About Me

My name is Acea Stops and I am from Crow Agency, Montana. I am, for the most part, a Native American of the Crow Tribe. Of all the things that I love, I love my family the most, they mean a great deal to me. It would upset me if any members of my family came upon any bit of bad luck or were the least bit fortunate in any situation. I love being social and also having a lot of laughs. What intrigues me the most in life is the fact that others’ upbringing is in most cases far different from my own, and what I mean by this is that I grew up in a Native American community, with all the ambitions to get out in the world and succeed; whereas most people back home only wish to stay there because of some odd sense of safety or fear of the outside world. What is also very intriguing to me is that I now have the opportunity to get out and experience a wide variety of things, and most people don’t have the chance or else don’t choose to. I am very passionate in being true to myself. I am very proud of who I am, where I come from, what interests me and what I have in store. I love the fact that I am here in Missoula and I know that this is where I ought to be. What made me decide to choose this specific college is the fact that both my parents attended here right out of high school, as well as my favorite high school teacher and a few of my peers that are older than me. I plan on using college to help me get to my goal career, which is becoming a math teacher and teaching the younger generations from my hometown.


I am actually quite excited for this writing course because at the moment I am not that great of a writer and I’m hoping to improve on being able to get my thoughts into structured sentences. At the beginning of high school I absolutely abhorred having to write at all, but by my junior year I built an interest in writing after my language arts teacher constantly brought up the idea of using writing to express myself. Although I would call myself an inexperienced writer as of right now, I plan on being far from that by the end of this semester.