... real history is embedded in Native American oral traditions. Oral traditions contain cultural information about the past carefully preserved and handed down from generation to generation within a tribe. In Native North American cultures, the people would sit in a circle with everyone at the same height so that no one is in the lead or in a higher position. The literature of the tribe was ... passed on verbally. Oral literature, called folklore, legends, or myths, includes songs, stories, and rituals ... . Without explanation, the tales lack social and communal significance. They often l...

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... . Looking at this definition, although many say that the European settlers did not necessarily come straight out kill native Americans or aboriginals, they committed acts of genocide in many other ways. The Native American Issue: Looking first at native Americans in North America, since 1513, when Ponce de Leon landed on this continent in search of the ... population was at that time. This is the first way that Euro-Americans showed how little Indians mattered in their "New World". The main way the literature of the day tried to prove that we didn't harm the Indians nearly as bad as peop...

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... the allusion of Americanization-Caliban plausible although they began to realize there was some links between Shakespeare's play and the travel literature of his day. However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. Sidney Lee, the famous scholar knighted for his study of Shakespeare's work ... replaced it with another, this Caliban had a valuable heritage that found expression through Prospero's language. And the focus was shifted from despair over the deprivation of native...

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... the allusion of Americanization-Caliban plausible although they began to realize there was some links between Shakespeare's play and the travel literature of his day. However, gradually assumptions about The Tempest's relations with American colonization accumulated and "American school" of Tempest interpretation began to emerge. Sidney Lee, the famous scholar knighted for his study of Shakespeare's work ... replaced it with another, this Caliban had a valuable heritage that found expression through Prospero's language. And the focus was shifted from despair over the deprivation of native...

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... order to better inform their fellow brothers who were soon to arrive and colonize this new territory. These reports proved to be very important to the colonization movement's later promotional literature. According to Sokol, the reports were originally used to "convince the nobility and merchants of the desirable investment potential the colonization of the region promised, the material provided ... to a new audience - the future settlers themselves."" Several other explorers with closed minds did also make assumptions of the native people due to their lack of non-biased thinking. Docume...

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... The final article is a study of a new and forthcoming area of ecotourism called geotourism and the various demographics and psychographics they encompass among American travelers. "Ecotourism, Economics and the Environment: Observations from China" by Clem Tisdell speaks of ecotourism in China. It talks about how ecotourism can ... not be affordable otherwise. Demand for local agricultural products may increase as well because ecotourists many times want to eat foods that are native to the area. Local cultures can be supported due to demand from tourists who want cultural crafts and sou...

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