Books – Translation

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  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

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  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

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  Writings by Western Icelandic Women

  Kirsten Wolf (Translator)

  This collection of short stories and poems spans 75 years of writings. It includes translated work by little-known authors such as Undina, “a modest poet,” as well as works in English by prominent writers such as Laura Goodman Salverson, twice a winner of the Governor-General’s Award. From the hopefulness of the early immigration in the 1870s to the conflict of assimilation in the 1950s, the pieces reflect a range of experiences common to immigrant women from many cultures.

  Published January 1997 | Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Icelandic Studies, Literature, Translation, Women’s Studies

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  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

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  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

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  Western Icelandic Short Stories

  Kirsten Wolf (Translator), Arny Hjaltadottir (Translator)

  This selection of Western Icelandic writings, the first of its kind in English, represents a wide collection of first and second generation Icelandic-Canadian authors. The stories, first published between 1895 and 1930, are set mainly in North America (especially Manitoba). They reflect a weath of literary activity, from the numerous Western Icelandic newspapers and journals, to the reading circles and cultural and literary societies that supported them.

  Published December 1992 | Ethnic Studies, Icelandic Studies, Literature, Social History, Translation

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  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