Author: John L. Steckley
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554581354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Words of the Huron is an investigation into seventeenth-century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology of a language that died midway through the twentieth century. John L. Steckley explores a range of topics, including: the construction of longhouses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans; Huron conceptualizing of European-borne disease; the spirit realm of orenda; Huron nations and kinship groups; relationship to the environment; material culture; and the relationship between the French missionaries and settlers and the Huron people. Steckley’s source material includes the first dictionary of any Aboriginal language, Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard’s Huron phrasebook, published in 1632, and the sophisticated Jesuit missionary study of the language from the 1620s to the 1740s, beginning with the work of Father Jean de Brébeuf. The only book of its kind, Words of the Huron will spark discussion among scholars, students, and anyone interested in North American archaeology, Native studies, cultural anthropology, and seventeenth-century North American history.
Author: Saint Jean de Brébeuf
Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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"Native American Language, Iroquoian language, linguistics, language dictionary. Here are collected various short but important works on the Huron language, including Brebeuf's grammatical remarks in the Jesuit Relation of 1636, Lahontan's 50-word vocabulary of 1704, two Huron prayers with interlinear translations, and assorted Huron words and translations collected from the text of the Jesuit Relations. The volume also includes three words of Neutral-the only actual fragments of the language of this important tribe that was wiped out by Iroquois attacks in the early 1650s."
Author: John Steckley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: John Steckley
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205167
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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Investigation into 17th century Huron culture through a kind of linguistic archaeology applied to a language that died midway through the 20th century. Explores construction of longhouses, wooden armor, the use of words for trees in village names, the social-anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans, the Huron conceptualization of European-borne disease, the spirit realm of orenda, Huron nations and kinship groups, relationship with the environment and to material culture, relationship between the French missionaries and settlers and the Huron.
Author: Saint Jean de Brébeuf
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN: 9780802852632
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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This book relates the story of Father Jean de Brbeuf (1593-1649), a Jesuit missionary who lived and worked among the Huron Indians and composed Canada's most beautiful Christmas carol. Full color.
Author: Gabriel Sagard
Publisher: Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing
ISBN: 9781935228028
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard's 144-page French-Huron dictionary, first published in 1632, is one of the earliest dictionaries of any Native American language and is the foundation of French missionary studies in Iroquoian. This exhaustive new edition by renowned Huron scholar John Steckley is a complete translation of this historic dictionary. It begins with a thorough introduction, including extensive notes on Huron linguistic variation and dialect differences, featuring comparisons with other Iroquoian languages. This introduction also breaks new ground in offering evidence of a trade language or pidgin with a St. Lawrence Iroquoian component-the first definitive evidence of the survival of that language since it was first encountered by Cartier in the 1530s. The dictionary section is a direct translation from Sagard's original text, featuring the original French entry, a newly-added English translation, and then the corresponding Huron phrase with added etymological and comparative analyses. Steckley also complements Sagard's phrase-based arrangement with a complete index to the over 230 Huron noun stems and 360 verb stems featured in the dictionary-the first such indexing since the work's original publication and an invaluable asset for detailed linguistic study of early Huron.
Author: Jane Griffith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487513615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Author: Erik R. Seeman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801898544
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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'Appreciating each other's funerary practices allowed the Wendats and French colonists to find common ground where there seemingly would be none. This title analyzes these encounters, using the Feast of the Dead as a metaphor for broader Indian-European relations in North America." -- WorldCat.
Author: Mavis Reimer
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554580161
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of home in children’s literature, which variously picture home as a dwelling, family, town or region, psychological comfort, and a place to start from and return to. These essays consider the myriad ways in which discourses of home underwrite both children’s and national literatures. Home Words reconfigures the field of Canadian children’s literature as it is usually represented by setting the study of English- and French-language texts side by side, and by paying sustained attention to the diversity of work by Canadian writers for children, including both Aboriginal peoples and racialized Canadians. It builds on the literary histories, bibliographical essays, and biographical criticism that have dominated the scholarship to date and sets out to determine and establish new directions for the study of Canadian children’s literature.
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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