Oratory in Native North America
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780816521821
Subjects: Speeches, addresses, etc., Indian; Sociology; Oratory; Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Speeches, addresses, etc., Ind; Public Speaking; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Description: "William Clements explores the reasons for the acclaim given to Native oratory. He examines in detail a wide range of source material representing cultures throughout North America, analyzing speeches made by Natives as recorded by whites, such as observations of treaty negotiations, accounts by travelers, missionaries' reports, captivity narratives, and soldiers' memoirs.

Here is a rich documentation of oratory dating from the earliest records: Benjamin Franklin's publication of treaty proceedings with the Six Nations of the Iroquois; the travel narratives of John Lawson, who visited Carolina Indians in the early 1700s; accounts of Jesuit missionary Pierre De Smet, who evangelized to Northern Plains Indians in the nineteenth century; and much more. The book also includes full texts of several orations."--BOOK JACKET.