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Informationen zum Autor David J. Costa is the program director of the Language Research Office at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. He is the author of The Miami-Illinois Language (Nebraska, 2003). Klappentext David J. Costa is the program director of the Language Research Office at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. He is the author of The Miami-Illinois Language (Nebraska, 2003). Zusammenfassung A collection of previously unpublished Algonquian oral traditions featuring historical narratives! traditional stories! and legends that were gathered during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are presented in their original languages with new English-language translations. Accompanying essays explain the importance of the original texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContributorsForeword Introduction DAVID J. COSTA Editing a Gros Ventre (White Clay) text TERRY BROCKIE AND ANDREW COWELLGros Ventre text:The Gros Ventres Go to War Redacting Premodern Texts without Speakers: the Peoria Story ofWiihsakacaakwa DAVID J. COSTAPeoria text:Wiihsakacaakwa Aalhsoohkaakani (Wiihsakacaakwa Story) Editing and Using Arapaho-Language Manuscript Sources: AComparative Perspective ANDREW COWELLArapaho texts:A Name-Changing Prayer Nih¿oo3oo and His Friend the Beaver Catcher: Divingthrough the Ice Highlighting Rhetorical Structure through Syntactic Analysis: AnIllustrated Meskwaki Text by Alfred Kiyana AMY DAHLSTROMMeskwaki text:A Man Who Fasted Long Ago Three Nineteenth-Century Munsee Texts: Archaisms, DialectVariation, and Problems of Textual Criticism IVES GODDARDMunsee texts:A Youth and His Uncle Moshkim Origin MythOn Editing Bill Leaf's Meskwaki TextsLUCY THOMASONMeskwaki text:Bill Leaf's Story of Red-Leggins Challenges of Editing and Presenting the Corpus of PotawatomiStories Told by Jim and Alice Spear to Charles Hockett LAURA WELCHERPotawatomi text:Jejakos Gigabé (Crane Boy) The Words of Black Hawk: Restoring a Long-Ignored Bilingual GORDON WHITTAKERSauk text:The Nekanawîni ('My Words') of Mahkatêwimeshikêhkêhkwa Index...
