Emil Afraid-Of-Hawk's style (A Personal Impression)

[A.W. Tüting]

Clive,

with regard to those copies pointed to by you, not mentioning Mr. Emil  
Afraid-Of-Hawk seems to be  no wonder, since the booklets are in  
English only, aren't they?
(Ruth Beebe Hill's copy might be of interest, though. BTW, I'd be  
interested to learn the scholars opinion on Hill's work "Hanta Yo!",  
which appears to be 'put on the index' by Native people. I for one had  
liked it a lot, many (30?)  years back, re-kindling my interest in this  
powerful language.)

"No man is an island, entire of itself;..." is a wonderful and  
venerable old text of deepest truth, expressing ideas very familiar to  
Native American people - e.g. Mitakuye oyas'in (but also to Far Eastern  
philosophy, e.g. "Pick up a blade of grass and all the worlds will come  
along with it!"
http://www.fa-kuan.de/PREFACE.HTML, http://www.fa-kuan.de/VORWORT.HTML)

I'm most grateful for Tom mentioning this text, that, IMHO, could as  
well have been composed in, say, Lakota originally.
Clive misun, maybe this example can help me explain what I actually  
wanted to say with my (ill-fitting) term of 'European-style' which  
wasn't in any case meant derogatory with regard to Native people.  
IMVHO, Lakota unfolds its genuine power in sermon/speech-like texts  
like these rather than in epic narration - always reminding me of  
Ancient Greek, Latin etc., the latter having profoundly shaped e.g.  
German (but even Hungarian!) syntax in the sense of abominable  
'Schachtelsatzbildung', a feature since long left behind in English.
Also remember the famous and powerful speech "I have a dream..." which  
could be appropriately given in Lakota as well. (Cf. Lojban .i mi  
pacna... http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban).

Toksa ake

Alfred le miye lo


Alfred

Am 03.07.2006 um 01:08 schrieb Clive Bloomfield:

> (...) and then to "A Libris.com" listing various copies of the book,  
> mentioning Ann Nolan Clark, and the Illustrator Oscar Howe, but not a  
> "peep" (as far as one can see) about the distinguished Lakhota  
> translator Emil Afraid-Of-Hawk! :                                      
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> http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm? 
> qwork=810378&wauth=ann%20nolan%20clark&matches=3&qsort=r&cm_re=works*li 
> sting*title 
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