Teaching Native American Youth Laurie M. Freeman University of Phoenix Teaching Native American Youth ` Information literacy and technological literacy are necessary for educators in the constantly changing global world. Scholarship‚ practice‚ and leadership are important concepts in teaching Native American/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youths because these students come from a different cultural background and succeed better with culturally based schooling. Freeman and Fox (2005) said AI/NA students
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The West Indies were home to the Native Americans who had been around for many years. The Native Americans crossed the Bering Strait and stepped into the New World in pursuit of a better climate for hunting and settlement. They are considered as the first North Americans according to historians. After entering into the New World‚ they established their own political‚ economical‚ and social system. Although they have made advances in their society‚ they did not had a common language‚ and had few institutional
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create something together.” This perfectly describes Native American music‚ for the drums are the sole basis of the beat and keep the rhythm going. Once the beat gets going‚ everyone can jump in‚ dance‚ chant‚ and create more sound to make one piece of music together as one. The drums carry out the beat throughout the entire chant and keep everyone in time. Victoria Lindsay Levine wrote in her article titled‚ “Native American Music” and says how “sacred narratives describe the origins of specific
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Native American art and its history are fairly new in the museum world. From the beginning‚ their culture as a whole was not understood. Research and study of the culture to fully understand their lives was few and far between. Even Native peoples that lived among us throughout history were the not used for their wisdom‚ advice‚ or involvement in the representation of their own arts or crafts. The value of Native art was always viewed as of lesser value and lacking interest compared to Western
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Storytelling and its Importance In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony‚ the use of storytelling is quite prevalent. Within the framework of Ceremony there are references of the tradition of Native American storytelling along with the progression of telling a story. Storytelling within the Native American culture is oral‚ traditionally. The method of storytelling within Ceremony at the beginning lays down the framework of the entire book. Silko starts out the novel with a series of stories
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1. The Native Americans were very practical people. They would use the nature for their source of survival. They used the sky as their calendar and they relied on crops for their food supply.The Natives were warriors and they had cities‚ towns and villages. Not only did they have all these but they worshiped items instead of a god. The Europeans had an advanced culture compared to the Native Americans. They had established churches and a main religion. They also had trading systems as well as people
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wearing a jewel in between her eyebrows and appropriating Hinduism at the same time. Culture appropriation has become a common issue in the 21st century fashion world. Culture appropriation is when a more dominant culture takes a significant element from another culture (usually minority) and represents it in a negative context (Fager). Symbolizing the element negatively can be damaging and dishonoring the culture the ritual is taken from (Fager). A bindi is an ornamental mark worn in the middle of
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Early American literature consisted mainly of diaries‚ journals‚ short stories‚ and Indian creation stories. Since some of the language used was of older English and other languages‚ early American literature was difficult to read.<br><br>The first story I read was Spanish Explorers in the New World. This story was a journal of Cabeza de Vaca’s travels and discoveries in the New World. After having a shipwreck‚ he and his fellow sailors were made slaves of the Indians. They walked barefoot‚ bleeding
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The colonists’ policy toward the Native Americans had different origins and therefore different consequences. Much has been written about the encounter of these two cultures‚ which would sooner or later bring about a painful clash. Because of their so different cultures‚ only one would prevail. The colonists as a group‚ depending on their beliefs‚ had harsh policy toward Native Americans. Native Americans‚ on the other hand‚ structured their lives on beliefs‚ which had no common base ground with
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Europeans’ Perspective of Native Americans Europeans’ had an early dislike and no understanding to the ways of the Native American people. They were two very diverse groups of people that could not simply understand one another. They had different views on customary beliefs‚ social forms‚ and material traits of racial‚ religious‚ or social groups. Native Americans were people of the land and that was something that Europeans’ did not cling too due to their new technologies. You never judge a book
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