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Totkv Mocvse/New Fire presents the work of Earnest Gouge, an
important early Creek (Muskogee) author, and makes available for
the first time-in Creel and English - the myths and legends of a
major American Indian tribe.In 1915, Earnest Gouge was encouraged
by ethnographer John Reed Swanton to record Creek legends and
myths. Gouge's manuscript lay in the National Anthropological
Archives for eighty-five years until two Creek-speaking sisters,
Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt, and linguist Jack B.
Martin, began translating and editing the document. In Totkv
Mocvse/New Fire, Gouge's stories appear in parallel format, with
the Creek text alongside the English translation. The stories cover
many themes, from the humorous allegories of Rabbit, Wolf, and
other personified animals, to hunting stories designed to frighten
a nighttime audience in the woods. An insightful foreword by Craig
Womack and Jack Martin's introduction frame the stories within
Creek literature and history. Martin and Mauldin also provide brief
introductions to each story, highlighting key elements of Creek
culture.
The result of more than ten years of research, "A Dictionary of
Creek/Muskogee" draws on the expertise of a linguist and a native
Creek speaker to yield the first modern dictionary of the Creek
language of the southeastern United States. The dictionary contains
over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand
English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place names in
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume also includes
illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, stylistic information,
word histories, and other useful reference material. Entries are
given in both the traditional Creek spelling and a modern phonemic
transcription. "A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee" is the standard
reference work for the Creek language.
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Creek (Muskogee) Texts (Hardcover)
Mary R. Haas, James H. Hill; Volume editing by Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, Juanita McGirt
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When Mary R. Haas died in 1996, she left behind several thousand
pages of notes and texts in the Creek (Muskogee) language collected
in Oklahoma from 1936 to 1940. The majority of the texts come from
the unpublished writings of James H. Hill of Eufaula, an especially
knowledgeable elder who composed texts for Dr. Haas using the
standard Creek alphabet. Twelve other speakers served as sources
for dictated texts.
"This book represents what may be the optimal collaboration for
work on Creek, between a linguist . . . and a native speaker. . . .
The compilers of this dictionary have done a splendid job,
providing maps, pictures, and illustrations that enhance the
pleasure of consulting it."-Anthropological Linguistics. "Any tribe
that is considering publishing a language dictionary would do well
to browse this book as a possible model for the format."-American
Indian Libraries. The result of more than ten years of research, A
Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee draws on the expertise of a linguist
and a native Creek speaker to yield the first modern dictionary of
the Creek language of the southeastern United States. The
dictionary contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over
four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek
place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma. The volume
also includes illustrations, a map, antonyms, dialects, stylistic
information, word histories, and other useful reference material.
Entries are given in both the traditional Creek spelling and a
modern phonemic transcription. A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee is
the standard reference work for the Creek language. Jack B. Martin
is an associate professor of English at the College of William and
Mary and a specialist in southeastern Native languages. Margaret
McKane Mauldin is an instructor of Creek at the University of
Oklahoma.
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