The Oneida Creation Story (Sources of American Indian Oral Literature)

From Library Journal This is the first time that the Oneida Creation Story, perhaps the most completely documented representation of human and world origins in North America, has been simultaneously reproduced in English and the Oneida language. This account is one of a number of versions in which the basic ancient and traditional elements of this tale are preserved. Key elements of Iroquoian cosmology include the Sky-World, the fall of Sky-Woman and her landing on Turtle's back, the origins of humankind and society, and the moral battles between the brother Twins. The book's history of the research on the Oneida Creation Story, which documents temporal changes in format and plot, is highly useful, and the editors include three lexicons organized by phrase, word, and stem. An appendix provides two additional early English versions of the Oneida text. Lounsbury (Oneida Verb Morphology) and Gick (linguistics, Univ. of British Columbia) have done a great service to Oneida linguistic studies, the discipline of linguistics, and, most importantly, the efforts to preserve the Oneida language.DJohn E. Dockall, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review

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