American Indian English

Author : William Leap
Publisher : University of Utah Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781607811985

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American Indian English by William Leap Pdf

American Indian English documents and examines the diversity of English in American Indian speech communities. It presents a convincing case for the fundamental influence of ancestral American Indian languages and cultures on spoken and written expression in different Indian English codes. A distillation of over twenty years' research, this pioneering work explores the linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics of English language use among members of Navajo, Hopi, Mojave, Ute, Tsimshian, Kotzebue, Ponca, Pima, Lakota, Cheyenne, Laguna, Santa Ana, Isleta, Chilcotin, Seminole, Cherokee, and other American Indian tribes. American Indian English fills numerous gaps in existing studies of language histories, Indian student school experience, Indian-white contact, and "acculturation." Unlike contemporary studies on schooling, ethnicity, empowerment, and educational failure, American Indian English avoids postmodernist jargon and discourse strategies in favor of direct description and commentary. Data are derived from conditions of real-life experience faced by speakers of Indian English in various English-speaking settings. This practical focus enhances the book's accessibility to Indian educators and community-based teachers, as well as non-Indian academics.

Author : Katharina Reese
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783640764495

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American Indian English: Background and Development by Katharina Reese Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy Institut für Nordamerikastudien), course: Linguistic Varieties and Language Practices in the USA , language: English, abstract: When the first Europeans came to America, there existed more than 500 different Native American and Alaska Native languages. Through the contact with the English language and Euro-American cultures, the usage of indigenous languages started to decline. But it had an influence on the way Native Americans started speaking English.

Author : Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816521395

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Origin of the Earth and Moon by Shirley Silver,Robin M. Canup,Wick R. Miller,Kevin Righter Pdf

This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.

Author : Guillermo Bartelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015053477173

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Socio- and Stylolinguistic Perspectives on American Indian English Texts by Guillermo Bartelt Pdf

Part 1 of this volume interprets cultural meaning as revealed in prosodic and temporal phenomena in spoken English discourse data. The emerging theme is the (re)construction of American Indian tribal indentities in terms of a newly created intertribal consciousness in an urban setting. Part 2 introduces an ethnography of writing approach not only as a contribution to the intersection of linguistics and literature in general but as a valid approach to American Indian texts in particular.

Author : Jon Allan Reyhner
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806126744

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Teaching American Indian Students by Jon Allan Reyhner Pdf

Teaching American Indian Students is the most comprehensive resource book available for educators of American Indians. The promise of this book is that Indian students can improve their academic performance through educational approaches that do not force students to choose between the culture of their home and the culture of their school. This multidisciplinary volume summarizes the latest research on Indian education, provides practical suggestions for teachers, and offers a vast selection of resources available to teachers of Indian students. Included are chapters on bilingual and multicultural education; the history of U.S. Indian education; teacher-parent relationships; language and literacy development, with particular discussion of English as a second language and American Indian literature; and teaching in the content areas of social science, science, mathematics, and physical education.

Author : John Stoutenburgh
Publisher : Wings
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0517694166

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Dictionary of the American Indian by John Stoutenburgh Pdf

An alphabetical listing of basic information on the people, places, and ideas relevant to an understanding of Native American heritage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803217498

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American Indian Autobiography by Anonim Pdf

American Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow war party, speaks to us through a merchant from Bismarck, North Dakota. White Horse Eagle, an aged Osage, told his story to a Nazi historian. ø By discussing these remarkable narratives from a historical perspective, H. David Brumble III reveals how the various editors? assumptions and methods influenced the autobiographies as well as the autobiographers. Brumble also?and perhaps most importantly?describes the various oral autobiographical traditions of the Indians themselves, including those of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. American Indian Autobiography includes an extensive bibliography; this Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.

Author : Elijah Middlebrook Haines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : CORNELL:31924010309775

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The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) by Elijah Middlebrook Haines Pdf

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0394352386

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The American Indian by Roger L. Nichols Pdf

Essays on various aspects of the Native American Experience.

Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Division of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : English language
ISBN : MINN:31951P01007428Y

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English for American Indians - a Newsletter of the Office of Education Programs, Bureau of Indian Affairs by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Division of Education Pdf

Author : William Bright
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015011687483

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American Indian Linguistics and Literature by William Bright Pdf

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Author : Theda Perdue,Michael D. Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199746109

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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue,Michael D. Green Pdf

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Author : James F. Barnett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617032462

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Mississippi's American Indians by James F. Barnett Pdf

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi’s American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that led to this sweeping change in the diversity of the state’s native peoples. The book begins with a chapter on Mississippi’s approximately 12,000-year prehistory, from early hunter-gatherer societies through the powerful mound building civilizations encountered by the first European expeditions. With the coming of the Spanish, French, and English to the New World, native societies in the Mississippi region connected with the Atlantic market economy, a source for guns, blankets, and many other trade items. Europeans offered these trade materials in exchange for Indian slaves and deerskins, currencies that radically altered the relationships between tribal groups. Smallpox and other diseases followed along the trading paths. Colonial competition between the French and English helped to spark the Natchez rebellion, the Chickasaw-French wars, the Choctaw civil war, and a half-century of client warfare between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 forced Mississippi’s pro-French tribes to move west of the Mississippi River. The Diaspora included the Tunicas, Houmas, Pascagoulas, Biloxis, and a portion of the Choctaw confederacy. In the early nineteenth century, Mississippi’s remaining Choctaws and Chickasaws faced a series of treaties with the United States government that ended in destitution and removal. Despite the intense pressures of European invasion, the Mississippi tribes survived by adapting and contributing to their rapidly evolving world.

Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781616403041

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A Key Into the Language of America by Roger Williams Pdf

Written in 1643 at a time of great turmoil between Native Americans and the English settlers, A Key into the Language of America is a study of American Indian life, religion, and language. Written by an advocate of Native American rights and treatment, the book presents a number of ideas that seem anti-English and bring to light the prejudices held by the pilgrims. The book was the first study of Native American language written in English, and the commentary on Indian ways of life make it a worthwhile read. Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) was the founder of Rhode Island and an outspoken pioneer who fought for Native American rights in New England in the 17th century.

Author : Robert N. St. Clair,William Leap
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Education, Bilingual
ISBN : UCSD:31822000020313

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Language Renewal Among American Indian Tribes by Robert N. St. Clair,William Leap Pdf