Micmac (Algonquian) Language Materials

Rand Valentine (jrvalent@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:15:22 -0600


Awhile ago someone posted asking for Micmac language materials. I am new
to this sig so do not know what sort of information has been published
already. But I can tell you, for anyone interested in Algonquian languages
(or more broadly, Algic) which includes:

Abenaki (Eastern, Western)
Arapaho
Atsina
Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Cree (Atikamekw, East, Montagnais, Moose, Naskapi, Plains, Swampy, Woods)
Delaware
Fox-Sauk-Kickapoo
Mahican
Malecite-Passamaquoddy
Massachusett
Menomini
Miami-Illinois
Michif
Micmac
Mohegan-Pequot-Montauk
Munsee
Nanticoke-Conoy
Narragansett
Nantucket
Nipmuck-Pocumtuck
Ojibwe (Algonquin, Chippewa, Nipissing ,Nishnaabemwin, Northern Ojibwe,
Oji-Cree, Ottawa, Saulteaux)
Pamlico
Penobscot
Pequot
Potawatomi
Powhatan
Shawnee
Shinnecok
Unami (Delaware)
Wampanoag
Wiyot
Yurok

Also, if you're interested in Iroquoian languages such as

Mohawk
Seneca
Cayuga
Tuscarora
Onondaga
Oneida
Cherokee
Huron (Wyandot?)

...there is an invaluable newsletter for students of these languages,
called Algonquian & Irouquoian Linguistics. It is published quarterly, and
is available by subscription at a rate of $12 (in Canada, Cdn funds; in the
US, US funds), by writing the editor

John D. Nichols
Department of Native Studies
532 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T-2N2

Make your check (cheque for Canadians!) payable to Algonquian & Iroquoian
Linguistics. This newsletter contains various kinds of announcements,
dissertation abstracts, conference paper abstracts, occasional short
articles, and a running bibliography of publications pertaining to all
aspects of Algonquian and Iroquoian linguistics, including theory, history,
and education. It's a great newsletter, because of the hard work of its
editor.

Now, on to Micmac...

Here's a few Micmac references I have from my own running bibliography
(based on A&IL's), and mostly having to do with articles pertaining to my
interests, ethnopoetics and textual studies.

Cheers.

Rand Valentine
Dept of Linguistics/American Indian Studies Program
U of Wisconsin- Madison
Madison, WI 53706

MICMAC REFERENCES

Battiste, Marie. 1985. An historical investigation of the social and
cultural consequences of Micmac literacy. In Promoting Native Writing
Systems in Canada. Barbara Burnaby, ed. Pp. 7-16. Toronto: OISE Press/The
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Dawe-Sheppard, Audrey and John Hewson. 1990. Person and gender hierarchies
in Micmac. Journal of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association 12:1-12

DeBlois, Albert D. 1990. Micmac texts. Canadian Ethnology Service Paper 117.

Fell, Barry. 1992. The Micmac manuscripts. Epigraphic Society Occasional
Papers 21:295-320.

Francis, Bernie and Elizabeth Paul, eds. 1986. A'tukwagnn: Micmac storeis.
Micmac Writers' Workshop 3. Fredericton, New Brunswick: Micmac-Maliseet
Institute, University of New Brunswick.

Gerdts, Donna B. 1987. A relational typology of desideratives. In Native
American Languages and Grammatical Typology: Papers from a Conference at
the University of Chicago, April 22, 1987. Paul D. Kroeber and Robert E.
Moore, eds. Pp. 74-104. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.

Hewson, John. 1991. Verbal derivation in Micmac. Journal of the Atlantic
Provinces Linguistic Association 13:21-33.

Jerome, Ramona, John Martin, Gertrude Martin, and Roger Martin. n.d.
Gesgapegiag. Anne MacWhirter, ed. n.p.

Leavitt, Robert. 1983. Storytelling as language curriculum. In Acts du
quatorzieme congress des Algonquinistes, William Cowan, ed. pp. 27-33.
Ottawa: Carleton University Press.

Metallic, Emmanuel and Alphonse Metallic, eds. 1985. Atugwagann: Micmac
stories. Fredericton: Micmac-Maliseet Institute, University of New
Brunswick.

Milliea, Mildred, ed. 1985. Atogoagann: Micmac stories. Fredericton:
Micmac-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick.

Mitchell, Lily. 1976. Oapos story. Tawow 5.2:26-27.

Pacifique, (p?re). 1910. Souvenir d'un IIIe centenaire en pays Micmac / Sis
gasgemtelnaga-nipongegeoei migoitetemagani oigatigen / Souvenir of the
Micmac tercentenary celebration, [by (p?re) Pacifique]. Ste-Anne de
Ristigouche.

Patterson, Lisa, ed. 1987. The Mi'kmaq treaty handbook. Sydney, Nova
Scotia: Native Communications Society of Nova Scotia.

Prince, J. Dyneley. 1907. A Micmac manuscript. Interntional Congress of
Americanist Proceedings 15.1:87-124.

Schmidt, David. 1992. Micmac hieroglyphs in Non-Christian texts. Paper
presented at 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Society,
San Francisco, CA, Dec 2-6, 1992.

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. 1988. Stories of the six worlds: Micmac legends.
Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus.

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. 1991. The old man told us: excerpts from Micmac
history, 1500-1950. Halifax: Nimbus.