Download or read book Haa Shuk Our Ancestors written by Nora Dauenhauer and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recorded from the 1960s to the present by twelve tradition bearers who were passing down for future generations the accounts of haa shuka, which means our ancestors. Narratives tell of the origin of social and spiritual concepts and explain complex relationships. Text in Tlingit with English translation on the opposite page. Includes biographies of the narrators. Also extensive introduction and notes.
Download or read book I Will Survive written by Gloria Gaynor and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Will Survive is the story of Gloria Gaynor, America's "Queen of Disco." It is the story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. Her meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-1970s was nothing short of phenomenal, and hits poured forth that pushed her to the top of the charts, including "Honey Bee," "I Got You Under My Skin," "Never Can Say Goodbye," and the song that has immortalized her, "I Will Survive," which became a #1 international gold seller. With that song, Gloria heralded the international rise of disco that became synonymous with a way of life in the fast lane - the sweaty bodies at Studio 54, the lines of cocaine, the indescribable feeling that you could always be at the top of your game and never come down. But down she came after her early stardom, and problems followed in the wake, including the death of her mother, whose love had anchored the young singer, as well as constant battles with weight, drugs, and alcohol. While her fans always imagined her to be rich, her personal finances collapsed due to poor management; and while many envied her, she felt completely empty inside. In the early 1980s, sustained by her marriage to music publisher Linwood Simon, Gloria took three years off and reflected upon her life. She visited churches and revisited her mother's old Bible. Discovering the world of gospel, she made a commitment to Christ that sustains her to this day.
Download or read book Memory Eternal written by Sergei Kan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a native speaker of Russian with eighteen years of fieldwork experience among the Tlingit, Kan is uniquely qualified to relate little-known material from the archives of the Russian church in Alaska to Tlingit oral history and his own observations.
Download or read book Ahtna Athabaskan Dictionary written by James M. Kari and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dictionary of the Ahtna language, one of the Athabaskan languages, spoken in the Copper River area of southcentral Alaska, by less than 100 persons in a total population of about 1200 of Ahtna descent.
Download or read book The Significance of Word Lists written by Brett Kessler and published by Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion. This book was released on 2001 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Similar words for similar concepts turn up in many widely scattered languages. Some linguists insist that this is simply due to chance while others claim that many if not all of the world's languages descended from a single prehistoric language. Yet neither position in this strident controversy has been analyzed or supported with statistics. New computerized statistical techniques can help determine whether or not words in different languages have an ancestral connection. These flexible techniques are explained, broken into steps, and illustrated in a manner that provides the necessary principles to linguists with no background in statistics. This methodology measures the probabilistic significance of sound correspondences between short word lists. Many rules of thumb invoked by linguists in order to obviate chance resemblance, such as multilateral comparison and emphasizing grammar over vocabulary, are shown to actually decrease the power of quantitative tests. While the procedures presented here are straightforward, the author also details the extensive linguistic work needed to produce word lists that will not yield nonsensical results. Examples analyze the 200 words in 8 languages that are enumerated and detailed in an appendix.
Download or read book Dictionary of Alaskan Haida written by Jordan Lachler and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sealaska Heritage Institute's Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the product of years of documentation of the Haida language with assistance from fluent Elders. It's a must-have resource for language learners and for people who are interested in learning more about the Haida culture. The Dictionary of Alaskan Haida is the most comprehensive dictionary for the Alaskan dialect of Haida, with over 5500 entries. It contains several thousand example sentences gathered from the last remaining fluent speakers in Alaska.
Download or read book Author Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical Lexicon of Navajo written by Robert W. Young and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lexicon is designed to reflect, in detail, the morphological features of the Navajo language -- an objective that includes the identification and description of about 1130 roots that, variously combined and manipulated, underlie its extensive vocabulary. The main body of the Lexicon includes the verbs, the verb-derived nouns and adverbials, the root nouns, the numerals and the root postpositions. The borrowed nouns, particles, a full listing of adverbials, and miscellaneous lexical elements are included in the appendix.
Download or read book Dictionary of Tlingit written by Keri Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is targeted at students of the Tlingit language.
Download or read book The Baloch Race written by Mansel Longworth Dames and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maggie s Miracle written by Karen Kingsbury and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after one magical summer, a high-powered attorney reconnects with a grieving man from her past -- and learns that the miracles she prayed for could be right beside her. Megan Wright spent one unforgettable summer week with a boy when they were both teens. And despite a lifetime of heartache and bad choices, she has never let go of his magical definition of love, even if she has trouble believing in it. After college Megan settled for a relationship of convenience. Now she's a high powered attorney and, after the death of her husband two years ago, has been looking for help with her lonely young son. Across town, Casey Cummins is still dealing with the tragic loss of his wife. His search for meaning and hope leads him to contact the Manhattan Children's Organization, who connects him with a fatherless child. Life suddenly takes a series of unusual twists, and soon Megan will learn that the teenage boy from all those years ago actually kept his promise, and the miracle she prayed for as a girl is only a breath away.
Download or read book Kanta of Kebbi Colouring Book written by +234express and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mean King Askia of the ancient Songhai Empire became too greedy and brutal to bear, Muhammadu Kanta - commander of the armies of the province of Kebbi leads his people on a rebellion against the kingdom and declares independence for Kebbi. Time to add some colour to the fullpage illustrations in this heroic tale. Let's colour!
