Observance of American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month

Observance of American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
Project description
Background: A short speech is needed for a commemoration/observance of American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month.

The speech will be addressed to an audience of U.S. Navy and Marines both officer and enlisted on board ship.

The speech should be written from the point of view of a young female Sailor onboard a U.S. Naval ship that is half African American and half Oneida (American Indian). She would be approximately 19 years old and been in the Navy less than a year and onboard the ship only a few months. A few of the items she would like to incorporate in the speech are as follows.

-The tribe my father belongs to is located in the upper peninsula of Michigan off the coast of Lake Superior

-They were originally from upper New York area

-The people of the standing stone

-The identity of the People of the Standing Stone is based on a legend in which the Oneida people were being pursued on foot by an enemy tribe. The Oneida people were chased into a clearing within the woodlands and suddenly disappeared. The enemy of the Oneida could not find them and so it was said that these people had turned themselves into stones that stood in the clearing.

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