![]() Overall this collection discloses the sometimes hidden connections among genres as well as their importance to language groups of the Southeast. Introductory essays illuminate how they fit into Native American religious and philosophical systems. These texts have been selected to demonstrate particular literary themes and the cultural perspectives that inform them. Henry Willis, a native speaker of Choctaw, is a Choctaw community teacher. A Choctaw Tutorial CD-ROM by Marcia Haag, Loretta Fowler (pp. Marcia Haag is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma. ![]() The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased in A Listening Wind include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past (or "fixed"), genres that have developed alongside these stories, and modern story types that have sometimes supplanted traditional tales and are now enjoying trajectories of their own. Choctaw Language and Culture: Chahta Anumpa by Marcia Haag, Henry Willis Chahta Anumpa: A Grammar of the Choctaw Language. ![]() A whole range of genres and selected texts represent language groups of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Yuchi, Cherokee, Koasati, Houma, Catawba, and Atakapa. ![]() ![]() A Listening Wind, a collection of translated original texts and commentary edited by Marcia Haag, highlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the U.S. ![]()
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