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Jochelson, Waldemar, Comp.; Bergsland, Knut, Ed.; Dirks, Moses L., Ed. – 1990
This collection of Aleut stories was originally collected by Russian ethnographer Waldemar Jochelson in 1909-10 in an attempt to preserve Aleut culture. An introductory chapter offers historical background, information about Aleut dialects and dialect groups, notes on the original fieldwork, and descriptive and technical information about the…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Eskimo Aleut Languages, Ethnography, Folk Culture
Bowman, Paddy; Zeitlin, Steve – 1993
This conference report argues that folk arts, which are transmitted informally by community word of mouth and example, represent the core culture of the community. Since a central goal for education is to prepare students to understand, live in, and contribute to their culture, the traditional folk arts represent valuable classroom resources. They…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Resources, Cultural Activities, Cultural Education
Hindman, Jane E. – 1993
In the Western Apache discourse community, landscape is not just the realm of nature in its sheer physicality. Neither are places in the landscape to be read as metaphors. Rather, places, visual things by reason of their identification with aspects of social hierarchy are literally giving moral messages, are imploring people to live right. This…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, American Indians, Cultural Context
Antone, Grafton; Turchetti, Lois Provost – 2002
Two Native people describe their respective journeys to healing, journeys that involved the rediscovery of language and culture. In Part I, "Healing the Tears of Yesterday by the Drum Today: The Oneida Language Is a Healing Medicine" (Grafton Antone), the first narrator taught the Oneida language to adult students at a community center.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Cultural Education, Cultural Maintenance
Malo, Eve; Bullard, Julie – 2000
Numerous studies have linked reading aloud to preschoolers and these children's later success as readers. But some of the parents with whom teachers work, whether they work at Head Start, childcare centers, or primary grades, have limited reading skills. However, the Hispanic, Native American, African American, Irish American, and many other…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Emergent Literacy
Discovery Communications, Inc., Bethesda, MD. – 2002
Based on cowboy poetry and songs, this lesson plan presents activities designed to help students understand that Old West cowboys produced a category of literature, people still write cowboy poetry, and cowboy poetry or songs have certain characteristics. The main activity in the lesson involves students in analyzing a classic of cowboy literature…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Language Arts, Lesson Plans
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Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth – WICAZO SA Review, 2000
The emergence of the Native voice in academia has provided much outstanding scholarship rising out of analysis of oral histories and textual authority of Native peoples. In the 1990s, however, attempts to discredit Native scholarship included the claim that "I, Rigoberta Menchu" was a willful fraud, debates over the Bering Strait theory…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, American Indians, Autobiographies, College Faculty
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Cheney, Jim – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2002
Proposes that one way to view storytelling in First Nations cultures is to look at the epistemology that informs it. Recommends that storytelling be central to environmental education, ethics, and practice. (Contains 19 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Epistemology
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Sterling, Shirley – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2002
A grandmother teaching fishtrap building by actually building one while telling a story provides a model and criteria for success in teaching Nlakapamux children, the most important criterion being the presence of cultural experts--grandmothers. Role-modeling, storytelling, and hands-on experience combine theory and practice and provide a mnemonic…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cultural Education, Educational Strategies
Kills Straight, Birgil – Native Americas, 2002
A member of the Oglala Lakota describes his traditional childhood; his boarding school education; and his career in the army, university, and tribal council during the American Indian Movement. In his 40s, he became aware of the spirits and changed his life. He tells the Lakota creation story and laws and advises future generations to carry the…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Boarding Schools, Nonformal Education
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Dillard, Cynthia B. – Initiatives, 1994
Sets forth three calls to education: (1) "Education begins when people are seeking to be whole"; (2) "Education must use memory and her/history as crucial sites of resistance"; (3) "Education must serve to name and to voice." Various strategies for educational change and social empowerment are given. (BF)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Attitude Change, Black Culture
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McMurdo, George – Journal of Information Science, 1995
This first in a series of essays on electric writing focuses on communication efforts of the preceding oral, written, and print cultures. Topics discussed include face-to-face versus distant communication; political power; correlations between social structure and access to information; information accumulation; costs; authorship; and the content…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communication (Thought Transfer), Correlation, Costs
Moulton, Kate – Akwe:kon Journal, 1994
Reviews 10 children's books, published or reissued 1988-93, about daily life, traditional culture, and schooling among Taos Pueblo, Zuni Pueblo, Navajo, Inuit, Guatemalan, and other Native peoples, as well as tales from Native American oral tradition, the life of a buffalo, and Cherokee and Athapascan historical fiction. Includes grade range and…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Book Reviews
Mellon, Constance A. – Educational Technology, 1999
Defines digital storytelling, the application of multimedia techniques to the telling of stories. Describes how digital-storytelling assignments, designed to use an online conferencing facility, were developed for a college class. Provides examples of students' approaches to the personal narrative assignment. Discusses how to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Course Content, Higher Education, Instructional Design
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Hollenweger, Walter J. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2004
Pentecostalism is the result of an interesting amalgamation of different traditions: black and oral cultures, middle-class and proletarian languages, catholic and evangelical spiritualities. These traditions are contextualized in Western, Latin American, Asian and African contexts which produce a bewildering pluralism. This "post-modern…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Oral Tradition, Blacks, Catholics
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