Many of these narratives, gathered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were obtained or published only in English translation. Although this is the case with many Arapaho stories, extensive Arapaho-language texts exist that have never before been published—until now. Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers gives new life to these manuscripts, celebrating Arapaho oral narrative traditions in all the richness of their original language.
Told by Paul Moss (1911-1995), a highly respected storyteller and ceremonial leader, these twelve texts introduce us to an immensely rich literature. As works of an oral tradition, they had until now remained beyond the reach of those who do not speak the Arapaho language. Here, for the first time, these outstanding examples of Indigenous North American literature are printed in their original language (in the standard orthography used on the Wind River Reservation) but made accessible to a wider audience through English translation and comprehensive introductions, notes, commentaries and an Arapaho-English glossary. The Arapaho traditions chosen for this anthology tell of hunting, scouting, fighting, horse-stealing, capture and escape, friendly encounters between tribes, diplomacy and war, conflict with the U.S. and battles with its troops. They also include accounts of vision quests and religious rites, the fate of an Arapaho woman captured by Utes, and Arapaho uses of the "Medicine Wheel"in the Bighorn Mountains.
The Arapaho Language is the definitive reference grammar of an endangered Algonquian language. Arapaho differs strikingly from other Algonquian languages, making it particularly relevant to the study of historical linguistics and the evolution of grammar. Andrew Cowell and Alonzo Moss Sr. document Arapaho's interesting features, including a pitch-based accent system with no exact Algonquian parallels, radical innovations in the verb system, and complex contrasts between affirmative and non-affirmative statements. Cowell and Moss detail strategies used by speakers of this highly polysynthetic language to form complex words and illustrate how word formation interacts with information structure. They discuss word order and discourse-level features, treat the special features of formal discourse style and traditional narratives, and list gender-specific particles, which are widely used in conversation. Appendices include full sets of inflections for a variety of verbs. Arapaho is spoken primarily in Wyoming, with a few speakers in Oklahoma. The corpus used in The Arapaho Language spans more than a century of documentation, including multiple speakers from Wyoming and Oklahoma, with emphasis on recent recordings from Wyoming. The book cites approximately 2,000 language examples drawn largely from natural discourse - either recorded spoken language or texts written by native speakers. With The Arapaho Language, Cowell and Moss have produced a comprehensive document of a language that, in its departures from its nearest linguistic neighbors, sheds light on the evolution of grammar.
THE STORY: Three black men in their late twenties, friends since high school, meet in a playground to play basketball, hang out and talk. Jello is a struggling writer, and the others tease him about living off of his parents and not having a real
The poems in this book were written between the ages of 14 and 22 years old. This book started during my youth when I was sentenced to Juvenile Life with the Department of Juvenile Justice system. Long nights, bad dreams and a temper that caused bad judgment, I was encouraged to write what I feel. It is the poems in this book that helped me through so much and allowed me to express what I feel in an exceptional way. I never knew writing my first poem would be the beginning of a book that told a different part of my life through each page. So I wrote this book for those who dont understand me, for others who are misunderstood, and to express what I have felt through the toughest times a teenager can imagine. This book is to show lost souls can be found and those with no soul still have a chance.
A group of influential Americans, who call themselves The Mirror, secretly meet in Washington, D.C. to discuss the final phase of a plan to manipulate the upcoming presidential election in order to have the first African-American elected as President of the United States. As the final phase of the plan is put into motion, one of the presidential candidates, Rev. Martin, is caught up in a sex scandal and ends up committing suicide. The FBI activates its most covert agent, Frank Sharpe, to investigate the matter, because the Director of the FBI has reason to believe that the CIA, or some element deep inside the CIA, might have had a hand in the scandal. Agent Sharpe quickly figures out that something is amiss and begins his quest to sort out who is behind the framing and why. However, the closer Agent Sharpe gets to answering the questions the further he finds himself away from the truth as death and deception is all around him. Soon, the lives of The Mirror are mysteriously in danger and, in a race against time, Agent Sharpe's own life is in danger as he digs deeper and deeper into Washington politics and the allure of power and money. Unsure of whether a lone group, the CIA, a combination of the two or some outside force is trying to manipulate the upcoming election, Agent Sharpe knows that he has to solve the puzzle before it's too late, otherwise, the very legitimacy of our democracy will be at risk.
The uprising is now. Shoeshine is intending to finally take a stand against the white man. But first he must attend to the problems of his deplinished neighborhood. A neighborhood that is caught between the jaws of violence and extreme treachery. Will the surrounding negros ever come to trust one another and settle their bickering disputes or remain torn as a people and defeated once again by their oppressors? Join Shoeshine and the gang as they battle personal demons and visible threats that persist to kill them all.
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