Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories

$22.95

ISBN: 9780873514040
Dewey: 977.004973
LCC Number: E99.C6
Author: Anton Steven Treuer
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Pages: 272
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Description

A language carries a people’s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales.
This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.
Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthol-ogy presents the elders’ stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages.
These stories contain a wealth of information, including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences, educational tales, and humorous anecdotes.
Treuer’s translations of these stories preserve the speakers’ personalities, allowing their voices to emerge from the page.
Treuer introduces each speaker, offering a brief biography and noting important details concerning dialect or themes; he then allows the stories to speak for themselves.
This dual-language text will prove instructive for those interested in Ojibwe language and culture, while the stories themselves offer the gift of a living language and the history of a people.

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Weight 0.99 lbs
Dimensions 9.01 × 6.08 × 0.87 in
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