Nu-Chah-Nulth Research Paper

In this article, “ From Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life,” by David Treuer, he talks about the struggles that Native Americans have gone through. Mr. Treuer brings to the reader’s attention the struggles that most people don’t even realize have happened. Mr. Treuer has one big struggle that is still happening today that needs help to change, which is the lack of Native American language. This is such a high priority struggle due to the fact that without Native American language, there is a loss of heritage.

The film “The Linguists” follows linguists Gregory Anderson and David Harrison on their journey to learn about and document endangered languages in Bolivia, India, Arizona, and Siberia. Through their quest, they are able to interact with some of the few remaining speakers of languages that are near death and they manage to make an impact on how these communities view their heritage language. Focusing on the moribund languages of Siberia and Arizona, it becomes evident that speakers of the heritage language feel a love for the language and the culture it represents, but went through periods of oppression and embarrassment for being speakers of a minority language that ultimately shaped their attitudes on the language.

Throughout the process of colonization, the Native people in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, Silas Hagerty’s documentary Dakotah 38, and Phillip Noyce’s film Rabbit-Proof Fence, all cope with the on going struggles of being colonized against their will. All three of these sources tell their own, different stories about their same struggles. In both Things Fall Apart and Dakotah 38, the colonizing people create a sense of doubt in the Natives’ cultures; whereas in Rabbit-Proof Fence, the people fight to hold their beliefs by continuing to practice their own traditions.

In this paper the main focus is on the language of the Cherokee. Is the language of the Cherokee, or as they also call it Tsalagi, still alive? Is it still spoken among the members of the tribes, including the younger generations or do they have lost the language of their ancestors? Is there something to be done until it is irretrievably lost? In order to come to a solution on this matter, I will be taking a look at why Native American languages in general have become extinct in the first place. On the example of the Cherokee language a look will be taken at the initiatives set to revive and preserve it in order to prove it is still alive and will continue to be.

Whether it be an access to water, agriculture abilities, or natural plants and animals, these factors are seen through the comparisons of the tribes. An obvious difference is language, the Salish speak “Salishan”, while the Cherokee speak “Tsalagi”. Although both the Salish and Cherokee fit under the category of “Native American tribes”, the uniqueness of each group is clear to show, that the tribes are culturally diverse.

Across Canada and the United States there are many First Nations languages which are a part of the Algonquian language family, all of which with varying states of health. Although these languages share many characteristics of the Algonquian language family, the cultures, systems of beliefs, and geographic location of their respective Nations differentiate them. In being shaped by the landscape, cultures, and spirituality of the First Nations, the language brings the speakers closer to their land and traditions while reaffirming their identity as First Peoples. Using the Blackfoot Nation to further explore this concept, this paper will show that while language threads together First Nations culture, spirituality,

The arrival of New English colonists foreshadowed the doomed fate of many Native Americans. Along with Native American being affected by colonialism, a chief named Tecumseh of the Shawnee Tribe asked,“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and much other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the white men”. The chief questions the presence of many tribes due to the colonists.

The Nacirema is a North America group who lives around the area of Canadian Cree, the Yaqui, Tarahumare of Mexico, the Carib, and Arawak of Antilles. The ritual activity is a big part in the Nacirema's lives. They spend a considerable amount of time performing a secretive ceremonies and posses a great amount of tolerance. Their focus is on the human body appearance and health. It is to their believe that human body is viewed as ''ugly'' and ''debility and disease.” Hoping to eliminate those undesirable characteristic traits, the Nacirema's only hope is to do so through ritual activities hence the shrine is built inside of every house.

Most of the Nacirema travel to the edges of their land during the warm period of the year. They pack their vehicles with large sacks that contain food, drinks, odd-looking tools, and shiny boards. When they arrive to the edges of their land they can see water; lots of it. There are also trillions of really tiny rocks that are between the Nacirema's driving path and the water. When the Nacirema walk on rocks, they feel soft.

There is an animal in the Arctic Ocean called a Narwhal. There are three of predators for Narwhals. There predators include Killer Whales, Polar Bears, and Walruses. Narwhals can weigh up to 4,200 pounds! Narwhals don’t have a certain color for their whole life, they change colors! When they are born they are blue and gray, Juveniles are black and blue, and adults are mottled gray. Narwhals will eat Greenland halibut, Arctic and polar cod, squid, and shrimp. A Narwhal's tusk is actually an enlarged tooth with 10 million nerve endings inside.

In Jeannette Armstrong’s poem, History Lesson, she writes in perspective of Indigenous people reacting to the first encounters with European settlers. Historically, Indigenous people did not have a positive encounter with the first settlers due to their clash of beliefs and values of how communities and structures should run. Instead, they had many disagreements which caused the partial destruction of their whole culture. It is clear that Armstrong uses the theme of history to portray the destruction that the first European settlers had on the Indigenous way of life through various points in history. Armstrong imbeds the theme of history throughout her poem to further emphasize her stance on the assimilation of the Indigenous people with the restricting and destructive effects the early settlers had on them throughout history.

Narwhals do a very unusual behavior. The males cross tusks which is known as “tusking.” It’s like you are brushing your teeth, but pretend you’re a brushing your long tooth. The tooth has nerves in it. People think that the tooth is some kind of sensor. The tooth can be 8-10 feet

Electric cigarettes have become very popular recently. One of the most lauded may be the NuCig, a product which has received excellent reviews because of its performance, cost and dependability. The NuCig is a digital cigarette that replaces traditional tobacco having a specially made cylinder that is shaped as being a cigarette.

Rapa Nui was once a beautiful island filled with a civilization confident in their religious beliefs. Arriving on the island from Marquesas or Gambiers during the fifth century AD, the population increased to about 10,000 within five or six centuries. A social separation between the group divided the people into different clans where they then separated into different ranks. Here each clan began to worship and honor their gods by building enormous stone statues. Eventually; however, this gracious gesture turned into a competition where no one cared what was at risk. In the haste to beat one another, they had slowly began to kill the island. Trees were cut down in such a rapid pace that they didn’t have time to grow back. The Rapa Nui people had been their own

There are many minority languages which show their worth by representing their value regarding economic terms and employment opportunities. On the other hand, there are a lot of languages which are endangered because they are deprived in unapproachable regions. Speakers of such languages don’t consider their language as worthy because of which their language lost economic value and status in any society. Similarly, these languages couldn’t pass on to the next generation because of which their existence extinct within a community, or even had been extinct worldwide. One can also infer that because of lack of ‘intergenerational transmission’ most of the facets of individual languages are in danger. It was estimated that about half of world’s languages are expected to become extinct in the next century (Language Endangerment and Linguistic Rights in the Himalayas: A Case Study from Nepal - HIMALDOC). These endangered languages, on the other hand, traditionally exist within the domain of anthropologists and academic linguistics. There is a need of awareness regarding the importance of such languages like international