11/13/2023 0 Comments Esl in libraries : communicating with our communitiesby bernards township library![]() ![]() Misunderstandings are sure to result from approaching this important period (which witnesses the rise of everything from global commerce, to the rhetoric of human rights, to the rise of the middle class ) through a simplified “long 18th-century” rubric. I strongly concur with the statements above in opposition to the reduction of 18th-century studies panels at the MLA conference. The late Charlton Heston used to say “I am a Native American.” I would never select this now because too many people define “Native American” as born in the United States. When the University of Illinois, Chicago, creaated its studies program, the committee, which I chaired, selected “Native American Studies as the program’s title. Census are “American and Native Alaskan.” In the last few years, La there has been criticism of Native American” by such authors as Sherman Alexie (Spokane) and Susan Power (Dakota). Canada has used First Nations and Indigenous in preference to American Indian and Native American. ![]() It was never widely used among Indians themselves. ![]() Like Carla Zecher and others, I favor retaining “American Indian” and adding the term “Indigenous” or North American Indigenous” or “American and Canadian Indigenous.” In the 1970s and 1980s, Native American” was popular among Native and non-Native intellectuals. My comment entered this afternoon seems to have disappeared. ![]()
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