Oratory Skills & Practises

Discusses how storytellers can take a person through a wide range of emotions and the wisdom in the stories.

Looks at how English literacy was a part of the drive to colonize and assimilate Indigenous peoples, and how support is needed for Indigenous controlled literacy demands.

Looks at Native American novelists in literature and the histories and identities that dictate their writing styles.

Psychology Thesis (Psy.D.)--The Wright Institute, 2002. Analyses of resiliency in the work of authors including Sherman Alexie, Leslie Silko, Louise Erdrich,

Discusses the history and usage patterns of the word "the", which cause difficulties for non-English speakers.

Human Ecology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2005.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2003.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1963.

Review article of, Voices of the Plains Cree by Edward Ahenakew.

Examines how the traditional story and its telling remains relevant in helping with today's problems.

Looks at the glottal stop in the Utkuhiksalik dialect.

Lists some Inuktitut tongue twisters asked for by this magazine.

Educational Administration and Foundations Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Manitoba, 1997.

Discusses how storytelling can help with cultural and personal identity and other benefits.

Case study using the Ute Reference Grammar. Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.

Adult Education Thesis (M.Ad.Ed.)--St. Francis Xavier University, 2001.

Teaching physical education to Navajo children was a means to bypass the shyness of children and to get them to repeat language patterns loudly and do spontaneous English sentences. Grades 1, 2, and 3.

Discusses how to uncover and work with traditional knowledge.

Looks at the importance of using language to create cross cultural understanding as well as a tool to ensure language survival.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--Nipissing University, 2010.

Excerpt from Report on the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1878 (p.177B-189 Appendix B).

Broad recommendations focus on language and a holistic approach. Others are mandated across four areas: early childhood, prekindergarten to Grade 12, post-secondary, and labour force attachment.

Book review of: Voices from Hudson Bay edited by Flora Beardy and Robert Coutts.

Speech given by Diefenbaker at his investiture into the honorary Kainai Chieftanship of the Blood Confederacy, at Waterton Park, June 27, 1960. Diefenbaker speaks of the virtuous and just society of the Indigenous peoples. He promises Chief Shot Both Sides that Canadian Indians can be assured of equality of opportunity. Diefenbaker mentions his appointment of Gladstone to the Senate. As well, Diefenbaker mentions that his government will grant the franchise to First Nations people, while at the same time assuring that their treaty rights will be upheld.

Pasifika youth (aged 18-25) are interviewed in focus groups in which they express their distress about the diminishing presence of Indigenous language use and preservation, article notes that there is no comprehensive language policy to preserve these languages and that losing them has profound negative effects for the youth of culturally marginalized communities.

Discusses the development of the syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible, and looks at how present-day efforts of reading and writing with the syllabary and speaking Cherokee contribute to language perseverance.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Oklahoma, 2003.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Reviews trends in literature, examines oral traditions, and looks at Euro-American authors in comparison with Indigenous authors.

Book review of: When Our Words Return edited by Phyllis Morrow and William Schneider.

Authors examine government policies and a range of community, education, business, health, and media initiatives that variously support or hinder efforts to maintain or revive the use of Indigenous languages. Compares the effects of language devaluation in two different colonized nations.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2002.

Presents author's personal life experiences using traditional Stó:lõ narrative style and metaphor and the importance of reviving the Halq'emeylem language.

Describes stories told to the author by her mother and father in Diné and English and comments on the necessity of preserving both languages and stories.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, 1963.

Reviews and discusses how Blackfeet author James Welch used history, realism, and myth as themes to affirm the power of storytelling and language Fools Crow.

Indigenous Language Revitalization Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2016.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1968.

Article discuss findings of 10 interviews with community language teachers in New South Wales regarding their approaches to and perceptions of their language education practice.

Animated storybook in Cree.