The book builds on Marius Barbeau's early 20th-century research by presenting the Wyandot language through the forty texts he recorded in Oklahoma. Despite Barbeau's intention to further his linguistic study, his work remained unfinished. This contemporary effort seeks to preserve and continue his legacy, highlighting the importance of indigenous languages and the cultural heritage they embody.
De Religione, the longest-surviving text in the Huron language, was written in the seventeenth century to explain the nature of Christianity to the Iroquois people. In this first annotated edition of De Religione, linguist and anthropologist John Steckley presents the original Huron text side by side with an English translation.
Uses clan structure to consolidate the histories of the two Wendat peoples, Petun and Huron, who together formed the Wyandot, and were subsequently dispersed between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
I have spent most of my life telling stories. In my first year at university in a northern city, I would walk the streets and tell stories I concocted to random people. I taught college and university for over 30 years, embedding stories into many of the lessons I gave. My students used to call me a storyteller. In the textbooks that I wrote and in some of my other adventures in non-fiction, I tried to be more narrator than reporter of "just the facts." My students told me that reading my textbooks was like reading the words I spoke in class. What are these stories like? They are more Alice's Restaurant than Alice Munro. Moving away from recent trends, they are not dark, psychological thrillers, and none of the heroes has super powers, although some have access to articles that possess magic, one being a vegetable These are ordinary people who through their reasoning and imagination win victories in life. Every story has a happy ending.
Investigates into seventeenth-century Huron culture. This work explores a range of topics, including: the construction of long houses and wooden armour; the use of words for trees in village names; the social anthropological standards of kinship terms and clans; Huron conceptualising of European-borne disease; and the spirit realm of orenda.