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HAITIANSTHEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE REFUGEE FACT SHEET NO.10  
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CONTENTS | PREFACE | INTRODUCTION | LAND | PEOPLE | ECONOMY | HISTORY | EDUCATION | LANGUAGE | HEALTH | FAMILY | RELIGION | CULTURE | HOLIDAYS | PROVERBS | HAITIAN CREOLE | CONCLUSION | BIBLIOGRAPHY | ORDER A PRINT COPY        

 

 

Contents

Introduction
The Land
The People
The Economy
History
  The Colonial Era
  Independence: Ruling a New Nation
  The American Occupation
  Duvalier to the Present
Education
  Education Reform
  Implications for the American Practitioner
Language and Literacy
  What is "Creole"?
  Literacy in Haiti
Health and Health Services
Family Life
Religion
Culture: Arts and Cultural Values
Significant Holidays
Some Haitian Proverbs
Haitian Creole
  The Sound System (Phonology)
  Basic Grammatical Structures (Syntax)
  Vocabulary (Lexicon)
Conclusion
Bibliography

 

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