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The Oneida creation story

Title
The Oneida creation story / Demus Elm and Harvey Antone ; translated and edited by Floyd G. Lounsbury and Bryan Gick.
Author
Elm, Demus.
Publication
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Antone, Harvey.
  • Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn.
  • Gick, Bryan.
Description
x, 172 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  • "The Oneida Creation Story is the oldest tradition of the Onyota'aka (People of the Standing Stone) and is one of the greatest pieces of oral literature of Native North American. Ancient elements of Iroquoian cosmology are the heart of the saga: Sky-world, the fall of Sky-woman, the creation of Earth upon Turtle's back, and the creation of mankind and early society by the twins. Various versions have been passed down from generation to generation, but the story has never before been published in the Oneida language. The Oneida Creation Story makes this story available in both Oneida and English for the first time.
  • This special bilingual edition also features earlier translated versions of the Creation Story, a discussion of its cultural and historical contexts by Oneida Indian historian Anthony Wonderley, and lexicons cross-referenced to the story."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Sources of American Indian oral literature
Uniform Title
Sources of American Indian oral literature
Subject
  • Oneida mythology
  • Creation > Mythology
  • Oneida Indians > Folklore
  • 18.91 American Indian languages
  • Oneida Indians
  • Oneida (taal)
  • Schepping
  • Mythologie
  • Oneida (Indiens) > Folklore
  • Oneida (langue) > Textes
Genre/Form
  • Folklore.
  • Legends (texts)
Note
  • "The Oneida creation story has never been published in the Oneida language"--Pref.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172).
Contents
History and Introduction -- The Elm-Antone Creation Story in Comparative and Historical Context (by Anthony Wonderley) -- The Oneida Creation Story.
ISBN
  • 0803267428
  • 9780803267428
LCCN
00024446
OCLC
  • ocm43561980
  • 43561980
  • SCSB-1136677
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library