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| We can learn about the role of scribes in memorizing a text and then reading it aloud, the work of rhetors in giving public speeches, the role of the rhapsodes (literate storytellers and poets as entertainers) or cantacleers or storytellers, the philosophers orating in the market places, the tradents who passed on the community genealogies and stories, as well as leaders in the Jewish synagogues and sanhedrins and in the Roman senates and local tribunals. I was too shy during the strike to go around orating to the masses or to address any of the large student meetings, except on a couple of occasions. As David Murray notes, during Winnemucca's lifetime, "Actual accounts of Indians speaking rather than orating are rather thin, partly perhaps because of assumptions . |
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