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Oral culture online nytimes.com
Evolutionary Science - Before writing it down remembering history was done through story-telling, it used to be oral. "Academic researchers are starting to [explore] the parallels between online social networks and tribal societies.
"In the collective patter of profile-surfing, messaging and 'friending,' they see the resurgence of ancient patterns of oral communication. The growth of social networks - and the Internet as a whole - stems largely from an outpouring of expression that often feels more like 'talking' than writing: blog posts, comments, homemade videos and, lately, an outpouring of epigrammatic one-liners broadcast using services like Twitter and Facebook status updates." The Times tells of cultural anthropology Prof. Michael Wesch at Kansas State University who at one time lived with a tribe in Papua New Guinea, "studying how people forge social relationships in a purely oral culture." Dr. Wesch "applies the same ethnographic research methods to the rites and rituals of Facebook users."

Plato warned that reading would be the downfall of the Oral Tradition and memory.
Story Telling, the Oral Tradition from Bards, Ballads, Folkmusic, and Folktales
Folktales & gossip used in the classroom. MUSIC USED TO TELL THE STORY  TEACH HISTORY ... nothing more than story telling. Have You Heard? The role of gossip.


Find Storytelling and Folktales Classroom Resources for Americans.
Historians are great at telling linear stories and written ... STORYTELLING RESOURCES Story Telling - The Oral Tradition rhymes are telling their story and are spreading.

 
John Henry Folktales story telling Classroom Resources
and rhymes are telling their story. The book tells a nifty historical detective story.


The Oral Tradition begins with playground chants


ORAL HISTORY EXCLUDED FROM IRB REVIEW


Orality - By 1660 only 11 books were published in Irish
Verbal Contest and Creativity
One of the major cultural differences between the white middle class and ghettoized Afro-Americans is that the latter have preserved an oral-aural world view while the former have invested their creative energies and imaginations heavily in books, in the typographic-chirographic world.

Social Networking resouces, informtion, and safety tips for parents and teachers.

Social-networking scholarship nytimes
Researchers study social networking sites to learn about human interaction in general because it is  based in real-world relationships that originate in confined communities. . One of the things they're looking at is a comparison of "weak ties," between two classmates or people who meet at a big party.  According to the Times, "social scientists at Indiana, Northwestern, Pennsylvania State, Tufts, the University of Texas and other institutions are mining Facebook to test traditional theories in their fields about relationships, identity, self-esteem, popularity, collective action, race and political engagement.
The Harvard-UCLA project explors the  "triadic closure," "… whether one’s friends are also friends of one another.


Computer Information History - new video
Information Security—Before & After Public-Key Cryptography



NATIVE VILLAGE YOUTH AND EDUCATION NEWS
http://www.nativevillage.org
January 1, 2008  ISSUE 183
During the first Gulf war a group of native Americans in Oregon wrote an open letter to President George Bush Sr, ridiculing his pretext for attacking Iraq:   "Dear President Bush,  Please send your assistance in freeing our small nation from occupation. This foreign force occupied our lands to steal our rich resources ... As in your own words, 'The occupation and overthrow of one small nation is one too many.'  Yours sincerely,  An American Indian."
<<<>>><<<>>>VOLUME 1 <<<>>><<<>>>
 U.N. declaration becomes law of the land in Bolivia
 Huge Native Title Win
 New travel rules leave Native Americans in limbo
Pow Wow princess turned away from voting
 Youth spur on Big Foot Ride
 Floyd Red Crow Westerman Dies
 Disputed Book Pulled From Oprah Web Site
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 Cherokee Nation Takes Part in Early Childhood Pilot Program
 Indian educators see signs of progress
 Native community angry after police question teen about shirt
 Bay Mills sets pace for two-year colleges
 Education consortium welcomes new tribal college members    
 Cuts coming at cash-strapped First Nations University
 The only Native American astronomer?
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Lakota group pushes for new nation
 If you had a trillion dollars
 Blatant discriminations against NJ's American Indians
 More than 1,200 homeless, nearly homeless on MN reservations
 Prenatal care improves for American Indians
 Oglala Lakota College campus will be tobacco-free
 Rocket engineer puts energy into cake design
 <<<>>><<<>>>VOLUME 4 <<<>>><<<>>>
Tree achieves heroic stature
 White House accused of censoring global warming reports
 Deadly Walrus Stampede
 Woolly Mammoths Were Killed Off by Trees
 Festival During Super Bowl Will Honor Native Americans
 Picasso of the North" Morrisseau Dies at 75
 Smithsonian Museum Presents 2008 Native Arts Program Participants
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Mandate of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations to the States of the World
 FINAL REPORT: Indigenous Peoples Border Summit
 Canadian North Cookbook  
 "Igazaunoqtuut" We Need Help
 The Night the FCC Came to Town
 <<<>>><<<>>>SPECIAL FEATURES <<<>>><<<>>>
Sacred Instructions by Spiritual Elder William Commanda and Frank Decontie Children's
 Messages for Peace
 A Season for Nonviolence
 INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS ELDERS SUMMIT 2004
 Hawaiian Book of Days
 Native Americans in the Census
 Washington Monthly's 100 College Rankings
 The World's Healthiest Foods
 ONE WITH MOTHER EARTH