When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian
languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the
Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered
communities of the American West. The rich and varied oral
tradition of this Native language family, one of the farthest-flung
in North America, comes brilliantly to life in this remarkably
broad sampling of Algonquian songs and stories from across the
centuries. Ranging from the speech of an early unknown Algonquian
to the famous Walam Olum hoax, from retranslations of "classic"
stories to texts appearing here for the first time, these are tales
written or told by Native storytellers, today as in the past, as
well as oratory, oral history, and songs sung to this day. An
essential introduction and captivating guide to Native literary
traditions still thriving in many parts of North America,
"Algonquian Spirit" contains vital background information and new
translations of songs and stories reaching back to the seventeenth
century. Drawing from Arapaho, Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware,
Maliseet, Menominee, Meskwaki, Miami-Illinois, Mi'kmaq, Naskapi,
Ojibwe, Passamaquoddy, Potawatomi, and Shawnee, the collection
gathers a host of respected and talented singers, storytellers,
historians, anthropologists, linguists, and tribal educators, both
Native and non-Native, from the United States and Canada--all
working together to orchestrate a single, complex performance of
the Algonquian languages.
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