Books – Publications of the Algonquian Text Society

mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is who I truly am

nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / me, I am truly a Cree woman

Sarah Whitecalf (Author), H.C. Wolfart (Editor), Freda Ahenakew (Editor), Ted Whitecalf (Author)

A Cree woman’s life in her own words.

Published April 2021 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Autobiography & Memoir, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics
Arapaho Historical Traditions

Hinono’einoo3itoono

Paul Moss (Author), Andrew Cowell (Translator), Alonzo Moss Sr. (Translator)

Told by Paul Moss (1911-1995), a highly respected storyteller and ceremonial leader, these twelve texts introduce us to an immensely rich literature. As works of an oral tradition, they had until now remained beyond the reach of those who do not speak the Arapaho language.

Published August 2005 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, History, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Oral History & Storytelling, Translation
They Knew Both Sides of Medicine

Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew / âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy

H.C. Wolfart (Translator), Freda Ahenakew (Translator)

Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became an Anglican clergyman and a prominent healer. Alice Ahenakew’s personal reminiscences include stories of her childhood, courtship and marriage, as well as an account of the 1928 influenza epidemic and encounters with a windigo. The centrepiece of this book is the fascinating account of Andrew Ahenakew’s bear vision, through which he received healing powers.

Published November 2000 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Autobiography & Memoir, Decolonization, History, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Translation
The Dog’s Children

Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams

Angeline Williams (Author), Leonard Bloomfield (Editor), John D. Nichols (Editor)

These are a collection of 20 stories, dictated in 1941 to Bloomfield’s linguistics class, edited from manuscripts now in the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution, and published for the first time. In Ojibwe, with English translations by Bloomfield. Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids.

Published January 1999 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Translation
The Counselling Speeches of Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw

ana kâ-pimwêwêhahk okakêskihkêmowina

Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw (Author), Freda Ahenakew (Editor), H.C. Wolfart (Editor)

Jim Kâ-Nîpitêhtêw was a respected Cree Elder from Onion Lake, Saskatchewan, who spoke only Cree and provided these original counselling discourses.

Published October 1998 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, History, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Translation
Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay

âtalôhkâna nêsta tipâcimôwina

C. Douglas Ellis (Editor)

This is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s. Conversations and interviews with 16 different speakers include: legends, reminiscences, historical narratives, stories and conversations, as well as descriptions of technology.

Published July 1995 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, History, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Translation
The Cree Language Is Our Identity

The LA Ronge Lectures of Sarah Whitecalf/kinêhiyâwiwininaw nêhiyawêwin

H.C. Wolfart (Author), Freda Ahenakew (Author)

Publication of the Algonquian Text Society #3.

Published November 1993 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Translation
Stories of the House People

wâskahikaniwiyiniw-âcimowina

Peter Vandall (Author), Joe Douquette (Author), Freda Ahenakew (Editor)

Publications of the Algonquian Text Society #1.

Published January 1987 | Publications of the Algonquian Text Society, Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Translation