Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language

Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language
Title Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language PDF eBook
Author John Dyneley Prince
Publisher
Pages 36
Release 1904
Genre Mohegan language
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A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot

A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot
Title A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot PDF eBook
Author John Dyneley Prince
Publisher Arx Publishing, LLC
Pages 89
Release 2005-06
Genre Mohegan language
ISBN 1889758647

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Mohegan-Pequot was an Eastern Algonquian language originally spoken in southeastern Connecticut along the Thames River. It became extinct in the early 20th century. This vocabulary contains 446 words collected in 1903 by J. Dyneley Prince and Frank Speck from Fidelia Fielding, a resident of Mohegan, Connecticut and the last native speaker of the dialect; with 12 additional words from the Brothertown reservation in Wisconsin. It features etymological and comparative linguistic commentary for each term by Prince and Speck.

The Languages of Native North America

The Languages of Native North America
Title The Languages of Native North America PDF eBook
Author Marianne Mithun
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 800
Release 2001-06-07
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780521298759

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This book provides an authoritative survey of the several hundred languages indigenous to North America. These languages show tremendous genetic and typological diversity, and offer numerous challenges to current linguistic theory. Part I of the book provides an overview of structural features of particular interest, concentrating on those that are cross-linguistically unusual or unusually well developed. These include syllable structure, vowel and consonant harmony, tone, and sound symbolism; polysynthesis, the nature of roots and affixes, incorporation, and morpheme order; case; grammatical distinctions of number, gender, shape, control, location, means, manner, time, empathy, and evidence; and distinctions between nouns and verbs, predicates and arguments, and simple and complex sentences; and special speech styles. Part II catalogues the languages by family, listing the location of each language, its genetic affiliation, number of speakers, major published literature, and structural highlights. Finally, there is a catalogue of languages that have evolved in contact situations.

American Anthropologist

American Anthropologist
Title American Anthropologist PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 714
Release 1914
Genre Anthropology
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Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas

Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Title Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Reference Department
Publisher
Pages 1104
Release 1961
Genre America
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Savage Kin

Savage Kin
Title Savage Kin PDF eBook
Author Margaret M. Bruchac
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 281
Release 2018-04-10
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0816538301

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In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word savage on its head. Savage Kin explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants, such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and early twentieth-century anthropological collectors, such as Frank Speck, Arthur C. Parker, William N. Fenton, and Franz Boas. This book reconceptualizes the intimate details of encounters with Native interlocutors who by turns inspired, facilitated, and resisted the anthropological enterprise. Like other texts focused on this era, Savage Kin features some of the elite white men credited with salvaging material that might otherwise have been lost. Unlike other texts, this book highlights the intellectual contributions and cultural strategies of unsung Indigenous informants without whom this research could never have taken place. These bicultural partnerships transgressed social divides and blurred the roles of anthropologist/informant, relative/stranger, and collector/collected. Yet these stories were obscured by collecting practices that separated people from objects, objects from communities, and communities from stories. Bruchac’s decolonizing efforts include “reverse ethnography”—painstakingly tracking seemingly unidentifiable objects, misconstrued social relations, unpublished correspondence, and unattributed field notes—to recover this evidence. Those early encounters generated foundational knowledges that still affect Indigenous communities today. Savage Kin also contains unexpected narratives of human and other-than-human encounters—brilliant discoveries, lessons from ancestral spirits, prophetic warnings, powerful gifts, and personal tragedies—that will move Native and non-Native readers alike.

Dawnland Voices

Dawnland Voices
Title Dawnland Voices PDF eBook
Author Siobhan Senier
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 716
Release 2014-09-01
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0803246862

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Dawnland Voices calls attention to the little-known but extraordinarily rich literary traditions of New England’s Native Americans. This pathbreaking anthology includes both classic and contemporary literary works from ten New England indigenous nations: the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Mohegan, Narragansett, Nipmuc, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Schaghticoke, and Wampanoag. Through literary collaboration and recovery, Siobhan Senier and Native tribal historians and scholars have crafted a unique volume covering a variety of genres and historical periods. From the earliest petroglyphs and petitions to contemporary stories and hip-hop poetry, this volume highlights the diversity and strength of New England Native literary traditions. Dawnland Voices introduces readers to the compelling and unique literary heritage in New England, banishing the misconception that “real” Indians and their traditions vanished from that region centuries ago.