Even though the indigenous people suffered great loss in land and culture their pride and traditions live on. It is through these surviving traditions stories of early times are salvaged. Most of the Native American traditions distinguish between songs and narratives. ... Original Native American stories were performed orally in the native language of their tribe. ... Through these orators and the stories passed down orally, eventually essays and books are written. ...

• Word Count: 1765
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Jazz is an offspring of a long oral tradition of African music. ... The importance of theGarner 4 oral tradition in poet Allen Ginsberg's mind leads him to emphasize the importance of sound; if a work can be sounded out in memory, then it has solidarity. ... Following the free-verse tradition of Walt Whitman, a Beat-like luminary, the meter of Ginsberg's poetry is like American dialect, wrought with rhythmic shift and "staccato abruptness" (Feinstein 81). ...

• Word Count: 2473
• Approx Pages: 10

When Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492 he connected two worlds so vastly different that they might as well have been from far ends of the universe. Native Americans, as they came to be known, were a people very much integrated with the land they lived on and saw themselves as a part of it. The Eur...

• Word Count: 1611
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate