Author: David L. Schmidt
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.
ISBN: 9781551090696
Category : Hieroglyphics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs were used to record the prayers, hymns, and sacraments taught by missionaries. Today, only a few can read and write them. This is an accurate and authentic deciphering of the hieroglyphs.
Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers
Author: David L. Schmidt
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.
ISBN: 9781551090696
Category : Hieroglyphics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs were used to record the prayers, hymns, and sacraments taught by missionaries. Today, only a few can read and write them. This is an accurate and authentic deciphering of the hieroglyphs.
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus Pub.
ISBN: 9781551090696
Category : Hieroglyphics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs were used to record the prayers, hymns, and sacraments taught by missionaries. Today, only a few can read and write them. This is an accurate and authentic deciphering of the hieroglyphs.
Mi'kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers
Author: Murdena Marshall
Publisher: Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub.
ISBN: 9781551095806
Category : Micmac language
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Mi’kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers is a collection of sacred readings (prayers, narratives, and liturgies) represented by hieroglyphs developed from pictographic symbols used by the Mi’kmaq Indians of Atlantic Canada before European contact, and later expanded by French missionaries. This volume contains some of the most important texts in native religious life, such as “The Passion of our Lord” and “The Sacraments,” as well as common prayers for everyday recitation. Transliterations in Mi’kmaq and translations in English accompany the hieroglyphic text.
Publisher: Halifax, NS : Nimbus Pub.
ISBN: 9781551095806
Category : Micmac language
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Mi’kmaq Hieroglyphic Prayers is a collection of sacred readings (prayers, narratives, and liturgies) represented by hieroglyphs developed from pictographic symbols used by the Mi’kmaq Indians of Atlantic Canada before European contact, and later expanded by French missionaries. This volume contains some of the most important texts in native religious life, such as “The Passion of our Lord” and “The Sacraments,” as well as common prayers for everyday recitation. Transliterations in Mi’kmaq and translations in English accompany the hieroglyphic text.
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800
Author: Edward G. Gray
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812100
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571812100
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
When Columbus arrived in the Americas there were, it is believed, as many as 2,000 distinct, mutually unintelligible tongues spoken in the western hemisphere, encompassing the entire area from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. This astonishing fact has generally escaped the attention of historians, in part because many of these indigenous languages have since become extinct. And yet the burden of overcoming America's language barriers was perhaps the one problem faced by all peoples of the New World in the early modern era: African slaves and Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley; Jesuit missionaries and Huron-speaking peoples in New France; Spanish conquistadors and the Aztec rulers. All of these groups confronted America's complex linguistic environment, and all of them had to devise ways of transcending that environment - a problem that arose often with life or death implications. For the first time, historians, anthropologists, literature specialists, and linguists have come together to reflect, in the fifteen original essays presented in this volume, on the various modes of contact and communication that took place between the Europeans and the "Natives." A particularly important aspect of this fascinating collection is the way it demonstrates the interactive nature of the encounter and how Native peoples found ways to shape and adapt imported systems of spoken and written communication to their own spiritual and material needs.
Gospel of Luke and Ephesians
Author: Terry M. Wildman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984770656
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The first printing of the First Nations Version: New Testament. A new translation in English, by First Nations People for First Nations People.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984770656
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The first printing of the First Nations Version: New Testament. A new translation in English, by First Nations People for First Nations People.
New Relation of Gaspesia
Author: Chrestien Le Clercq
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343118839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780343118839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Unearthing Ancient America
Author: Frank Joseph
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 160163031X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A collection of articles from Ancient American magazine.
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 160163031X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A collection of articles from Ancient American magazine.
Saga America
Author: Barry Fell
Publisher: Crown Business
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
"Dr. Barry Fell, and Emeritus Professor at Harvard, documents trans Atlantic Old World incursions with much fresh evidence of Libyan, Carthaginian, Celtic, Greek, Roman, and Viking presences on the east Coast. But even more extraordinary is his documentation of pre Columbian Europeans and North Africans in the far West. Graeco Libyans, Dr. Fell demonstrates, used their sophisticated navigational skills to cross the Indian and Pacific Oceans to reach and settle in California and Nevada from the third centruey B.C. Their inscriptions, in the form of petroglyphs, have been carefully recorded in the past by scholars, but until Dr. Fell translated them, their significance was a matter of mystified conjecture, and they were ascribed vaguely to some lost Indian culture... Dr. Fell describes how Thomas Jefferson had suspected a relationship between some American Indian and North African languages. In Jefferson's spirit, Fell pursued his researches in North Africa and found astounding confirmation of his discoveries, both in complementary documentation and in the enthusiastic recognition by North African scholars." Dust jacket.
Publisher: Crown Business
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
"Dr. Barry Fell, and Emeritus Professor at Harvard, documents trans Atlantic Old World incursions with much fresh evidence of Libyan, Carthaginian, Celtic, Greek, Roman, and Viking presences on the east Coast. But even more extraordinary is his documentation of pre Columbian Europeans and North Africans in the far West. Graeco Libyans, Dr. Fell demonstrates, used their sophisticated navigational skills to cross the Indian and Pacific Oceans to reach and settle in California and Nevada from the third centruey B.C. Their inscriptions, in the form of petroglyphs, have been carefully recorded in the past by scholars, but until Dr. Fell translated them, their significance was a matter of mystified conjecture, and they were ascribed vaguely to some lost Indian culture... Dr. Fell describes how Thomas Jefferson had suspected a relationship between some American Indian and North African languages. In Jefferson's spirit, Fell pursued his researches in North Africa and found astounding confirmation of his discoveries, both in complementary documentation and in the enthusiastic recognition by North African scholars." Dust jacket.
Dictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians, who Reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, and Newfoundland
Author: Silas Tertius Rand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Author: Justyna Olko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110862443X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers a broad scope of themes including effective planning, benefits, wellbeing, economic aspects, attitudes and ideologies. The chapter authors have hands-on experience of language revitalization in many countries around the world, and each chapter includes a wealth of examples, such as case studies from specific languages and language areas. Clearly and accessibly written, it is suitable for non-specialists as well as academic researchers and students interested in language revitalization. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110862443X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers a broad scope of themes including effective planning, benefits, wellbeing, economic aspects, attitudes and ideologies. The chapter authors have hands-on experience of language revitalization in many countries around the world, and each chapter includes a wealth of examples, such as case studies from specific languages and language areas. Clearly and accessibly written, it is suitable for non-specialists as well as academic researchers and students interested in language revitalization. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature
Author: Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108643183
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108643183
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 941
Book Description
Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.