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Scancarelli, Janine – Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1996
Stories of personal experience of supernatural events are a highly-valued form of verbal art for Cherokee speakers. Both the people who tell them and those who listen regard such stories as entertaining and instructional. These stories even reflect some of the tensions that exist between traditional Cherokee culture and modern American social…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, American Indians, Cherokee, Cultural Traits
Charlie, Teddy; Kari, James, Ed. – 1992
Six stories told by Teddy Charlie, an Alaska native, in the Lower Tanana Athabaskan language of Minto, Alaska are presented here and illustrated with maps and photographs. A foreword offers background information on the storyteller and the recording of the stories. The six stories include: "When Minto Village First Began"; "How We…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Athapascan Languages, Daily Living Skills, Folk Culture
Ng'andu, Joseph; Herbst, Anri – British Journal of Music Education, 2004
This article describes "inshimi"--a musical storytelling practice of the Bemba people in Zambia. It gives a general perspective on the whole practice and some details on the "MUSIC" as contained in the practice. The article further encourages the idea that "inshimi" represents a nucleus of the "MUSIC"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Music Appreciation, Music Education
Baraby, Anne-Marie – 2002
It took 25 years to develop and arrive at a consensus for a standard orthography for the language of the Innu, or Montagnais, who live in Quebec and Labrador. The principal obstacle to standardization came from dialect diversity. An effort at standardizing the spelling system in the 1970s failed because speakers were not ready to let go of the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Community Cooperation
2002
Fables and trickster tales are short narratives that use animal characters with human features to convey folk wisdom and to help people understand human nature and human behavior. These stories were originally passed down through oral tradition and written down later. The legendary figure Aesop was reported to have orally passed on his animal…
Descriptors: Animals, Class Activities, Curriculum Enrichment, Fables
New Stories and Broken Necks: Incorporating Native American Texts in the American Literature Survey.

LaLonde, Chris – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 1996
Describes an approach to mainstreaming Native American works into an American literature survey college course using the "Norton Anthology of American Literature." Goals are to situate Native American texts within the canon, accentuate their aesthetic qualities, address the fundamental questions they raise about literature and American…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Anthologies, Course Content

Wilson, Angela Cavender – American Indian Quarterly, 1996
Stories handed down from Dakota grandmother to granddaughter were rooted in a kinship responsibility to relay the culture, identity, and sense of belonging essential to a child's life. Conveyed by Native storytellers rigorously trained in oral tradition, historical "stories" have a reliability not found in mainstream oral history.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Cultural Maintenance, Family History

George, Ningwakwe Priscilla – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 2003
Aboriginal literacy programs in Canada are using literacy as a means of reclaiming Aboriginal languages and a positive cultural identity. The Rainbow/Holistic Approach to Aboriginal literacy uses seven ways of knowing, each corresponding to a color. The approach recognizes that spirit, heart, mind, and body equally contribute to a life of balance,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cognitive Style, Cultural Maintenance
Hart, Paul – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2002
Addresses the issue of quality within inquiry which uses narrative forms of representing human experience. Focuses on environmental education research. (Contains 101 references.) (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Epistemology, Foreign Countries
Niatum, Duane – Native Americas, 1995
As his family joins him at his grandfather's burial, the author muses on the direction and lessons he gained from his grandfather's stories. He recognizes the interconnectedness of his present-day life and goals with the teachings and influences of his ancestors, even those he did not personally know. (TD)
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indians, Cultural Images, Family Relationship
Sutton, Imre – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2006
This article seeks to present a continuing bibliography of research on Southern California Indians from the past 20 years, and sometimes beyond. The coverage reaches outside the variably defined bounds of Southern California so that it includes peripheral groups such as the Timbisha Shoshone of Death Valley and one or more groups in the Owens…
Descriptors: Films, Handicrafts, American Indian Languages, Literature
Barton, Keith C. – 1995
This paper reports on a year-long qualitative study of two elementary classrooms in a suburban community near Cincinnati (Ohio). The classes were very homogeneous racially with no students of Hispanic, African-American, Asian, or Pacific Island descent in either class. Interviews, classroom observations and participation, and analysis of student's…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cultural Interrelationships, Elementary Education, Oral Tradition
Ruth, Amy, Ed. – Goldfinch, 1995
This issue of "The Goldfinch" focuses on Iowa history. The booklet is divided into two sections. Section 1, "Features," contains the following: (1) "Looking for History"; (2) "Talking History"; (3) "Climbing the Family Tree"; (4) "Tribal Storytelling"; (5) "News About You"; (6)…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Elementary Education, Family History, Folk Culture
Brodie, James Michael; Curry, Barbara K. – 1996
This illustrated book introduces readers to African American literature by telling the story of the men and women who contributed to this body of work. The book begins by recounting the Africans' journey into slavery and how they kept their stories alive by telling them to one another, and by handing them down from generation to generation.…
Descriptors: Authors, Black Culture, Black Literature, Childrens Literature
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. – 1992
Developed as part of an educational kit that includes a four-part videotape, maps, photographs, and audio tapes, this guide gives teacher preparation information, objectives, teaching strategies, and student activities for each of 3 lessons in 4 units: Unit 1, "Introduction to Folklife," presents a definition in lesson 1, "What is…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Cultural Education, Dance, Folk Culture