{"product_id":"clackamas-chinook-performance-art-9781496230416","title":"Clackamas Chinook Performance Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Victoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon. Howard's maternal grandmother, Wagayuhlen Quiaquaty, was a successful and valued Clackamas shaman at Grand Ronde, and her maternal grandfather, Quiaquaty, was an elite Molalla chief. In the summer of 1929 the linguist Melville Jacobs, student of Franz Boas, requested to record Clackamas Chinook oral traditions with Howard, which she enthusiastically agreed to do. The result is an intricate and lively corpus of linguistic and ethnographic material, as well as rich performances of Clackamas literary heritage, as dictated by Howard and meticulously transcribed by Jacobs in his field notebooks. Ethnographical descriptions attest to the traditional lifestyle and environment in which Howard grew up, while f\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important and delightful contribution to the study of Native American ethnopoetics and verbal art. In Mason’s careful ethnopoetic renderings of the narratives of raconteur Victoria Howard we hear her voice, as never before, as she tells the personal and cultural stories that compose this wonderful corpus of the Molalla-Clackamas narratives that emerged from her collaboration with Jacobs.”—Paul V. Kroskrity, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Legacy of Dell Hymes: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality, and Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The Clackamas Chinook narratives by Victoria Howard (1865-1930) evoke tribal traditions, values, and human experiences of the tribes of the Western Oregon Grande Ronde. More than sixty years following the publication of Melville Jacob’s original publication, Catharine Mason’s selection from Howard’s Clackamas corpus, presents for republication a remarkable selection of well-crafted texts taken from an almost forgotten vocal performance artist accessible to both scholars and Chinookan descendants and members of the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. This new and updated collection will provide a source of reading enjoyment as well as a significant contribution to American Northwest Coast oral traditions and literatures.”—Gus Palmer Jr., editor of \u003ci\u003eWhen Dream Bear Sings: Native Literatures of the Southern Plains\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drawing on developments in ethnolinguistics, ethnopoetics, and narratology, Catharine Mason offers a beautifully presented, and fully annotated edition and verse translation of a selection of the works of Victoria Howard, one of the great North American storytellers. Mason’s respectful handling of these performances gives full recognition to the necessity for reading\/hearing them in consultation with the communities whose ancestors were their creators.”—John Leavitt, author of \u003ci\u003eLinguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern Thought\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Interpreting, Editing, and Valorizing Traditional Works from Ethnographical Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePersonal Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Wagʷə́t\u003cbr\u003e Náyma ganúłayt wagəškix (I Lived with My Mother’s Mother)\u003cbr\u003e Summer in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e My Grandmother Never Explained Childbirth to Me\u003cbr\u003e Weeping about a Dead Child\u003cbr\u003e A Molale Hunter Who Was Never Frightened\u003cbr\u003e A Shaman Doctored Me for My Eyes\u003cbr\u003e Ičə́čġmam ganẋátẋ aġa Dušdaq ningidə́layt (I Was Ill, Dúšdaq Doctored Me)\u003cbr\u003e Náyka kʷalíwi wágəlxt (I and My Sister-Cousin)\u003cbr\u003e A Tualatin Woman Shaman and Transvestite\u003cbr\u003e A Shaman at My Mother’s Last Illness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistorical Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spearfishing at Grand Ronde\u003cbr\u003e Slaughtering of Chinook Women\u003cbr\u003e Captives Escape Snake Indians\u003cbr\u003e Wálxayu ičámxix gałẋílayt (Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There)\u003cbr\u003e Wišə́liq išq’íxanapx gašdašgúqam (Two Maidens, Two Stars Came to Them)\u003cbr\u003e Wásusgani and Wačínu\u003cbr\u003e Inventions and New Customs as Sources of Amusement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCultural Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Išknúłmapx (Two Grass Widows)\u003cbr\u003e Restrictions on Women\u003cbr\u003e Laughing at Missionaries\u003cbr\u003e The Honorable Milt\u003cbr\u003e Išk’áškaš škáwxaw gašdəẋuẋ (Two Children, Two Owls, They Became)\u003cbr\u003e Joshing during a Spirit-Power Dance\u003cbr\u003e Fun-Dances Performed by Visitors\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409239515479,"sku":"9781496230416","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496230416.jpg?v=1730506097","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/clackamas-chinook-performance-art-9781496230416","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}