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Clackamas Chinook Performance Art
Verse Form Interpretations
Av Victoria Howard, Catharine Mason
Inbunden, 2021
1153 kr
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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Victoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon. Howardʼs maternal …
Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee
Av Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin
Inbunden, 2000
739 kr
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"This book represents what may be the optimal collaboration for work on Creek, between a linguist . . . and a native speaker. . . . The compilers of this dictionary have done a splendid job, providing maps, pictures, and illustrations that enhance the pleasure of consulting it."-Anthropological …
Dictionary of Muscogee (Creek)
With Notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole Dialects
Av Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin
Häftad, 2027
563 kr
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Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
Inbunden, 2011
935 kr
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Creek (or Muskogee) is a Muskogean language spoken by several thousand members of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole nations of Oklahoma and by several hundred members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. This volume is the first modern grammar of Creek, compiled by a leading authority on the languages …
Lushootseed Texts
An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1996
757 kr
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This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish–speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by Lushootseed elders are transcribed and translated into English, accompanied by information on narrative design and cultural background. Upper Skagit …
Choctaw Reference Grammar
Inbunden, 2006
819 kr
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This book is the most comprehensive reference grammar of Choctaw, an American Indian language spoken by approximately eleven thousand people located primarily in Mississippi and Oklahoma. Based on nineteen years of field work with speakers of the Mississippi and Oklahoma dialects and more than 150 …
Grammar of Comanche
Inbunden, 1994
683 kr
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This text briefly discusses those aspects of the Comanche, it will be of greatest interest to a reader who has little or no background in the Numic languages.
Haida Syntax, 2-volume Set
Av John Enrico
Inbunden, 2003
2239 kr
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The Haida people make their home on the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia and on Prince of Wales Island off the coast of southern Alaska. Their language, distinct from their Northwest Coast neighbors, is spoken today by a few elders and is in danger of becoming extinct, despite efforts by …
Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee
Av Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt
Inbunden, 2008
994 kr
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A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee is the first dictionary ever published of a Caddoan language. Formerly an independent tribe living along the North Fork of the Loup River in central Nebraska, the Skiris united with South Band Pawnee groups in the late eighteenth century, and in 1874–76 they were forced …
Comanche Ethnography
Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie
E-bok, 2008
624 kr
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In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter's reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations …
One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage
An Arapaho Life
Häftad, 2007
218 kr
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Sherman Sage (ca. 1844–1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Plains black with buffalo. As a young warrior, Sage defended his band many times, raided enemy camps, saw the first houses go up in Denver, was present at …
Reserve Memories
The Power of the Past in a Chilcotin Community
Häftad, 2007
218 kr
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Reserve Memories examines how myths and narratives about the past have enabled a Northern Athabaskan community to understand and confront challenges and opportunities in the present. For over five centuries the Chilcotin people have lived in relative isolation in the rich timberlands and scattered …
Canadian Sioux
Inbunden, 1984
289 kr
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The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they have been largely neglected by anthropologists and historians and are the least well …
Prophecy and Power Among the Dogrib Indians
Av June Helm
Inbunden, 1994
627 kr
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The Dogrib Indians are one of the Dene people of Western Canadian Subarctic; they speak a language belonging to the widespread Athapaskan family, whose southern relatives include the Navajos and Apaches of the southwestern United States. This study draws on the author's field studies from 1959 to …
Tales from Maliseet Country
The Maliseet Texts of Karl V. Teeter
Häftad, 2009
225 kr
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During the summer of 1963, Harvard linguist Karl V. Teeter traveled along the Saint John River, the great thoroughfare of Native New Brunswick, Canada, with his principal Maliseet consultant, Peter Lewis Paul. Together they recorded a series of tales from Maliseet elders whom Paul regarded as among …
Yuchi Ceremonial Life
Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community
Inbunden, 2003
570 kr
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The Yuchis are one of the least known yet most distinctive of the Native groups in the American southeast. Located in late prehistoric times in eastern Tennessee, they played an important historical role at various times during the last five centuries and in many ways served as a bridge between …
Koasati Grammar
Inbunden, 1991
1110 kr
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An American Indian language belonging to the Muskogean linguistic family, Koasati is spoken today by fewer than five hundred people living in southwestern Louisiana and on the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation in Texas. Geoffrey D. Kimball has collected material from the speakers of the larger …
Koasati Dictionary
Inbunden, 1994
994 kr
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Koasati Dictionary is one of the first modern dictionaries ever published of a language of the Muskogean language family, whose speakers formerly occupied most of the southeastern United States. When first met by Europeans in the sixteenth century, the Koasati people were living in Eastern …
Koasati Traditional Narratives
Inbunden, 2010
850 kr
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Koasati Traditional Narratives is the first published collection of oral literature of the Koasati Indians, who at the time of first contact with the West lived in the upper Tennessee River valley but now predominantly reside in western Louisiana. The works were gathered from several narrators …
Comanche Ethnography
Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie
Inbunden, 2008
614 kr
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In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche elders to record the latter's reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations …
Households and Families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve
Inbunden, 2006
747 kr
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This study of kinship relations, economics, and household organization among the modern Longhouse Iroquois, located in Ontario, Canada, fills a crucial gap in our knowledge of modern Iroquoian culture and history and provides a treasury of information about Longhouse social organization. Founded by …
Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians (Interlinear Translations) Volume 1
Stories of Alfred Morsette
Inbunden, 1990
953 kr
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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian …
Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, Volume 2
Stories of Other Narrators
Inbunden, 1990
953 kr
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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian …
Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 3
Stories of Alfred Morsette
Inbunden, 1992
770 kr
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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian …
Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians, English Translations, Volume 4
Stories of Other Narrators
Inbunden, 1991
770 kr
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Until the late eighteenth century the Arikaras were one of the largest and most influential Indian groups on the northern plains. For centuries they have lived along the Missouri River, first in present South Dakota, later in what is now North Dakota. Today they share the Fort Berthold Indian …
Lakota Texts
Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Inbunden, 2021
1109 kr
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Lakota Texts is a treasure trove of stories told in the original language by modern Lakota women who make their home in Denver, Colorado. Sometimes witty, often moving, and invariably engaging and fascinating, these stories are both autobiographical and cultural. The stories present personal …
Osage Grammar
Inbunden, 2005
852 kr
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When Europeans first made contact with the Osages, they lived in present-day Missouri, along the Osage River. After being forced onto a reservation, the Osages purchased land from the Cherokees in Indian Territory and resettled in northeastern Oklahoma in the later part of the nineteenth century. …
Totem Pole History
The Work of Lummi Carver Joe Hillaire
Av Pauline R. Hillaire, Gregory P. Fields
Inbunden, 2013
467 kr
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Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894–1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century. In A Totem Pole History, his daughter Pauline Hillaire, ScÄlla–Of the Killer Whale, who is herself a well-known cultural historian and conservator, …
Native Languages of the Southeastern United States
Av Janine Scancarelli, Heather K. Hardy
Inbunden, 2005
796 kr
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Of the numerous Native languages and dialects spoken across this region a few centuries ago, only a handful remain today. Native Languages of the Southeastern United States presents a comprehensive survey and analysis of the southeastern Native languages at the close of the twentieth century. The …
Sacred Breath
Pacific Northwest Medicine Teachings, Stories, and Epics
Av Johnny Moses, Gregory P. Fields
Häftad, 2027
839 kr
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