family.
“I plan on going to the education field. I want to teach history, not just any history, but Native history, and I just want to be able to go out and teach about our culture, but also keep it alive, I guess, because it is kind of a dying kind of thing,” Ramirez said. “People do hear about it, but sometimes we feel like it's not there, and I already have some certification, so I do plan on working in college.”
She was in a teacher’s prep class and can be a substitute teacher or teacher’s aide out of high school.
Ramirez goes to powwows and was Comanche Nation Princess last year, and it brought her closer to teaching Native American history.
“I do still try to stay close-knit with my family and my culture, and I do highly encourage a lot of people just going out and learning about their tribe and to learn their language or hymns,” she said. “And I will admit I'm not the best at keeping on track on it, but I do just want people to know that we're still here and that it's kind of seeing it grow within the past couple of years has really helped encourage me into going into that field.”
Rameriez said her happy place is at powwows because everything outside of the powwow disappears. And dancing helps keep her stress away.
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