I Am Acacia Munoz Analysis

Cherokee Indians have been around for many years, but when the topic of Native Americans is discussed it is only about the struggles and hardships they went through but never their actual culture of how and where they originated or how they came to be. There are many interesting things to learn about Cherokee Indians such as their heritage, religion, language, and their traditional songs, dances, and food.

The Cherokee are another Native American tribe. While the Oneida originated in the Northeastern United States, the Cherokee are known to come from the Southeastern United States. They had villages in the areas of Appalachia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. The Cherokee were different than other Indian tribes of that same Appalachia region. The Cherokee were tall rather than short and stocky and their language was very similar to the language of the Iroquois tribes in New York.

Our ancestors came from Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The Chickasaw Tribe is located in south-central Oklahoma with the headquarters being in Ada. They were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800’s. This removal from there to here is called the Trail of Tears. My paternal great great grandmother was a small child when she came on this removal. This journey was very costly and many young children and elderly died while coming to Oklahoma,

An hour with abuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer describes a boy changing his perspective about his grandfather. “Just one hour una hora, is all i’m asking of you son.” (Judith cofer 592) That shows us that he does not think too fondly of his grandfather. “I walk slowly down the hall toward the exit sign. I want my mother to have to wait a little.” (Judith cofer 596) This shows us that he had a good time. Another piece of evidence that supports this question is “Anyway, after my mother nags me for about a week, I let her drive me up to golden years.” (Judith cofer 592)This piece of text shows that he hated his grandfather because he only let her mom drive him there after weeks of begging. A quote that states he liked him is “I liked it all” (Judith

The Cherokee are a culturally rich and interesting tribe. They write amazing myths, focusing on creation and nature. In its prime, the Cherokee nation spanned over an estimated 100,000 miles. The people in it respected the universe. They only took from the what was needed from the environment. They were a peaceful tribe that knew very well how the land around them worked.

The question is if the Cherokee language is still alive. Is this language still spoken? Yes, it is. The Cherokee language is classified linguistically as a member of the Iroquoian family, spoken by the Cherokee people, originally inhabiting Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee. As a consequence of colonization, however, the Cherokee nation almost suffered destruction during the infamous Trail of Tears, 1838-1839, the forced removal of more than fifteen thousand people. Now, in the twenty-first century, the Cherokee make up one of the biggest Native American tribes within the U.S. with over 300,000 members. Despite their language’s gravely endangered status, they are within the top ten of large groups of indigenous language speakers. However, they had to overcome many struggles. Among members of Cherokee Nation in the northeast of Oklahoma, there are only a few under the age of 40 who can be considered fluent speakers of the Cherokee language (Cherokee Nation, 2003). This survey by the Cherokee Nation was conducted of 115,026 Cherokee citizens who live within the 14 counties of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Thus, children are not acquiring the language at home as there is a lack of parents being native speakers. Consequently, UNESCO (2003) labels Cherokee as “definitely endangered.” But how come the parents and even the parents of parents do not speak their native tongue anymore? To answer this, one must know

Thornton, Russell “Cherokee Population Losses During Trail of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate.” Ethnohistory, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Autumn, 1984): 289-300

A short little line that stood out to me here. “Mrs. Sallie Noble says there are some that speak the language still on Salmon River.”. Although this group was said to be extinct there are still some speaking the language in 1921.

The loss of languages within minority groups is a global phenomenon. It is an ongoing, fast moving process among indigenous groups in the United States. A vast majority of Native American vernaculars are nowadays only spoken by elders and as a growing numbers of children merely speak English in those modern days, the languages of their ancestors will soon be irretrievably lost as a result of language shift. According to Krauss (1996), only 20 of approximately 175 Native American languages have speakers across generations. What caused this loss of languages? Why? How can it be prevented?

The Cherokees were one of the five largest Indian tribes. This tribe came from the Iroquoian descent. Iroquoian is a family of North American Indian languages of the eastern part of Canada and the United States that includes Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, Cherokee, Erie, Huron, and Wyandot. They had begun, speaking Iroquoian, in 8000

I chose to research the Ponca Indian Tribe because they started out in the midwest, and currently still live in Nebraska. The 4 elements I have elected to write about are the social organizations, their customs and traditions, language, and the forms of government involved with the Ponca Indian Tribe.

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Pablo “Yorúba” Guzmán’s “Ain’t No Party Like The One We Got: The Young Lords Party and Palante” detailed the daring group of young Latino male adults and select women who met weekly on Saturdays in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) to organize the Young Lords Organization in 1969. What started out as a 6-7 member group of nationalists, the “YLO” were essentially a group of educated—and extremely passionate—activists who cared about history. As told in a first person narrative, the chapter “Who Am I” outlined Guzman’s proliferating interest in learning his country’s history while informing us of an auto-biographical timeline. It’s important to note his influences as Nat Turner, W.E.B. Dubois, Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael to name

I would say that the self is primarily discovered, and inherited. In my personal experience, the self is primarily affected by time. Meaning the self is discovered through the years, and their personal experiences. Although, the self principally discovered from moral principles and personal experience, and etc. There are somethings that cannot be change, because they have inherited those aspect of the family. When a human being is born, they do not have the choice to be poor, rich, white, or brown. All of these aspects are genetics from your parents. But the features we can change or that shape us, is working hard to live a better life. Be someone in the world that has done well. Selections from Underground America: Narratives of undocumented

I am composed of musical notes from being taught to be a “senorita.” I am composed of the action-packed and the red, blue, white, and one star in the middle of the triangle. I’m composed of an island that flourishes with unknown family members. I am composed of experiences that changed my views and made me see A world full of color, instead of things as black and white. I’m composed of the worshipping of the Great and believing in the truest words from the word.