A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee Contributor(s): Parks, Douglas R. (Author), Pratt, Lula Nora (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803219261 ISBN-13: 9780803219267 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Language Arts & Disciplines | Grammar & Punctuation - Foreign Language Study | Native American Languages |
Dewey: 497.933 |
LCCN: 2008031042 |
Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians |
Physical Information: 1.9" H x 7.3" W x 10.1" (3.00 lbs) 568 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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Publisher Description:
A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee is the first dictionary ever published of a Caddoan language. Formerly an independent tribe living along the North Fork of the Loup River in central Nebraska, the Skiris united with South Band Pawnee groups in the late eighteenth century, and in 1874-76 they were forced to abandon their reservation in central Nebraska for a new reservation that became Pawnee County in north-central Oklahoma, where most Skiris live today. Douglas R. Parks is a professor of anthropology and co-director of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University, and is editor of the journal Anthropological Linguistics. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including A Grammar of Pawnee, the two-volume Ceremonies of the Pawnee (Nebraska 1989), the four-volume Traditional Narratives of the Arikara Indians (Nebraska 1991), and Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians (Nebraska 1996). Lula Nora Pratt (1908-2001) was the last fluent speaker of Skiri Pawnee and was a wealth of traditional Pawnee cultural knowledge. Until she passed away in 2001, Pratt worked closely with Parks to compile a record of her language, of which this dictionary is one part. |