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Glimpses of Oneida life / edited by Karin Michelson, Norma Kennedy, and Mercy Doxtator ; stories told by Rose Antone, Margaret Antone, Clifford Cornelius, Hazel Cornelius, Pearl Cornelius, Verland Cornelius, Mildred Cutcut, Ruben Cutcut, Mercy Doxtator, Olive Elm, Ray George, Norma Kennedy, Georgina Nicholas, Barbara Schuyler.
Van Pelt Library PM2073 Z77 G65 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Oneida language--Texts.
- Oneida language.
- Oneida language--Texts--Translations into English.
- Oneida Indians--Ontario, Southern--Social life and customs.
- Oneida Indians.
- Oneida Indians--Ontario, Southern--Humor.
- Oneida language--Grammar.
- Grammar.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern Ontario.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Includes text in English and Oneida.
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Preliminaries
- 1 Introduction 3
- 1.1 The Recordings 3
- 1.2 Text Presentation and Format 4
- 1.3 Variation in Spoken Oneida 6
- 1.4 The English Translations 6
- 2 Oneida Sounds and Orthography 7
- 2.1 Consonants and Vowels 7
- 2.2 Accent and Vowel Length 7
- 2.3 Utterance-Final Processes 8
- 2.4 Use of Punctuation 9
- Part II Stories
- Language 13
- A Man Tells Off His Boss 14
- Berries and Bellies 16
- Win- Berries Are Bellies in Oneida 17
- Kastes Buys a Face 19
- The Bean Game 22
- The Fat Cat 27
- Lessons 31
- The Flirt 32
- Why the Bat Travels at Night 35
- The Crow 38
- Some Woodcutters Get a Visitor 39
- Why Dogs Don't Talk 46
- The Bird 50
- A Jealous Husband 53
- The Story of Birch Bark 55
- Ghostly Tales 59
- Ghost Sightings at the Language Centre 60
- Ghosts, Flirts, and Scary Beings 65
- My Father's Encounter 72
- The Girl with the Bandaged Fingers 79
- An Unwanted Passenger 86
- A Scary Light 92
- A Ghost on the Tracks 96
- A Night Visitor 99
- What My Brother Leo Saw 103
- Pranks and Mishaps 105
- Visits to My Auntie's 106
- A Pig in the Window 110
- An Unusual Spittoon 115
- Worms in the Soup 117
- My First Christmas Tree 121
- A Steamy Story 126
- How I Learned to Swear 130
- More Favourite Memories 136
- A Wish Comes True 137
- MyDogBlackie 139
- A Hairy Adventure 142
- A Scary Hairy Adventure 146
- Friday Nights 151
- Wintertime 154
- Customs 157
- The Spoiled Child 158
- The Dreamer 165
- Forecasting Things to Come 174
- Starting Life Together 178
- After a Loss 182
- Getting Hoyan 191
- Beaver, Let's Trade Teeth! 195
- How to Divert a Storm 198
- Growing Up and Working 200
- An Oneida Childhood 201
- A Lifetime Working 216
- Learning to Work in Tobacco 238
- All about Tobacco 246
- My First Job in Tobacco 266
- Reflections 276
- My Childhood 277
- Family and Friends 298
- A Lifetime of Memories 311
- Part III Grammar 341
- 1 Introduction 343
- 2 Word Structure 343
- 2.1 Verbs 343
- 2.2 Particles 355
- 2.2.1 Pronouns and Identification of Participants 356
- 2.2.2 Certainty and Emphasis 357
- 2.2.3 Location and Time 358
- 2.2.4 Connectives 359
- 2.3 Nouns 359
- 2.4 Noun Incorporation 362
- 2.5 Kinship Terms 365
- 3 Possession 366
- 3.1 Verbal Possession with Alienable Nouns 366
- 3.2 Nominal Possession with Alienable Nouns 367
- 3.3 Verbal Possession with Inalienable Nouns 369
- 3.4 Nominal Possession with Inalienable Nouns 370
- 4 Clauses 371
- 4.1 Clauses, Utterances, and Constructions 371
- 4.2 Clauses as Arguments 373
- 4.3 Introduction and Mention of Discourse Referents 376
- 4.4 Mismatches between Verbal and Nominal Prefixes 380
- 5 Negation 381
- 6 Questions 386
- 6.1 Content Questions 386
- 6.2 Yes-No Questions 388
- 6.3 Embedded Questions 390
- 7 Indefinites 392
- 7.1 Positive Indefinites 392
- 7.2 Negative Indefinites 394
- 8 Free Relatives and Correlatives 397
- 9 Counting 403
- 9.1 Counting One 403
- 9.2 Counting Two 404
- 9.3 Counting Three or More 405
- 9.4 Counting Possessed Entities 408
- 9.5 Age and Time 409
- 10 Degree and Comparison 412
- 10.1 Degree 412
- 10.2 Comparison 'more,' 'less' 415
- 11 Possibility and Necessity 417
- 11.1 Possibility 417
- 11.2 Necessity 420
- 12 Other Linkages between Clauses 422
- 12.1 Kanyo- ok 'so that' 424
- 12.2 Tá-t 'if, maybe, whether, or' 424
- 12.3 Ati 'no matter, although, even though' 426
- 12.4 Khále?, tahnú- 'and' 427
- 12.5 Nók tsi?, kwah nók (tsi?) 'but, only, just' 427
- 12.6 Né- tsi? 'because' 428.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442650305
- 1442650303
- 9781442628335
- 1442628332
- OCLC:
- 928487317
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