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Are you able to express yourself as a chronicler on a weekly radio show?

Asked by Gifted_With_Languages (1143points) September 4th, 2013

Cautiously follow the following instructions :

Your role : You are a chronicler on a weekly radio show.

Your task : You must present a chronicle to defend the rights of an indigenous people.

Content :

You are free to choose your own subject (but bear in mind that it must be in connection with indigenous people – Native Americans, Maori, Aborigines, ect.).

Time to get up and show everyone you’ve got what it takes!

Show them who is the boss!

On your marks, get set, go!

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KNOWITALL's avatar

So yeah, I could do it, chronicling/ facts are much easier than improv.

Do you want us to write out our show?

Gifted_With_Languages's avatar

Yes, it would be very nice of you. Thank you so much.

Gifted_With_Languages's avatar

Show the world what you can do!

Gifted_With_Languages's avatar

Just follow the instructions. I’m sure you can do it.

KNOWITALL's avatar

Hmmm, that may take some time then. I’m in radio so maybe I’ll see what non-radio folks think about it first. I assume we’re the only host, and need to add personality so it’s not dry facts. You want sound effects, too? lol

Gifted_With_Languages's avatar

Here are some suggestions if you have no ideas:

Native Americans
1— The way they are represented in movies (Pocahontas, Westerns…)
2— Anthropologists want to study the skeletons of their ancestors- for them it is a form of desecration.
3— The Use of indian names of American products : Land O Lakes Butter, Dakota Trucks, Navajo Trucking Lines, Mohawk Carpets, Tucumseh Motors, Pontiac Cars, Winnebago RVs, Seneca Sauerkraut, Big chief Potatoes etc.

Aborigines

Stolen generations {1869–1969} : the Australian government took Aborigine children from their parents because they considered that the Aborigines could not offer them a good education and that it was a necessary form of child protection. On February 13, 2008 the Australian governement finally made an official apology.

Maory

1— Unauthorised use of the word Maori for commercial reasons –example : Philip Morris the cigarette company started producing a brand of cigarettes in Israel called the « L&M Maori mix ».
2— Unauthorised use of Maori image for commercial reasons- example : China produced Maori Russian dolls in 2008.

zenvelo's avatar

This sounds like a school project. Preparing a chronicle (a factual account of something in the time order of occurrence) seems like way beyond what a radio announcer would do.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@zenvelo Yeah, we typically don’t do that at all. Most radio people take acting classes because it’s much more like improv than anything.

Gifted_With_Languages's avatar

Let me reassure you, this isn’t a school project but just a question. Now, prove yourself to others!

YARNLADY's avatar

Digested from the official history article of The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
The Choctaw Nation traces its roots in the Mississippi River Valley for more than a thousand years before European contact. Although their first encounter with Europeans ended in a bloody battle with Hernando de Soto’s fortune-hunting expedition in 1540, the Choctaw would come to embrace European traders who arrived in their homeland nearly two centuries later.

The Choctaw intermarried, converted to Christianity and adopted other white customs. They became known as one of America’s Five Civilized Tribes, which also included the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek and Seminole.

In spite of nine separate treaties, in 1830, the United States seized the last of the Choctaw’s ancestral territory and relocated the tribe to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi. The Choctaw were the first to walk the Trail of Tears. Nearly 2,500 members perished along the way.

Despite the many lives lost, the Choctaw remaine a hopeful and generous people. Today, the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is nearly 200,000 strong and self sufficient, dedicated to improving the lives of its people

KNOWITALL's avatar

Hey everybody, this is Anytime April with today’s except from Native America! Let’s start out with a brief history of the Cherokee tribe.

(These are way too many facts for any radio show btw- but I’m humoring you.)
There are two prevailing views about Cherokee origins.

One is that the Cherokee, an Iroquoian-speaking people, are relative latecomers to Southern Appalachia, who may have migrated in late prehistoric times from northern areas, the traditional territory of the later Haudenosaunee five nations and other Iroquoian-speaking peoples. Researchers in the 19th century recorded conversations with elders who recounted an oral tradition of the Cherokee people’s migrating south from the Great Lakes region in ancient times.

[4] The other theory, which is disputed by academic specialists, is that the Cherokee had been in the Southeast for thousands of years. There is no archeological evidence for this.[citation needed]

Some traditionalists, historians and archaeologists believe that the Cherokee did not come to Appalachia until the 15th century or later. They may have migrated from the north and moved south into Muscogee Creek territory and settled at the sites of mounds built by the Mississippian culture. During early research, archeologists had mistakenly attributed several Mississippian culture sites to the Cherokee, including Moundville and Etowah Mounds. Late 20th-century studies have shown conclusively[citation needed] instead that the weight of archeological evidence at the sites shows they are unquestionably related to ancestors of Muskogean peoples rather than to the Cherokee.

Pre-contact Cherokee are considered to be part of the later Pisgah Phase of Southern Appalachia, which lasted from circa 1000 to 1500.[10] Despite the consensus among most specialists in Southeast archeology and anthropology, some scholars contend that ancestors of the Cherokee people lived in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee for a far longer period of time.[11] During the late Archaic and Woodland Period, Indians in the region began to cultivate plants such as marsh elder, lambsquarters, pigweed, sunflowers and some native squash. People created new art forms such as shell gorgets, adopted new technologies, and followed an elaborate cycle of religious ceremonies. During the Mississippian Culture-period (800 to 1500 CE), local women developed a new variety of maize (corn) called eastern flint. It closely resembled modern corn and produced larger crops. The successful cultivation of corn surpluses allowed the rise of larger, more complex chiefdoms with several villages and concentrated populations during this period.

So listeners, it’s time for you to chime in. Call———- to let me know what you think about the Cherokee Nation and if you feel they got the shaft!

(Just so you know, radio and ratings generally is more about entertainment than information so this is pretty far from reality to me.)

YARNLADY's avatar

@KNOWITALL Well, when you copy and paste you don’t even bother to take out the [citation needed] and .[11] At least give credit to the source.

KNOWITALL's avatar

@YARNLADY Like I said, this is not my reality so I wasn’t trying too hard..lol It was Wikipedia.

glacial's avatar

This is a school project. It’s just not the OP’s school project:
http://www.devoirs.fr/2nde/anglais/devoir-oral-d-anglais-128322.html

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