The Dog's Children

Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams

Leonard Bloomfield (Editor), John D. Nichols (Editor)

Overview

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.

About the Authors

Angeline Williams, the narrator of these texts, was born at Manistique, Michigan, on the upper peninsula of Michigan. Her home when she worked on these texts was at Sugar Island just east of Sault Ste. Marie. This publication of some of her contributions to the study of Ojibwe is offered to honour her memory.

Book Details

The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts told by Angeline Williams

Leonard Bloomfield (Editor), John D. Nichols (Editor)

Published February 1991, 268 pages

Hardcover: ISBN 9780887551482
6 × 9 × 1 in, $25.00

PDF: ISBN 9780887553721, $25.00

Paper: ISBN 9780887558337
6 × 9 × 1 in, $32.95

EPUB: ISBN 9780887550935, $25.00

Part of the series Publications of the Algonquian Text Society.

Topics: Indigenous Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Translation

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