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• ISBN: 9780803265486
• ISBN: 0803265484
• ISBN: 080327890X
• ISBN: 9780803278905
• Physical Description: vi, 546 pages ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Published In cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.

"The chapters in this volume were originally presented at the parasession "Problems and Strategies in the Analysis, Redaction, and Presentation of Native Texts," held in conjunction with the Fortieth Algonquian Conference in Minneapolis, 25-26 October 2008"--Foreword.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- Introduction / David J. Costa -- Editing a Gros Ventre (White Clay) text / Terry Brockie and Andrew Cowell -- Gros Ventre text : the Gros Ventres go to war -- Redacting premodern texts without speakers : the Peoria story of Wiihsakacaakwa / David J. Costa -- Peoria text : Wiihsakacaakwa Aalhsoohkaakani (Wiihsakacaakwa Story) / Obtained by Albert Gatschet from George Finley, circa 1895 -- Editing and using Arapaho-language manuscript sources : a comparative perspective / Andrew Cowell -- Arapaho texts : A Name-changing prayer / collected by A.L. Kroeber from Cleaver Warden, 14 August 1899, Darlington, Oklahoma -- Highlighting rhetorical structure through syntactic analysis : an illustrated Meskwaki text by Alfred Kiyana / Amy Dahlstrom -- Meskwaki text : A Man who fasted long ago / written by Alfred Kiyana, ca. 1912 -- Three nineteenth-century Munsee texts : archaisms, dialect variation, and problems of textual criticism / Ives Goddard -- Munsee Delaware texts : a youth and his uncle / written by Nelles Montour of Hagersville, Ontario (ca. 1899) -- On editing Bill Leaf's Meskwaki texts / Lucy Thomason -- Meskwaki text : Bill Leaf's story of Red-Leggins -- Challenges of editing and presenting the corpus of Potawatomi stories / told by Jim and Alice Spear to Charles Hockett / Laura Welcher -- Potawatomi text : Jejakos Gigabé (Crane Boy) / Told by Alice Spear to Charles Hockett, Forest County, Wisconsin, 13 May 1940 -- The words of Black Hawk : restoring a long-ignored bilingual / Gordon Whittaker -- Sauk text : the nekanawîni ('my words') of Mahkatêwimeshikêhkêhkwa.

Language Note:

Text in various Algonquian languages and in English translation.

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Subject:

Algonquian Indians > Folklore.
Algonquian languages > Translations into English.
Algonquian languages > Texts.

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