Native American Language

Most of us use the term sense of place often and rather carelessly when we think of nature or home or literature. Our senses of place, however, come not only from our individual experiences but also from our cultures. Wisdom Sits in Places, the first sustained study of places and place explores place, places, and what they mean to a particular group of people, the Western Apache in Arizona. For more than 30 years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names.

This volume will revise the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native-American and African-American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo, which no longer carry their original meanings.

What's the secret to speaking English better? It's mastery of those tricky idioms and phrases that are so common in English. And learning these idioms and phrases will not only help you speak better, it will help you understand Americans better. In this course, you'll join an American family as they go about their day-to-day lives. Along the way, you will master over 300 of today's most common English idioms and expressions!

What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in Advanced English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

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America is facing its greatest challenges since its inception and the reason for this is that we no longer acknowledge our Creator or His righteous laws. In our arrogance, He has given us over to foolishness and our worst passions. To turn us back to Him, He has allowed us to experience political divisiveness, increasing poverty, the growing threat of natural disasters, while also allowing our enemies to gain strength while we become weaker.

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026 Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants. With Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Skeets emerged as a...

Speak English fluently like a native speaker with these intermediate English conversation dialogues. What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in Intermediate English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.

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Under the Skin investigates the role of cross-cultural body modification in seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century North America, revealing that the practices of tattooing and scalping were crucial to interactions between Natives and newcomers. These permanent and painful marks could act as signs of alliance or signs of conflict, producing a complex bodily archive of cross-cultural entanglement. Indigenous body modification practices were adopted and transformed by colonial powers, making tattooing and scalping key forms of cultural and political contestation in early America.

There’s no denying that women of color are portrayed as exceptional gems with oceanic depths in Reneé Drummond-Brown’s Black Exotic Pearls: Poetry Book. The ebony beauties are very aware of what to hold inside and what can be shared openly. She knows that she’s the original Mother of all living Pearls. She’s real. She’s authentic. She’s sincere. Her culture is from the west-south side of the northeast sea. Where foreign seas meet and mingle it’s indisputable that black pearls are always a good choice (catch if you will). But those that channel-surf that colorful ocean and ...

In The Search for the Codex Cardona, Arnold J. Bauer tells the story of his experiences on the trail of a cultural treasure, a Mexican “painted book” that first came into public view at Sotheby’s auction house in London in 1982, nearly 400 years after it was presumably made by Mexican artists and scribes. On folios of amate paper, the Codex includes two oversized maps and 300 painted illustrations accompanied by text in 16-century paleography.

Stop losing sales because you couldn't find the right words. You know your product. You know your strategy. But in the heat of a negotiation, do you sound like a confident leader, or do you hesitate? In Sales and Marketing, trust is the currency. If you speak like a textbook, you sound like a robot. If you speak with idioms, you sound like an insider. Advanced Business English Idioms Visual Guide is the secret weapon for international sales professionals who need to build instant rapport with American clients. Master the Language of "The Deal" Stop translating in your head. This guide gives...

THE TAÍNO PEOPLE NEVER DISAPPEARED. WE JUST WENT UNDERGROUND. For centuries, the world declared us extinct. Our language suppressed. Our spirituality driven into hiding. Our culture reduced to footnotes in colonial history books. But the Zemí—the spirits of rivers, mountains, hurricanes, and stones—never stopped speaking. And we never stopped listening. The Temple of Gu: Call of the Taíno is a 200-page expansion for the award-winning Temple of Gu tabletop roleplaying game that uses collaborative storytelling to teach genuine spiritual practice. This is not fantasy worldbuilding. This...

