The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture by Awakuni-Swetland, Mark
The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture by Awakuni-Swetland, Mark

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture

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Author: Mark Awakuni-Swetland
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The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture by Awakuni-Swetland, Mark

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture

$90.33
The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture by Awakuni-Swetland, Mark

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way: An Introduction to Omaha Language and Culture

$90.33
Author: Mark Awakuni-Swetland
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren Frerichs, and Rory Larson have collaborated with elder speakers, including Alberta Grant Canby, Emmaline Walker Sanchez, Marcella Woodhull Cavou, and Donna Morris Parker, to write this book.

The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbook--teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture--consists of a structured series of lesson plans. It is the result of a generous collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. The method draws on the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of Awakuni-Swetland to illustrate the Omaha values of balance and integration. The contents are shaped into two parts, each of which complements the other--just as the Earth and Sky do.

This textbook features an introduction by Awakuni-Swetland on the history and phonology of the Omaha language; lessons from the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Macy, with a writing system quick sheet; situation quick sheets; lessons on games; lessons on spring, summer, fall, and winter; an Omaha language resource list; and a glossary in the standard Macy orthography of the Omaha language. The textbook also includes cultural lessons in the language by Awakuni-Swetland and lessons from the Omaha language class at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way offers a linguistic foundation for tribal members, students, scholars, and laypersons, featuring Omaha community lessons, the standard Macy orthography, and UNL orthography all under one cover.

Author: Mark Awakuni-Swetland
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 736
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.55lbs
Size: 11.19h x 8.34w x 1.22d
ISBN: 9781496200440

About the Author
Mark Awakuni-Swetland (1956-2015) was an associate professor of anthropology and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, principal co-investigator for the Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary, and a coordinator for the Omaha Language Curriculum Development Project. He is the author of Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building from Memory (Nebraska, 2008) and the editor of the Omaha and Ponca Digital Dictionary.

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