The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told by Angeline Williams (Publications of the Algonquian Text Society)

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. In 1941, Angeline Williams, an Anishinaabe elder taught the Ojibwa (Chippewa) language to a class at the Linguistic Institute at the University of North Carolina. Ojibwa is an American Indian language which was spoken as a chain of dialects in numerous communities from Quebec across the Great Lakes and into the plains of Saskatchewan. This text represents samples of speech, including the English translation, as dictated to the class and to the teaching staff. Words, sentences, simple anecdotes, and stories are provided for transcribing and analyzing an unwritten language. Much of the text deals with the Ojibwa trickster figure Nenabush, half-dog people, inter-tribal warfare, and buried treasures. Textual appendices include notes on the text which reflect corrections made by Bloomfield to the manuscripts and changes later introduced by Nichols. Also included are notes on the translations and modifications made by the editors. The lexical appendices includes the conversion of transcription that changes the spelling to the common alphabetic characters used in many Ojibwa language instruction programs in Canada and the United States. The book includes a glossary, with notes explaining how the entries are arranged and coded, and an English-Ojibwa index to the glossary. (LP) Cover Contents Acknowledgements Introduction THE TEXTS 1 Nenabush and the Ducks 2 Robin 3 Logging 4 Indian Cooking 5 Sturgeonweed 6 Orphan Grandchild 7 Son-In-Law 8 The Hurons 9 Storm 10 Baskets 11 Granddaughter 12 Mishap 13 Berries 14 The Dog's Children 15 The Daughter of a Dog 16 The Son of a Dog 17 Letter to Granddaughter 18 Great-Grandfather's Money 19 The Two Brothers 20 The Midewin TEXTUAL APPENDICES Notes on the Text Notes on the Translations LEXICAL APPENDICES Conversion of Transcription Forward List of Inflectional Endings Inverse List of Inflectional Endings Notes on the Glossary Glossary A B D E F G H I J K M N O S W Z English-Ojibwe Index to Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y This collection of twenty Ojibwa Indian stories is translated into English from the spoken texts of an Ojibwa woman from the Sault Ste. Marie area of northern Ontario, and includes lexical notes and a glossary