Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 1557094640
A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1616403047
Written in 1643 at a time of great turmoil between Native Americans and the English settlers, A Key into the Language of America is a study of American Indian life, religion, and language. Written by an advocate of Native American rights and treatment, the book presents a number of ideas that seem anti-English and bring to light the prejudices held by the pilgrims. The book was the first study of Native American language written in English, and the commentary on Indian ways of life make it a worthwhile read. Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) was the founder of Rhode Island and an outspoken pioneer who fought for Native American rights in New England in the 17th century.
Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811212878
A white woman's recreation of the sound and spirit of Indian poetry. A sampler: "eagle / turkey / partridge / cormorant / Ptowewushannick. / They are fled."
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1827
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Shirley Silver
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816521395
This comprehensive survey of indigenous languages of the New World introduces students and general readers to the mosaic of American Indian languages and cultures and offers an approach to grasping their subtleties. Authors Silver and Miller demonstrate the complexity and diversity of these languages while dispelling popular misconceptions. Their text reveals the linguistic richness of languages found throughout the Americas, emphasizing those located in the western United States and Mexico while drawing on a wide range of other examples from Canada to the Andes. It introduces readers to such varied aspects of communicating as directionals and counting systems, storytelling, expressive speech, Mexican Kickapoo whistle speech, and Plains sign language. The authors have included the basics of grammar and historical linguistics while emphasizing such issues as speech genres and other sociolinguistic issues and the relation between language and worldview. American Indian Languages: Cultural and Social Contexts is a comprehensive resource that will serve as a text in undergraduate and lower-level graduate courses on Native American languages and provide a useful reference for students of American Indian literature or general linguistics. It also introduces general readers interested in Native Americans to the amazing diversity and richness of indigenous American languages.
Author : Roger Williams
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,45 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : William Edward White
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0879352604
Debate keeps America vibrant. Debate over what course America should take. Debate over our shared, democratic values. Debate over the extent that our shared values influence public policy—and in which direction. Far from being a sign that our democratic republic is failing, this raucous, controversial, enduring debate—this Great Debate—indicates our republic is healthy. Americans continually seek, in the words of the Preamble to the Constitution, “to form a more perfect union.” Not everyone agrees on how best to do that—and that’s where civic and civil debate comes in. Americans have debated what course the nation should take since before there was a nation.
Author : Rosmarie Waldrop
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3110800942
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Rosina Lozano
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0520969588
"This is the most comprehensive book I’ve ever read about the use of Spanish in the U.S. Incredible research. Read it to understand our country. Spanish is, indeed, an American language."—Jorge Ramos An American Language is a tour de force that revolutionizes our understanding of U.S. history. It reveals the origins of Spanish as a language binding residents of the Southwest to the politics and culture of an expanding nation in the 1840s. As the West increasingly integrated into the United States over the following century, struggles over power, identity, and citizenship transformed the place of the Spanish language in the nation. An American Language is a history that reimagines what it means to be an American—with profound implications for our own time.
