Funny Little Stories
Funny Little Stories is a collection of nine stories representing the Plains Cree, Woods Cree, and Swampy Cree dialects, with a pronunciation guide and a Cree-to-English glossary.
Students and Elders come together in this volume to offer samples of three distinct genres of Cree storytelling: word play, humorous accounts of life experiences, and traditional stories about Wisahkecahk, the trickster-hero.
Each story is illustrated and is presented in both Standard Roman Orthography and syllabics, with English translation.

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Funny Little Stories
Funny Little Stories is a collection of nine stories representing the Plains Cree, Woods Cree, and Swampy Cree dialects, with a pronunciation guide and a Cree-to-English glossary.
Students and Elders come together in this volume to offer samples of three distinct genres of Cree storytelling: word play, humorous accounts of life experiences, and traditional stories about Wisahkecahk, the trickster-hero.
Each story is illustrated and is presented in both Standard Roman Orthography and syllabics, with English translation.

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Funny Little Stories

Funny Little Stories

by Arok Wolvengrey (Editor)
Funny Little Stories

Funny Little Stories

by Arok Wolvengrey (Editor)

Paperback(Bilingual)

$19.95 
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Funny Little Stories is a collection of nine stories representing the Plains Cree, Woods Cree, and Swampy Cree dialects, with a pronunciation guide and a Cree-to-English glossary.
Students and Elders come together in this volume to offer samples of three distinct genres of Cree storytelling: word play, humorous accounts of life experiences, and traditional stories about Wisahkecahk, the trickster-hero.
Each story is illustrated and is presented in both Standard Roman Orthography and syllabics, with English translation.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780889771857
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Publication date: 06/08/2007
Series: First Nations Language Readers , #2
Edition description: Bilingual
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Arok Wolvengrey is Professor of Algonquian Languages and Linguistics at First Nations University of Canada in Regina.
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