A Choctaw Reference Grammar

Author : George Aaron Broadwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803213158
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Choctaw Reference Grammar written by George Aaron Broadwell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative reference on the grammar of the Choctaw language, written and compiled by its leading scholarly expert.

Author : Marcia Haag
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806138558
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Choctaw Language and Culture written by Marcia Haag and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Choctaw lives convey lessons in language.

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar of the Choctaw Language written by Cyrus Byington and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
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Download or read book Grammar of the Choctaw Language written by Cyrus Byington and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brad Montgomery-Anderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149337
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cherokee Reference Grammar written by Brad Montgomery-Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar of the Cherokee language. Although the Cherokee Reference Grammar focuses on the dialect spoken by the Cherokees in Oklahoma—the Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians—it provides the grammatical foundation upon which all the dialects are based. In his introduction, author Brad Montgomery-Anderson offers a brief account of Cherokee history and language revitalization initiatives, as well as instructions for using this grammar. The book then delves into an explanation of Cherokee pronunciation, orthography, parts of speech, and syntax. While the book is intended as a reference grammar for experienced scholars, Montgomery-Anderson presents the information in accessible stages, moving from easier examples to more complex linguistic structures. Examples are taken from a variety of sources, including many from the Cherokee Phoenix. Audio clips of various text examples throughout can be found on the accompanying CDs. The volume also includes three appendices: a glossary keyed to the text; a typescript for the audio component; and a collection of literary texts: two traditional stories and a historical account of a search party traveling up the Arkansas River. The Cherokee Nation, as the second-largest tribe in the United States and the largest in Oklahoma, along with the United Keetoowah Band and the Eastern band of Cherokees, have a large number of people who speak their native language. Like other tribes, they have seen a sharp decline in the number of native speakers, particularly among the young, but they have responded with ambitious programs for preserving and revitalizing Cherokee culture and language. Cherokee Reference Grammar will serve as a vital resource in advancing these efforts to understand Cherokee history, language, and culture on their own terms.

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781727661729
Total Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book Grammar of the Choctaw Language written by Cyrus Byington and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grammar of the Choctaw Language

Author : CYBUS BYINGTON
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book A DICTIONARY THE CHOCTAW LANGUAGE written by CYBUS BYINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781497818477
Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language written by Cyrus Byington and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.

Author : James Henri Howard
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129136
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Download or read book Choctaw Music and Dance written by James Henri Howard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Choctaws are among the largest and best-known Indian tribes originally of the Southeastern United States, but over the centuries they have become one of the most acculturated to white ways, known more for what they absorbed of white culture than for their own distinctive traditions. Since the removal of the greatest part of the tribe to Oklahoma in the 1830s, Euro-American acculturation has become especially dominant. Nevertheless, among the isolated group of Choctaws that remained in Mississippi after Removal and a few individuals in Oklahoma, the old tribal dances and songs have been preserved. This book discusses all aspects of the Choctaw dances and songs performed today by dance troupes in Mississippi and Oklahoma. It describes the social organization of the troupes, the construction and use of their musical instruments, and their costumes. Extensive historical information surveys the early literature on Choctaw music and dance, the divergent experiences of the Mississippi and Oklahoma Groups, and the recent movement toward cultural revival among traditionalists in both states. The choreography for each dance that survives in the Choctaw repertory is described in detail and illustrated by photographs. The book also contains an overview of Choctaw dance music, with a classification of the song and in-depth analyses of musical elements, form, and design. The structure of dance events is reconstructed here for the first time. Musical transcriptions of thirty songs are included. The authors, using a comparative approach, have focused on the relationship between contemporary performances in Oklahoma and Mississippi. Despite regional variations in performance practice, the Choctaws have sustained considerable continuity in their dance and music in this century, successfully resisting fierce pressure to assimilate and thereby lose all remaining vestiges of their culture. This is the first book-length study of Choctaw music and dance since 1943, with much new information on the dances. It will be welcomed by ethnomusicologists, dance ethnologists, students of Native American culture, anthropologists, folklorists, and anyone interested in American Indian dance.

Author : Cyrus Byington
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528377843
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Grammar of the Choctaw Language (Classic Reprint) written by Cyrus Byington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Grammar of the Choctaw Language The Choctaws have always been quick to adopt the instruction of their civilized neighbors, and at present have about seventy schools with nearly two thousand pupils on their reservation.' During the French occupation of Louisiana, in the early part of the last century, efforts were made by the Roman Catholic missionaries to convert them, but without success.2 In 1818, Protestant missionaries were sent among them, who effected a permanent impression upon them, and were mainly instrumental in bringing about their present highly creditable condition. Their evil habits were reformed, they were instructed in agriculture, and their language was reduced to writing. In the latter, the alphabet suggested by the Hon. John Pickering, in his essay On a uniform orthography of the languages of the Indians of North America, was employed. The first book printed was a spelling book, by the American Tract Society, in 1825. Since that time, besides a large number of tracts, almanacs, hymn books, and educational works, the whole of the New Testament and most of the Old Testament have been printed in the language, by the American Bible Society, New York city, after faithful translations by the Rev. Cyrus Byington and the Rev. A. Wright, assisted by educated natives.3 These can readily be obtained, and will be found of great service in elucidating the grammatical structure of the language, as it is for the first time explained in the present work by the hands of the rev. Cyrus byington. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.