The Chickasaw Prayer Book contains prayers and scripture to offer hope, comfort, and blessings in Chickasaw and English. For the first time, multiple selections from the Bible are translated into the Chickasaw language and made available to the tribal community, general readers, and students and scholars of First American languages.

A Listening Wind, a collection of translated original texts and commentary edited by Marcia Haag, highlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the U.S. Southeast. A whole range of genres and selected texts represent language groups of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Yuchi, Cherokee, Koasati, Houma, Catawba, and Atakapa. The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased in A Listening Wind include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past (or “fixed”), genres that have developed alongside these stories, and modern story types that have sometimes supplanted traditional tales and are now enjoying trajectories of their own. These texts have been selected to demonstrate particular literary themes and the cultural perspectives that inform them. Introductory essays illuminate how they fit into Native American religious and philosophical systems. Overall this collection discloses the sometimes hidden connections among genres as well as their importance to language groups of the Southeast.

This handbook provides broad coverage of the languages indigenous to North America, with special focus on typologically interesting features and areal characteristics, surveys of current work, and topics of particular importance to communities. The volume is divided into two major parts: subfields of linguistics and family sketches. The subfields include those that are customarily addressed in discussions of North American languages (sounds and sound structure, words, sentences), as well as many that have received somewhat less attention until recently (tone, prosody, sociolinguistic variation, directives, information structure, discourse, meaning, language over space and time, conversation structure, evidentiality, pragmatics, verbal art, first and second language acquisition, archives, evolving notions of fieldwork). Family sketches cover major language families and isolates and highlight topics of special value to communities engaged in work on language maintenance, documentation, and revitalization.

This first scholarly dictionary of the Chickasaw language contains a Chickasaw-English section with approximately 12,000 main entries, secondary entries, and cross-references; an English-Chickasaw index; and an extensive introductory section describing the structure of Chickasaw words. The dictionary uses a new spelling system that represents tonal accent and the glottal stop, neither of which is shown in any previous dictionary on either Chickasaw or the closely related Muskogean language, Choctaw. In addition, vowel and consonant length, vowel nasalization, and other important distinctions are given.

"Examines the life of Chickasaws in Chikashiyaakni tingba, the original homeland, before their removal to Indian Territory in the first half of the nineteenth century. John P. Dyson draws on his extensive first-hand research and his knowledge of Chickasaw language to add to our understanding of this period of Chickasaw history"--Amazon.com.

Tells the story of the Chickasaw people through vivid photography and rich essays.

Everything from Christian fundamentalist rapture predictions to environmentalist utopian visions is included in this unique collection of writings about the end of the world. This anthology features luminaries such as Derrick Jensen and Tomas Moniz as well as emerging writers. It also provides practical tips on raising chickens, hoarding grain, stockpiling firearms, learning to build fires and solar ovens, and fighting off zombies. This compilation of diverse apocalypse theories is both informative and inspirational.