The complete Ahtna poems
As a tribally and federally enrolled member of the Ahtna tribe of Alaska, and as one of the last speakers of the Ahtna language, which is a member of the broader Dine' language family, which includes Navajo, John Smelcer worked with elders from various Ahtna villages to compile, edit, and publi...
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ftproquest:oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:3461356 2023-05-15T13:07:26+02:00 The complete Ahtna poems Smelcer, John E. 2011-01-01 00:00:01.0 http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356 ENG eng State University of New York at Binghamton http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3461356 American studies|American literature|Native American studies|Creative writing thesis 2011 ftproquest 2021-03-13T17:41:52Z As a tribally and federally enrolled member of the Ahtna tribe of Alaska, and as one of the last speakers of the Ahtna language, which is a member of the broader Dine' language family, which includes Navajo, John Smelcer worked with elders from various Ahtna villages to compile, edit, and publish the Ahtna Noun Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide (1998, 2011), which includes forewords by linguists Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, and his late mentor, Ken Hale, who it is said spoke over fifty languages, including several Native American languages. John Smelcer's Alutiiq Noun Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide (2011) includes forewords by H. H. The Dalai Lama, who is himself concerned with the loss of his own Tibetan language, and Chief Marie Smith Jones, who was the last Native speaker of the now extinct Eyak language. (To read either dictionary, click on "dictionaries" at www.johnsmelcer.com). As a poet, John Smelcer has composed almost one hundred poems in Ahtna, which he has also rendered carefully into English. These bilingual poems, informed by mythology, culture, customs, the natural world, experience, and imagination have been published in dozens of journals worldwide. The Complete Ahtna Poems represents the entire corpus of literature ever written or published in the endangered Ahtna language. Thesis ahtna alutiiq eyak Alaska PQDT Open: Open Access Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) Hale ENVELOPE(-86.317,-86.317,-78.067,-78.067) |
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As a tribally and federally enrolled member of the Ahtna tribe of Alaska, and as one of the last speakers of the Ahtna language, which is a member of the broader Dine' language family, which includes Navajo, John Smelcer worked with elders from various Ahtna villages to compile, edit, and publish the Ahtna Noun Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide (1998, 2011), which includes forewords by linguists Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker, and his late mentor, Ken Hale, who it is said spoke over fifty languages, including several Native American languages. John Smelcer's Alutiiq Noun Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide (2011) includes forewords by H. H. The Dalai Lama, who is himself concerned with the loss of his own Tibetan language, and Chief Marie Smith Jones, who was the last Native speaker of the now extinct Eyak language. (To read either dictionary, click on "dictionaries" at www.johnsmelcer.com). As a poet, John Smelcer has composed almost one hundred poems in Ahtna, which he has also rendered carefully into English. These bilingual poems, informed by mythology, culture, customs, the natural world, experience, and imagination have been published in dozens of journals worldwide. The Complete Ahtna Poems represents the entire corpus of literature ever written or published in the endangered Ahtna language. |
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