Download or read book A Brief Word List of Eastern Pomo the Pomo Language Spoken Around the Western Half of Clear Lake in Lake County California written by Sally McLendon and published by . This book was released on 1975* with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlas of the World s Languages written by R.E. Asher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the first appearance of the Atlas of the World's Languages in 1993, all the world's languages had never been accurately and completely mapped. The Atlas depicts the location of every known living language, including languages on the point of extinction. This fully revised edition of the Atlas offers: up-to-date research, some from fieldwork in early 2006 a general linguistic history of each section an overview of the genetic relations of the languages in each section statistical and sociolinguistic information a large number of new or completely updated maps further reading and a bibliography for each section a cross-referenced language index of over 6,000 languages. Presenting contributions from international scholars, covering over 6,000 languages and containing over 150 full-colour maps, the Atlas of the World's Languages is the definitive reference resource for every linguistic and reference library.
Download or read book California Indian Languages written by Victor Golla and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere was the linguistic diversity of the New World more extreme than in California, where an extraordinary variety of village-dwelling peoples spoke seventy-eight mutually unintelligible languages. This comprehensive illustrated handbook, a major synthesis of more than 150 years of documentation and study, reviews what we now know about California's indigenous languages. Victor Golla outlines the basic structural features of more than two dozen language types and cites all the major sources, both published and unpublished, for the documentation of these languages—from the earliest vocabularies collected by explorers and missionaries, to the data amassed during the twentieth-century by Alfred Kroeber and his colleagues, to the extraordinary work of John P. Harrington and C. Hart Merriam. Golla also devotes chapters to the role of language in reconstructing prehistory, and to the intertwining of language and culture in pre-contact California societies, making this work, the first of its kind, an essential reference on California’s remarkable Indian languages.
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Grammar of Southern Pomo written by Neil Alexander Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A title in the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, which lost its last fluent speaker in 2014. Southern Pomo is one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California. Prior to European contact, a third of all Pomoan peoples spoke Southern Pomo, and descendants of these speakers are scattered across several present-day reservations. These descendants have recently initiated efforts to revitalize the language. The unique culture of Southern Pomo speakers is embedded in the language in several ways. There are separate words for the many different species of oak trees and their different acorns, which were the people's staple cuisine. The kinship system is unusually rich both semantically and morphologically, with terms marked for possession, generation, number, and case. Verbs similarly encode the ancient interactions of speakers with their land in more than a dozen directional suffixes indicating specific paths of movement. A Grammar of Southern Pomo sheds new light on a relatively unknown Indigenous California speech community. In many instances Neil Alexander Walker discusses phenomena that are rare or entirely unattested outside the language and challenges long-standing ideas about what human speech communities can create and pass on to children as well as the degree to which culture and place are inextricably woven into language.
Download or read book Pomo Indian Myths and Some of their Sacred Meanings written by Cora Clark and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, which was first published in 1954, some forty-odd myths collected at various Pomo settlements are given clearly and concisely by Cora Clark and Texa Bowen Williams. It includes a separate section in which the sister authors provide a partial analysis of the myths based upon the interpretations given them by the storytellers. The meanings attributed to the tales include much nature symbolism: coyote, in an abbreviated creation myth, for example, is said to represent earth; Frog Woman, water; Kingfisher, air; and the Lizard, fire. In other tales, the number four is said to represent the growth principle; arrows, heat rays; and so on. This type of symbolism has not been attributed to the Pomo in previous discussions, and is thus represented here for the first time. A fascinating addition to the literature on Pomo mythology!
Download or read book Sprouting Valley written by James R. Welch and published by Society of Ethnobiology. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century the indigenous Potter Valley Pomo resided in large sedentary villages in Potter Valley, California, and travelled seasonally throughout an extensive territory in what are now Mendocino and Lake Counties. Beginning in 1890 what would become nearly a half century of ethnographic research among members of this community, homeopathic doctor and amateur anthropologist John W. Hudson witnessed the aftermath of their dislocation and dispersal from the valley following the arrival of non-indigenous settlers. Although never published, his fieldnotes contained an unparalleled dataset on plant use by a single local indigenous community in California. In this richly illustrated monograph the author presents and interprets this historical ethnobotanical information in order to provide new insights into Potter Valley Pomo society and its relationship to the Northern California landscape.
Download or read book Lake Miwok Dictionary written by Catherine A. Callaghan and published by Berkeley University of California Press 1965. This book was released on 1965 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pomo Myths written by Samuel Alfred Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of the myths here recorded were obtained from the older people who acquired them from their elders long before, and when they were in much more complete and detailed form than could possibly be found at the present time, after upwards of thirty additional years of the so-called civilizing process. Many are in all probability as fully detailed as they ever were given in the days before the advent of the white man. A few are fragmentary, and represent the abbreviated and sketchy versions recalled by some individual whose memory for that sort of thing was not of the best; but even these often show interesting variants of myth themes; and often such a fragmentary version throws an important light on some particular point. It has seemed best, therefore, to utilize every one collected, whether it be fully detailed and told with all the elaborate circumstance of its ancient recounting, or whether it be a sketchy, abbreviated account ... myths here recorded were in a large measure taken down in full long hand, and as free translations directly from the informant if he could speak English with sufficient ease. If not, then it was taken in the same manner through an interpreter. Some were taken in text form with interlinear, and also with free translations"--Page 8.
Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Benjamin Eli Smith and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Western Miwok Texts with Linguistic Sketch written by Lucy Shepard Freeland and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1870 Ghost Dance written by Cora Alice Du Bois and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Place Names of Indian Origin written by A. L. Kroeber and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians written by S. A. (Samuel Alfred) Barrett and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Southern Sierra Miwok Language written by Sylvia M. Broadbent and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians written by Samuel Alfred Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flutes of Fire written by Leanne Hinton and published by Heyday. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before outsiders arrived, about 100 distinct Indian languages were spoken in California, many of them alive today. Each of these languages represents a unique way of understanding the world and expressing that understanding. Flutes of Fire examines many different aspects of Indian languages: languages, such as Yana, in which men and women have markedly different ways of speaking; ingenious ways used in each language for counting. Hinton discusses how language can retain evidence of ancient migrations, and addresses what different groups are doing to keep languages alive and pass them down to the younger generations.
