Oratory Skills & Practises

Surveys completed by teachers in federal schools from 1964 to 1968. Statistics for: entrance age, grade distribution by age and sex, handicapped children, promotion and non-promotion patterns, reasons for non-promotion, school attendance, fluency in language of instruction, and use of the basic oral English course.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 2009.

Identifies strategies to support language development and literacy programs for Aboriginal children.

This survey provides information on children’s Aboriginal language knowledge, and their ability to express their needs in an Aboriginal language or to understand an Aboriginal language when someone speaks it to them.

Report summarizes progress of an Indigenous community research project that is creating an Aboriginal pedagogy framework for teaching First Peoples' languages in Western New South Wales, Australia.

Evaluation of program developed for the promotion, retention, revitalization, and growth of Aboriginal languages in Canada.

Looks at how Aboriginal children develop language in Lac Brochet, a First Nations community in northern Manitoba. Scroll down to page 35 to read article.

Highlights the foundational role of language in ensuring long-term academic, social, and economic success. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 37.

Education Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2003.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1993.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1994.

Various Australian Aboriginal health workers from across the country report on health care practices in their local communities.

This address deals with three aspects of the Canadian Branch of Indian Affairs: the history and role of the Indian Affairs Branch, the special position of the Indian Canadian relating to treaties and the Indian Act, and with Indians and Indian Affairs in Saskatchewan.

Looks at study conducted to determine factors keeping adult students in immersion classes.

Adult Education, Counseling Psychology and Community Development Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 2000.

Website presents the ability to listen to various phrases spoken in many Algonquian languages such as Cree, Innu, Ojibwe, etc.

Argues that the old culture of storytelling is the reason for the success of Indigenous theatre.

Describes and analyzes the increase and diversity of regulations relating to Indigenous language teaching in the United States.

Examines issues and status of education today, as well as changes being made to renew Native cultures.

[Applied Linguistics and English ]Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1981.

Lists examples from various sources in original orthography.

Transpersonal Psychology / Deep Ecology (Ph.D.)--The Union Institute, 1998.

Describes the importance of the Cree stories of Wiskipos.

Contains links to grammar, dictionaries, lessons, translations of texts and other resources.

Website dedicated to teaching and preserving the Anishinaabemowin language. Features include grammar, everyday terms, culture, legends, history, fun and games, and language camp.

Book review of: Anishinaubae Thesaurus> by Basil H. Johnston.

Annotated bibliography.

Presents a critical history of research on the oral traditions and the legacy of the Boas collection.

Looks at the process of translating oral stories. Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at two speeches given by Tlingit leader, Clarence Jackson.

Paper examines why the novel is assigned to the category of fiction and provides some character analysis.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 1994.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1982.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Laval University / Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, 2011.

Looks at viable solutions for language revitalization.

Outlines ten directives critical for the preservation of Indigenous language.

File contains a copy of Diefenbaker's speech at the annual Batoche Dinner of the Royal Regiment of Canada, in which he speaks of the Riel Rebellion and of Indigenous peoples obtaining the right to vote and gaining representation in Parliament.

Book review of: The Bear-Walker and Other Stories by Basil Johnston, a collection of translated Ojibwa stories from Sam Ozawamik, Frank Shawbedees and Basil Johnston.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2003.

Education Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Washington, 2013.

Analyzed the language skills of 110 Inuit students participating in a bilingual program in a remote Arctic community.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2004.

2nd edition.

Book reviews of 6 books: Your Fyre Shall Burn No More: Iroquois Policy Toward New France and Its Native Allies to 1701 by José Antonio Brandao. Into the Daylight: A Wholistic Approach to Healing by Calvin Morrisseau. Talking on the Page: Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts by Laura J. Murray and Keren Rice. "Keeping the Lakes' Way:" Reburial and the Re-creation of a Moral World Among an Invisible People by Paul Pryce. Grandmother's Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life by Alma Hogan Snell. Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack.

Book review of: Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche by James Parins and Daniel Littlefield.

Book review of Born in the Blood edited by Brian Swann. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 94.