As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost
all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian
language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered
from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and
the early twentieth century, span several genres, such as culture
hero stories, trickster tales, animal stories, personal and
historical narratives, how-to stories, and translations of
Christian materials. These texts were collected from seven
speakers: Frank Beaver, George Finley, Gabriel Godfroy, William
Peconga, Thomas Richardville, Elizabeth Valley, and Sarah
Wadsworth. Representing thirty years of study, almost all of the
stories are published here for the first time. The texts are
presented with their original transcriptions along with full,
corrected modern transcriptions, translations, and grammatical
analyses. Included with the texts are extensive annotation on all
aspects of their meaning, pronunciation, and interpretation; a
lengthy glossary explaining and analyzing in detail every word; and
an introduction placing the texts in their philological,
historical, linguistic, and folkloric context, with a discussion of
how the stories compare to similar texts from neighboring Great
Lakes Algonquian tribes.
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