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Teaching American Sign Language to Infants

Could sign language be taught by the parents? Should a class be taken to ensure the right words were being taught? Could a person ...

Lesson Plans for Language Arts

leads the students through the steps necessary to perform the skill using the trimodal approach - hear/see/do" (Robinson and Crawf...

The Importance of Cultural Skills in Reaching Multicultural Students

chief factor in effective learning in a multicultural classroom. The hypothesis can be presented that:...

Imagery & Dialect/Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God

nothin" but what we see. So de white man throw down de load and tell de nigger man tuh pick it up. He pick it up because he have t...

Native American Algonquin Tribe

variety of dialects (1999). Algonquian-speaking peoples have dominated most of the northeastern North America (1999). Also confus...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

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 ...

Jerry Mander/The Indian Worldview

of a "living earth" and this is basically the origin of the title of this chapter as Mander compares and contrasts mainstream cult...

Indian and European Interaction Patterns

There the Choctaw would ally themselves with the French and would have extensive warfare with the Chickasaw. The Creeks on the ot...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

Paula G. Allen's Spider Woman's Granddaughters and Gordon Henry Jr.'s Light People

impetus of Oskinaways desire to learn of his own origins provides as catalyst that results in as series of interconnected tales th...

Native American Baby Wellness Checkups

in well-baby exams for this group is establishing a rapport with the mother, a rapport that will gain her trust and her compliance...

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 ...

Momaday and Alexie: Variations in the Ways Native American Authors Depict Their Culture

Americans are in actuality much more oppressed by government regulations and society as a whole than they were in this earlier tim...

Native American Culture and Way of Life Decimation

intentionally changed, actions which were all believed justified under the predominant mindset of "manifest destiny". The rel...

A Creek Indian Traditional Culture Introduction

Europeans and to observe that, while their culture has changed in some respects, they remain a distinctive cultural group even tod...

Native American Culture Decline

In five pages this paper examines Native American culture and the factors that have contributed to its decline. Four sources are ...

Property Rights of Native Americans

In seven pages this paper discusses the Native American views on land ownership in a consideration of culture, sovereignty, and th...

Time Perspectives of Native Americans

change to this gross lack of social responsibility; therefore, it is safe to assume that mankind will continue down the road of se...

Canadian Aboriginal Culture and Family Relationship Changes

In a paper consisting of seven pages sibling relationship changes in Canada's Native American cultures are examined through the us...

Pueblo Culture and Gender Roles

In twelve pages the Native American Pueblo culture is discussed in an examination of its development of gender roles with the focu...

Indigenous Women's Roles

In five pages this research paper examines the social roles of women in Native American indigenous cultures. Three sources are ci...

Native American Culture Changes

In six pages the arrival of the Europeans to the continent and the changes that resulted in Native American cultures are examined....

Contrasting and Comparing Native Americans and Buddhists

In six pages differences and similarities among the cultures of Native Americans and Buddhists are examined. Seven sources are ci...

Professional Service Provider Considerations Regarding Native American Culture

In eight pages this paper examines what professional service providers need to be culturally aware of when dealing with clients wh...

Native Indian Technology and In the Absence of the Sacred by Jerry Mander

This paper consists of five pages and presents a review of this texts as it portrays the impact of technology on Native American s...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

Native American Culture and Totem Poles

might be suggested by valued animal faces. The most important aspect of totem poles utilized to demonstrate lineage is that the...

Pacific Ocean and Totem Poles

and a change in the way of life occurred for the Indians. As a result, the ocean became the center of their way of life (Garbarino...

Sacred Pipe of Native Americans, Ritual, and Repatriation

In ten pages this paper discusses the Sacred Pipe of Native American cultures particularly the Lakota Sioux in a consideration of ...