Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language 9780228005155

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Cover
Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
PART ONE
Marius Barbeau and His Informants
Barbeau and the Forty Texts of the Narratives
What Should You Expect from the Narratives?
The Stories in English Based on the Re-Translations
1 The Young Woman Fallen from Above
2 Origin of the Sun Shower
3 The Seven Stars
4 Two Giants and the Old Witch
5 The Big Turtle
6 The Skunks and the Smallpox
7 Phratries Established
8 The Snake Clan
9 The Lion Fraternity
10 The White Otter
11 The Hunter and the Eagle
12 The Wolf and the Young Hunter
13 The Hugnont Charm
14 The Sugar Tree
15 The Hunter and the Dwarf Woman
16 The Beaver Teeth as a Charm
17 The Rabbit Giving the Power to Cure
18 The Porcupine, the Bear, and the Stepson
19 The Bear and the Hunter’s Son
20 The Ground Squirrel and the Lion
21 The Boy and the Pet Snake
22 The Trickster and the Old Witch
23 Tatęriˀa
24 The Deer and the Owl
25 The Rabbit and the Wolf
26 The Old Bear and His Nephew
27 The Steer and the Ill-Treated Stepson
28 Tawidiˀa and His Uncle
29 The Land of Bliss
30 The Wildcat and Its Scalp
31 The Dogs and the Wild Cotton
32 The Pumpkin and the Rabbit
33 How a Famine Was Ended
34 The Medicine Men
35 The Deer Charm
36 An Old Hunter’s Reminiscences
37 The Wyandot at War with the Seneca
38 A War Expedition against the Cherokees
39 War between the Wyandots and the Cherokees
40 How the Whites Fought the Wyandots
PART TWO
Introduction to the Editor/Author/Translator
Wyandot and Wendat Dialects
Differences from Barbeau’s Texts
Faulty Morphological Analysis
Lack of Close Editing of the Textual Analysis
Pronunciation Guide
Conventions Used in the Forty Narratives
Translating the Stories
1 The Young Woman Fallen from Above
2 Origin of the Sun Shower
3 The Seven Stars
4 Two Giants and the Old Witch
5 The Big Turtle
6 The Skunks and the Smallpox
7 Phratries Established
8 The Snake Clan
9 The Lion Fraternity
10 The White Otter
11 The Hunter and the Eagle
12 The Wolf and the Young Hunter
13 The Hugnont Charm
14 The Sugar Tree
15 The Hunter and the Dwarf Woman
16 The Beaver Teeth as a Charm
17 The Rabbit Giving the Power to Cure
18 The Porcupine, the Bear, and the Stepson
19 The Bear and the Hunter’s Son
20 The Ground Squirrel and the Lion
21 The Boy and the Pet Snake
22 The Trickster and the Old Witch
23 Tatęriˀa
24 The Deer and the Owl
25 The Rabbit and the Wolf
26 The Old Bear and His Nephew
27 The Steer and the Ill-Treated Stepson
28 Tawidiˀa and His Uncle
29 The Land of Bliss
30 The Wildcat and Its Scalp
31 The Dogs and the Wild Cotton
32 The Pumpkin and the Rabbit
33 How a Famine Was Ended
34 The Medicine Men
35 The Deer Charm
36 An Old Hunter’s Reminiscences
37 The Wyandot at War with the Seneca
38 A War Expedition against the Cherokees
39 War between the Wyandots and the Cherokees
40 How the Whites Fought the Wyandots
Appendix A: Wyandot Verbs
Appendix B: Earlier Work Done with the Narratives
References
Index

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