The Oneida creation story
- Title
- The Oneida creation story / Demus Elm and Harvey Antone ; translated and edited by Floyd G. Lounsbury and Bryan Gick.
- Published by
- Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2000.
- Author
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- 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
- Genre/Form
- Folklore.
- Legends (texts)
- Contents
- History and Introduction -- The Elm-Antone Creation Story in Comparative and Historical Context (by Anthony Wonderley) -- The Oneida Creation Story.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- "The Oneida creation story has never been published in the Oneida language"--Pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-172).