Verbal Analysis Native American Speeches

This is a collection of 10 famous speeches given by a number of well known and respected Native American Chiefs. Middle school students, in the Connections cycle will find this set of speeches particularly useful as they explore the various cultural references that have influenced the Native American tribes throughout the Americas. Each speech is identified, and then through a set of questions, students are encouraged to further analyze and explore the concepts that are touched upon.

This is a collection of 10 famous speeches given by several well-known and respected Native American Chiefs. Middle school students, in the Connections cycle will find this set of speeches particularly useful as they explore the various cultural references that have influenced the Native American tribes throughout the Americas. Each speech is identified, and then through a set of questions, students are encouraged to further analyze and explore the concepts that are touched upon. The speeches from the following chiefs are present in this book: Chief Conasatego; Chief Logan; Chief Powhatan; Chief Red Eagle; Chief Seattle; Chief Buckongahelas; Chief Tecumseh; Chief Black Hawk; and Chief Joseph.

Geared towards advanced upper elementary and middle school students, this book contains 10 famous speeches: Mary McLeod Bethune (What does American Democracy Mean to Me?)Fannie Lou Hamer (Democratic National Convention)Thurgood Marshall (The Equality Speech)Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Speech on Civil Rights)Mary Church Terrell (What It Means to Be Colored)Booker T. Washington (Democracy and Education)Sojourner Truth (Ain't I a Woman?)Malcolm X (The Ballot or the Bullet)Ida B. Wells (NAACP Speech Against Lynching)Frederick Douglas (Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage) Each speech is presented and is accompanied by questions that help students analyze the content as well as the message. This is an excellent material when used in a group setting providing ample opportunity for group and Socratic discussion. Note: Due to copyright laws each speech has been obtained from the original transcriptions. No edits have been performed and no efforts have been made to change any grammatical or orthographic elements.

Geared towards advanced upper elementary and middle school students, this book contains 12 famous speeches: Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address)Martin Luther King (I Have a Dream)Theodore Roosevelt (Duties of American Citizenship)Winston Churchill (Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat)Abba Eban (On Yom Kippur War)Princess Dianna (Does the Community Care?)Susan B. Anthony (On Women’s Right to Vote)Mahatma Gandhi (On Quitting India)Golda Meir (Attainment of Peace)John F. Kennedy (On Space Efforts)Eleanor Roosevelt (The Struggle for Human Rights)Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle’s 1854 Oration) Each speech is presented and is accompanied by questions that help students analyze the content as well as the message. This is an excellent material when used in a group setting providing ample opportunity for group and Socratic discussion.

75 Pages. Geared towards advanced upper elementary and middle school students, this book contains 10 famous speeches: Mary McLeod Bethune (What does American Democracy Mean to Me?); Fannie Lou Hamer (Democratic National Convention); Thurgood Marshall (The Equality Speech); Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Speech on Civil Rights); Mary Church Terrell (What It Means to Be Colored); Booker T. Washington (Democracy and Education); Sojourner Truth (Ain't I a Woman?); Malcolm X (The Ballot or the Bullet); Ida B. Wells (NAACP Speech Against Lynching); Frederick Douglas (Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage). Each speech is presented and is accompanied by questions that help students analyze the content as well as the message. This is an excellent material when used in a group setting providing ample opportunity for group discussion.

72 pages. Geared towards advanced upper elementary and middle school students, this book contains 12 famous speeches: Abraham Lincoln (Gettysburg Address); Martin Luther King (I Have a Dream); Theodore Roosevelt (Duties of American Citizenship); Winston Churchill (Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat); Abba Eban (On Yom Kippur War); Princess Dianna (Does the Community Care?); Susan B. Anthony (On Women's Right to Vote); Mahatma Gandhi (On Quitting India); Golda Meir (Attainment of Peace); John F. Kennedy (On Space Efforts); Eleanor Roosevelt (The Struggle for Human Rights); Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle's 1854 Oration). Each speech is presented and is accompanied by questions that help students analyze the content as well as the message. This is an excellent material when used in a group setting providing ample opportunity for group and Socratic discussion.

In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination. On another level, it is a story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism. A story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil. And it is a story of hope---of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804. Before it ends, Standing Bear's long journey home also explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity, and the nature of democracy---issues that continue to resonate loudly in twenty-first-century America. It is a story that questions whether native sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible with American democracy. Standing Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how the nation's delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and under siege today. Joe Starita's well-researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction as his careful characterizations and vivid descriptions bring this piece of American history brilliantly to life.

For more than four centuries, Europeans and Euroamericans have been making written records of the spoken words of American Indians. While some commentators have assumed that these records provide absolutely reliable information about the nature of Native American oral expression, even its aesthetic qualities, others have dismissed them as inherently unreliable. In Native American Verbal Art: Texts and Contexts, William Clements offers a comprehensive treatment of the intellectual and cultural constructs that have colored the textualization of Native American verbal art. Clements presents six case studies of important moments, individuals, and movements in this history. He recounts the work of the Jesuits who missionized in New France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and textualized and theorized about the verbal expressions of the Iroquoians and Algonquians to whom they were spreading Christianity. He examines in depth Henry Timberlake’s 1765 translation of a Cherokee war song that was probably the first printed English rendering of a Native American "poem." He discusses early-nineteenth-century textualizers and translators who saw in Native American verbal art a literature manqué that they could transform into a fully realized literature, with particular attention to the work of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, an Indian agent and pioneer field collector who developed this approach to its fullest. He discusses the "scientific" textualizers of the late nineteenth century who viewed Native American discourse as a data source for historical, ethnographic, and linguistic information, and he examines the work of Natalie Curtis, whose field research among the Hopis helped to launch a wave of interest in Native Americans and their verbal art that continues to the present. In addition, Clements addresses theoretical issues in the textualization, translation, and anthologizing of American Indian oral expression. In many cases the past records of Native American expression represent all we have left of an entire verbal heritage; in most cases they are all that we have of a particular heritage at a particular point in history. Covering a broad range of materials and their historical contexts, Native American Verbal Art identifies the agendas that have informed these records and helps the reader to determine what remains useful in them. It will be a welcome addition to the fields of Native American studies and folklore.

..". creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as aself-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application ofpost-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study isbroad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations fromcolonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." -- Raymond J.DeMallie ..". very suggestive, provocative, engaging... --Studies in American Indian Literatures ..". Murray's bookestablishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making inparticular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisitionfor all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger publiclibraries." -- Choice "It is a pleasure to recommendwith wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray's Forked Tongues." -- WesternAmerican Literature