Glimpses of Oneida Life / / Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, Mercy A. Doxtator.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Michelson, Karin ,; Doxtator, Mercy A.,; Kennedy, Norma,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 2 maps

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- IndexContents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 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 Correlatives -- 9. Counting -- 10. Degree And Comparison -- 11. Possibility And Necessity -- 12. Other Linkages Between Clauses -- Appendix 1: List Of Particles -- Appendix 2: Segmented Texts -- References -- Index