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"As an Elder once said, "Learn one Cree word a day for 100 days, and emerge a different person." In 100 Days of Cree Neal McLeod offers a portal into another way of understanding the universe--and our place within it--while demonstrating why this funny, vibrant, and sometimes salacious language is "the sexiest" of them all (according to Tomson Highway). Based on a series of Facebook posts, the 100 short chapters or "days" in the book present chains of related words, some dealing with the traditional--the buffalo hunt, the seasons--and others cheekily capturing the detritus of modern life--from internet slang to Johnny Cash songs to Viagra."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Provenance
• Hopi language
• The 1860 English-Hopi vocabulary.

In 1859 Brigham Young sent two Mormon missionaries to live among the Hopi, ""reduce their dialect to a written language, "" and then teach it to the Hopi so that they would be able to read the Book of Mormon in their own tongue. Young also instructed the men to teach the Hopi the Deseret alphabet, a phonemic system that he was promoting in place of the traditional Latin alphabet. While the Deseret alphabet faded out of use in just over twenty years, the manuscript penned by one of the missionaries has remained in existence. For decades it sat unidentified in the archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints - a mystery document having no title, author, or date. But authors Beesley and Elzinga have now traced the manuscript's origin to the missioaries of 1859-1860 and decoded its Hopi-English vocabularly written in the short-lived Deseret alphabet. The resulting book offers a fascinating mix of linguistics, Mormon history, and Native American studies. The volume reproduces all 48 vocabularly entries of the original manuscript, presenting the Deseret and the modern English and Hopi translations. It explains the history of the Deseret alphabet as well as that of the Mormon missions to the Hopi, while fleshing out the background of the two missionaries, Marion Jackson Shelton, who wrote the manuscript, and his companion, Thales Hastings Haskell. The book will be of interest to linguists, historians, ethnographers, and others who are curious about the unique combination of topics this work connects.
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• Acknowledgments Note on the Pronunciation of Mayan Words Introduction PART ONE
• 1. Learning to Read
• 2. Early Mayan Writing
• 3. The Skilled Observer from Maxam
• 4. From the Time of Gods to the Time of Lords
• 5. Cormorant and Her Three Sons
• 6. Temple of the Sun- Eyed Shield
• 7. Temple of the Tree of Yellow Corn
• 8. Lady Shark Fin and the Eve ning Star
• 9. The Rattlesnakes of the City of Three Stones
• 10. Drawing and Designing with Words
• 11. Graffiti
• 12. The Question of the Beginning and End of Time
• 13. The Mouth of the Well of the Itza
• 14. Writing on the Pages of Books
• 15. Signs of the Times
• 16. Moon Woman Meets the Stars
• 17. The Power of the Great Star
• 18. Thunderstorm
• 19. Diagrams of the Days PART TWO
• 20. The Alphabet Arrives in the Lowlands
• 21. The Books of Chilam Balam
• 22. Understanding the Language of Suyua
• 23. Song of the Birth of the Twenty Days
• 24. Conversations with Madness
• 25. The Alphabet Arrives in the Highlands
• 26. A Way to See the Dawn of Life
• 27. Blood Moon Becomes a Trickster
• 28. The Death of Death
• 29. The Human Work, the Human Design
• 30. We Saw It All, Oh My Sons
• 31. The Count of Days
• 32. Man of Rabinal Epilogue Notes Bibliography List of Mayan Texts and Translations List of Figures List of Maps Illustration Credits Index.
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Mayan literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day. Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet. Dennis Tedlock - ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author - draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient Mayan texts as literature. Tedlock considers the texts chronologically. He establishes that women were among the ancient writers and challenges the idea that Mayan rulers claimed the status of gods. "2000 Years of Mayan Literature" expands our understanding and appreciation not only of Mayan literature but of indigenous American literature in its entirety.
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The Dakota language owes much of its expansiveness to its verbs, or action words. yet until now, students of Dakota have had few resources in verb usage and conjugation beyond nineteenth-century dictionaries compiled by missionaries. The book provides students of Dakota - and the Lakota and Nakota dialects - the proper conjugations for 550 verbs from adi (to step or walk on) to zo (to whistle). Compiled by Dakota language teachers and students, the book is learner friendly and easy to use. It features clear explanations of Dakota pronoun and conjugation patterns, notes on traditional and modern usages, and handy Dakota-English and English-Dakota verb lists. Designed to enhance everyday conversation as well as contribute to the revitalisation of this endangered language, "550 Dakota Verbs" is an indispensable resource for all who are interested in Dakota and its dialects.
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