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Comprehensible Input

want students to learn accurate language. Communication needs to be grammatically correct with proper syntax and so on (Kagan, 199...

English as a Second Language Preschoolers

learning to read English as well. Between reading books at home and book in the classroom, children picked up a significant amou...

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Bias in the Use of the Death Penalty?

of course, is the product of such a home. Marger (4), however, contends that such characteristics "have produced survival strateg...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Mabo and Others V. Queensland (No. 2) [1992] HCA 23

of the jurisdiction of the courts with the passing of the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act in 1985. This act made a declar...

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

“Major Problems in California History”

effort in categorizing the tribes that populated the area and speculating as to their origin. He observed their subsistence patte...

Benedicte Marie Wrensted’s Photographs of Native Americans

inaccuracies which are depicted. The time bracketing the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first years of the t...

Reintroduction of the Gray Wolf

its westward expansion, the U.S. Biological Survey "declared the extermination of the wolf as the paramount objective of the gover...

Franklin, Emerson and Whitman

means, in turn, there "are no Prisons, no Officers to compel Obedience, or inflict Punishment. Hence they generally study Oratory,...

The Bennett Scale and Milton Gordon on Assimilation and Native Populations

culture as a living culture by placing the Native American in a kind of cultural "museum." Momaday wrote: "...[the Native Americ...

Native American Influences on Modern American Culture

also being reflected in modern culture with the search for a spiritual connection with the earth, which is a value being adopted a...

Columbus, Hero or Villain?

doing so, Boorstin puts this within the context of the historical era. For example, he explains that fifteenth century sailors sta...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Native Americans: The Four Directions

the directions and how they connect with the directions on a compass, there is North which can, according to the author quoted thu...

Compliment Responses of Native Turkish ELT Students and Non-Native Turkish ELT Students: A Review of Literature

link between ethnography and the development of linguistic skills. Because communications occur within social contexts and are de...

Variations in European and Native American Interactions

The Dutch relatively quickly fell out of the colonization picture when they vied with England for their holdings. The English, in...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

The Role of First Language in Second Language Acquisition

expected and takes places as part of the usual culture, as seen in areas such as Mallorca, where the dialect may be seen as very s...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

“Task-Related Variation in Interlanguage: The Case of Articles”

by Tarone hypothesized, three different levels of English accuracy occurred when these situations were compared and contrasted. I...

The Role Of The First Language In The Acquisition Of A Second Language

There are a number of theories that have been developed when considering second language acquisition, especially in the context of...

Summary of “Listening in the Native and Second/Foreign Language: Toward an Integration of Research”

human understanding, theorists such as Aristotle and Saint Augustine also considered the same subject as did Hobbes and the Port R...

Mato Tilpali: Conflict in the Black Hills

Mato Tipila regularly as part of my religious observations, this is not only a political issue for me but also a personal issue. ...

Cooperative Groups For Non-Native English Speakers

of cooperative learning is to encourage student accomplishment "by coupling individual accountability with group incentives and re...

Hawaiian Sorcery

at his door, he must not "send forth his death-dealing prayers" (Kamakau 120). Wealth that he can accept is when he uses his mag...

Symbolism and Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

with Tayos Indian heritage. Prior to describing Tayos chanted curse of the jungle rain, Silko relates a Pueblo myth about Reed Wom...

New World Communications

an exciting adventure yarn. The ships are blown away in a hurricane; horses are killed; and the Spanish miss Cuba and land in Flo...

Sociological Concepts Applied to a Navajo Identity Description

Indeed, this collective culture has changed perhaps more so than any other culture in the world only within the last five hundred ...