Judson's middle initial is incorrectly listed, but that is the only error that I noted in this splendid and important volume.

Also, note that Katharine Judson was the transcriber of the earlier of these two accounts (see below). Both of these shorter versions had been written in English. Lounsbury and Gick contribute to this published corpus with this narration and also include an appendix that includes two previously unpublished versions of the story. Alber, 'Dendrogram and Celestial Tree: Numerical Taxonomy and Variants of the Iroquoian Creation Myth,' Canadian Journal of Native Studies 7:195-221, 1987). This major study of a specific and essential Oneida text, including numerous aspects of linguistic analysis, includes references to the forty earlier translated versions of various Iroquoian creation stories (see Thomas S. Fortunately Gick was able to recover the lost segments from Harvey Antone, 'one of the last few fluent speakers of Oneida' (p. Since that tape was made, 'a large segment of the beginning of the tape was lost' (p. While working in Ontario in 1971, Lounsbury tape-recorded a recitation of this tale by the 96-year-old Demus Elm. The late Floyd Lounsbury and an able student, Bryan Gick, rescued and now have put into print, in Oneida and English, a version of the 'Oneida Creation Story' as told by two of the last fluent speakers of that language. These four works include two extremely important contributions to Native American tales as folk literature. (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. 440, source list.) Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley. (Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2001. xlvi + 337, bibliography, illustrations, maps, 14 Zuni pottery designs.) American Indians: Folk Tales and Legends. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xi + 172, bibliography, illustration.) Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller, 2 nd edition.Trans. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

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