..., two book reviews. $46.00 paper.) 2000 Hinton, Leanne 1994 Flutes of Fire: Essays on California Indian Languages . Heyday Books. Book Reviews Indigenous Literacies of the Americas: Language Planning from the Bot- tom Up. Edited...

...Wesley Y. Leonard Defying Maliseet Language Death: Emergent Vitalities of Language, Culture, and Identity in Eastern Canada. By Perley Bernard C. . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2011 . xiv + 235 pp., acknowledgments, notes on terminology and orthography, map, notes...

... own research that emphasizes the following themes: the importance of place and regional context in studies of language use; cleavages and connections between writing and speaking; language acquisition at the interface of the institutional and quotidian in colonial society; and language use as a means...

... the conquest, spoke Nahuatl as a language of commerce and communication in order to operate among a diverse group of indigenous ethnicities. This article investigates the use of Nahuatl among nonindigenous persons who were not a part of early evangelization. Drawing on dozens of documents, this article...

... and writers, as well as the passage of time. And the Nahuatl on the periphery showed archaic traits left over from the language's spread in preconquest times. The plasticity of Nahuatl is a key factor in its survival and success. Copyright 2012 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2012 Conclusion...

...Melissa Rinehart Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes . By Buss James J. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 328 pp., illustrations, introduction, epilogue, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, acknowledgments . $34.95...

..., I attempt to reconstruct preconquest practices through postconquest filters as well as to illuminate the ways in which local traditions coalesced with European practices and concepts. The study of body language illustrates broader phenomena related to change and continuity in the postcontact era...

... Dictionary of Nahuatl . Austin: University of Texas Press. Karttunen, Frances, and James Lockhart 1976 Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period . University of California Publications in Linguistics,No. 85. Berkeley: University of California Press...

..., 1999.) The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift, and Re- vitalization. By Susan Garzón, R. McKenna Brown, Julia Becker Richards, and Wuqu’ Ajpub’. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998...

...Loretta A. Cormier Comparative Arawakan Histories: Rethinking Language Family and Culture Area in Amazonia. Edited by Jonathan D. Hill and Fernando Santos-Granero. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. viii + 340 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, maps, tables, figures, references, index...

... is particularly notable, allowing the English-language reader to ‘‘hear’’ the Cree themselves speak through the text. The emphasis throughout is relatively pragmatic; more abstract analy- ses are not the subject of this work...

...- ments are sound and well supported. Niezen’s use of translated transcripts from the Cree radio program Chischaiyu Aitimuum the mind of an elder is particularly notable, allowing the English-language reader to ‘‘hear...

... of the region to Christianity, or treats the adoption of literacy as a sign of cultural transformation, it is argued here that the adoption and spread of native-language literacy in southern New England was one element of a pragmatic strategy that reflected and responded to the natives' multilingual new world...

..., references, index, CD-ROM. $50.00 paper.) Paul Otto, George Fox University Ethnohistorical research of the Hudson Valley peoples has traditionally been hindered by the loss of many Dutch records, especially from before 1647, and by the language barrier that the extant Dutch records pose to scholars...

...Sergio Romero The textual sources of indigenous Christianities in Guatemala embody a complex articulation of native thought, European language ideologies, and the diachronic development of the Christianization of different areas of Mesoamerica. The evangelization of the K'iche' became a model...

.... Pp. 165 -82. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Late Nahuatl Testaments from the Toluca Valley: Indigenous-Language Ethnohistory in the Mexican Independence Period Miriam Melton-Villanueva, University of California, Los Angeles Caterina Pizzigoni, Columbia University Abstract...

... firearms. For both groups, English was the language of schooling, prosperity, and power. In our new era of globalization, this has intensified, if anything, worldwide. However, while schooling effectively replaced the Irish and American Indian languages with English, Coleman says both Irish...

.... Part three, ‘‘Peoples, Animals, and Land reviews the legacy of Jesup’s contributions to our knowledge of the natural history (Robert S. Hoff- mann), languages (Michael E. Krauss), and prehistory (Theodore F. Schurr and Douglas C. Wallace; Sergei A. Arutinov) of the North Pacific. It un- derscores key...

...Mckelvey Kelly Forty Narratives in the Wyandot Language . By John L. Steckley ( Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2020 . 672 pp. $44.95 paperback.). Copyright 2022 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2022 Many people have heard of the concept of dead languages...

... the copying of old books from the early part of the eighteenth century. However, this royal order also included the translation and recording of vocabularies from as many new languages of the Spanish colonies as possible. In Central America, the translation of a predetermined list of a few hundred Spanish...