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Glimpses of Oneida Life

Karin Michelson (Author), Norma Kennedy (Author), Mercy A. Doxtator (Author)

9781442628335

Paperback / softback, published 18 March 2016

472 pages, 2 maps
25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.84 kg

Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted narrations and conversations in Oneida represent a rare collection of first-hand Iroquoian reflections on aspects of daily life and culture not found in print elsewhere.

Each text is presented in Oneida with both an interlinear, word-by-word translation and a more colloquial translation in English. The book also contains a grammatical sketch of the Oneida language by Karin Michelson, co-author of the Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary, that describes how words are structured and combined into larger linguistic structures, thus allowing Glimpses to be used as a teaching text as well.

The engrossing tales in Glimpses of Oneida Life will be a valuable resource for linguists and language learners, a useful source for those studying the history and culture of Iroquois people in the twentieth-century, and an entertaining read for anyone interested in everyday First Nations life in southern Ontario.

PART I: PRELIMINARIES

1. Introduction

2. Oneida Sounds and Orthography

 

PART II: STORIES

Language

Lessons

Ghostly Tales

Pranks and Mishaps

More Favourite Memories

Customs

Growing Up and Working

Reflections

 

PART III: GRAMMAR

1. Introduction

2. Word Structure

3. Possession

4. Clauses

5. Negation

6. Questions

7. Indefinites

8. Free Relatives and Corelatives

9. Counting

10. Degree and Comparison

11. Possibility and Necessity

12. Other Linkages Between Clauses

 

APPENDIX 1: List of Particles

APPENDIX 2: Segmented Texts

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