Blackfoot Stories of Old

Description

The third volume in the First Nations Language Readers series–meant for language learners and language users–this collection presents eight Blackfoot stories told by Lena Russell| a fluent speaker of Blackfoot from the Kainai (Blood) reserve in southern Alberta.

In contract with other Algonquian languages| such as Cree and Saulteaux (Ojibwe)| Blackfoot is not usually written in syllabics| so these stories are presented in the Blackfoot language using the Roman alphabet| together with the English translation.

The spelling system is based on the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet| and should be transparent for native speakers of Blackfoot as well as for linguists.
The Reader includes a Blackfoot-to-English glossary containing all the nouns| verbs| adjuncts| etc.| found in the texts| as well as stress or pitch accents over the vowel or vowels which bear the accent.