『American Friends』シリーズ第1章。このアメリカンフレンズレッスンシリーズでは、あなたがアメリカで友達を作る手助けとなるような作戦を紹介します。そして日本から新しく訪れる人が、どのようにしてアメリカでの生活に適応していくかをお目にかけます。ここアメリカに引っ越して来た時、日本人は、どのようにアメリカ人と接していけばいいのか、また、新しい友達を作るにはどこに行けばいいのかよくわかりません。このシリーズの目的は、あなたがアメリカ人と効果的かつ適切に付き合っていく能力を上げることにあります。　会話１では、アメリカと日本の社会的な違いについて実例を使って説明します。登場する主人公、花は、２年前にアメリカにやって来た学生です。英語は上達してきていますが、彼女にはまだアメリカ人の仲の良い友達がいません。彼女は、長年アメリカに住み現地の友人もたくさんいるルリ子のもとへ、アドバイスを求めてやって来ました。 アメリカ生活成功の鍵は日本人の良さを残し思考回路をアメリカモードに切り替えることを学びます。　そして会話２では、ルリ子は花に、文化に見合ったやり方で大学のクラスの中で彼女がどのように振る舞えばいいかをアドバイスします。　このレッスンのCultural...

『American Friends』シリーズ第5章。 海外生活を満喫するには現地でたくさんの友人を作ることが必須!でも慣れない土地、しかも母国語の通じない土地での友達作りはなかなか大変です。友達を作る最良の場所は仕事場か学校です。職場も学校も、友達がいれば何倍も楽しくなりますよね。でももし仕事や学校に行っていない場合は、どうしたらいいでしょうか・・・?どんな場所で、どうやって、どんなきっかけから友達を見つけたらいいのか、このレッスンでは、アメリカで友達を見つけるいろいろな方法を詳しく丁寧に解説します!

『American Friends』シリーズ第6章。 今回のレッスンでは、ゲストとホスト両方の立場から、アメリカ流のもてなしについて見ていきます。レッスン内容は、「フォーマルなもてなし」「カジュアルなもてなし」の2つの場面で構成されています。玄関で迎え入れるところからはじまり、飲み物や食事をすすめるまで、ホストとしてどう振る舞えばいいのでしょうか?ゲストの場合、手土産はどうしたらいいのでしょうか?お家に招待する時、された時、のマナーと会話例を、日米の違いも織り交ぜつつ詳しく解説します!

『American Friends』シリーズ第3章。前回のレッスンで、花はクラスで礼儀正しく自分の意見を述べ、友達を作り始めることができました。今回のレッスンでは、他人と知り合う確実な方法として、或いは単に時間をつぶすために、アメリカ人がどのように「世間話」を利用するかお話しましょう。「世間話」とは、取るに足らない話題、また人が強い意見を持たないようなことに関して話すことを指します。例えば、天気、最近のニュース、テレビの人気番組など。出身や仕事など基本的な個人情報について話すこともあります。　会話１　花はキャシーに会いに行くためにバス停でバスを待っています。あいにくバスは遅れています。他にバスを待っているのは、スーツを着たビジネスマン一人だけです。　会話２　花はキャシーと一緒に買い物をするために、ショッピングモールで会います。このセクションでは、世間話からどのようにして友人関係が作られていくのかをお見せしましょう。　Cultural...

『American Friends』シリーズ第4章。今回のレッスンでは、友達と外食する時に知っておくべきいくつかの事項について説明します。「今日はおごるね」「割り勘にしようよ」など、友達同士で外食の際やりとりされる決まり文句。これらも詳しく解説します。　会話１　花とキャシーはショッピングモールのフードコートに行きます。　会話２　武はアメリカに着いたばかりの日本人のビジネスマンです。彼は新しい同僚、ダンとジェーンと一緒にフルサービスのレストランにランチを食べに行きます。　Cultural Vitamin（アメリカ文化についての解説）友達と外食する時、普通誰が支払いをするのかを決めなくてはなりません。支払い方法はさまざまです。二人で出かける場合と大勢で行く場合でも違います。また食べる場所によっても違います。ネイティブの外食時の支払い文化と適切な英会話表現を学びます。このレッスンのテキスト（PDF及びiPod専用テキスト）はEnglish Vitaminのショップで購入できます。