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Learning from the Past by John Steckely traces five cases of
injustice faced by Aboriginals in the Canadian justice system: J.
J. Harper, Helen Betty Osborne, Donald Marshall Jr., Minnie
Sutherland, and Neil Stonechild. Each case has had an inquest,
inquiry or even a royal commission dedicated to identifying the
wrong done, with recommendations for change. This book reveals what
has happened since the investigations, good and bad.
Recollect Brother Gabriel Sagard's 144-page French-Huron
dictionary, first published in 1632, is one of the earliest
dictionaries of any Native American language and is the foundation
of French missionary studies in Iroquoian. This exhaustive new
edition by renowned Huron scholar John Steckley is a complete
translation of this historic dictionary. It begins with a thorough
introduction, including extensive notes on Huron linguistic
variation and dialect differences, featuring comparisons with other
Iroquoian languages. This introduction also breaks new ground in
offering evidence of a trade language or pidgin with a St. Lawrence
Iroquoian component-the first definitive evidence of the survival
of that language since it was first encountered by Cartier in the
1530s. The dictionary section is a direct translation from Sagard's
original text, featuring the original French entry, a newly-added
English translation, and then the corresponding Huron phrase with
added etymological and comparative analyses. Steckley also
complements Sagard's phrase-based arrangement with a complete index
to the over 230 Huron noun stems and 360 verb stems featured in the
dictionary-the first such indexing since the work's original
publication and an invaluable asset for detailed linguistic study
of early Huron.
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