Oratory Skills & Practises

Reviews literature and discusses the survival of Indigenous languages, what communities are doing to safe guard their languages, what is working well and what is not.

Contains a speech given by John Diefenbaker at Strathmore Alberta during the election campaign of 1963 in which he discusses his first encounter with Indian people when his family moved to Saskatchewan in the early twentieth century, the many contributions of Indian people to Canadian society, the appointment of Senator Gladstone, and his desire to establish an Indian Claims Commission.

Looks at factors affecting education of Native students in Canada and recommends strategies for future direction.

Examines important aspects of social organization.

Contends that North American languages have some of the most complex phonological, morphological, and syntactic structures.

Integrated Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 2003.

Educational Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1971.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1981

Speech Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1956.

Looks at the gaps in knowledge regarding what Indigenous children and families need for optimal language development.

Presentation of an excerpt from a booklet titled "Encouragement, Guidance, Insights, and Lessons Learned For Native Language Activists Developing Their Own Tribal Language Programs". The booklet is a transcript of a conversation between Darrell Kipp and 12 native language activists at the Piegan Institute, a Blackfeet immersion school co-founded by Kipp.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2008.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto, 2012.

Cites three factors for Indigenous school success: a vibrant native language, bilingual staff, and a stable school setting.

Collection of stories, most from Mississagua, Mrs. Bolin (Nawigishkoke) of Scugog Island, Ontario.

Classical Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Victoria University of Wellington, 2009.

Site provides word search and translation in three dialectsand Listuguj orthography, includes links to songs, stories.

Shows speech-language pathologists need to adapt and transform their professional behaviours for suitably partnerships with Aboriginal communities. Scroll down to page 21 to read article.

Authors discuss their research practice using Indigenous Storywork principles.

Findings from project involving Maori language.

Findings from project involving Maori language.

Findings from project involving Maori language.

Findings from project involving Maori language.

Looks at the development of a Maori language immersion program in a state-run school for children 5-17.

Looks at elements in successful models used to preserve and maintain languages in communities and schools.

Looks at difficulties children speaking Kriol or Torres Strait Creole face when entering the school system in Australia.

Discussion of program which seeks to deal with problems such as broadening students western cultural knowledge to improve language usage and encouraging students to express their personal feelings verbally.

Handbook developed to assist first time teachers in a First Nations school familiarize themselves with specific issues and aid in the transition to a new teaching environment.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of San Diego, 2001.

Provides guidelines, some Inuktitut words and phrases for telephone usage and some existing words being used to describe new technology.

Study, using a sample of 26 households, assessed the impact of the introduction of the new media.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp261-294).

Essays examining the conventional portrayals of Native people in literature, exposing prejudices and misconceptions entrenched since colonial days regarding Native societies, including their moral, spiritual, and political values. Entire journal in one pdf. Scroll down to page 32 to read article.

Interdisciplinary Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia (Okanagan), 2014.

Speaker talks about the importance of language in education. From: Think Indigenous Education Conference (TIEC) 2015, March 18-20, University of Saskatchewan. Duration: 27:22.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by J. Walter Fewkes The Osage Tribe: Rite of Vigil by Francis La Flesche Includes Osage versions and literal translation.

Discusses the implications for the decline of different languages of Pasifika peoples living in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Teaching and Teacher Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2006.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.

Findings indicate students did learn in a computer enriched environment and language use was more evident than in non-computer equipped classrooms.

Examines the factors behind the diminishing usage of certain Nandi anthroponyms, which act as catalogues of past and present histories, and the endangerment extinction.

Author discusses how oral tradition is not adequately protected by patent and copyright laws which allows industry to harvest traditional knowledge for profit; uses a case study of pharmaceutical companies to illustrate how this happens.

Discusses how scientists need to incorporate Indigenous knowledge to help with their Arctic research.

Looks at oral poetry as it is put into the written form.

How traditional knowledge has been adapted to be used in a high school classroom in the Hartley Bay School. The curriculum is being used as a way for students to learn about their people's ways of knowing, and to be involved in the intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom.

Discusses three aspects of speech: eloquence, memory and silence.