[Linganth] Victoria Howard, Clackamas Chinook

[Catharine Mason]

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce that my edited collection of narratives told by
Victoria Howard and collected by Melville Jacobs is now available in
paperback.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496224118/
I hope that you may enjoy discovering or rediscovering this powerful
collection of historical, cultural, and personal accounts spoken by one of
the last speakers of Clackamas Chinook.

Best wishes,
Catharine

About the Book

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas
initiative <http://recoveringlanguages.unl.edu/>, supported by the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation

Victoria Howard was born around 1865, a little more than ten years after
the founding of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in western Oregon.
Howardʼs maternal grandmother, Wagayuhlen Quiaquaty, was a successful and
valued Clackamas shaman at Grand Ronde, and her maternal grandfather,
Quiaquaty, was an elite Molalla chief. In the summer of 1929 the linguist
Melville Jacobs, student of Franz Boas, requested to record Clackamas
Chinook oral traditions with Howard, which she enthusiastically agreed to
do. The result is an intricate and lively corpus of linguistic and
ethnographic material, as well as rich performances of Clackamas literary
heritage, as dictated by Howard and meticulously transcribed by Jacobs in
his field notebooks. Ethnographical descriptions attest to the traditional
lifestyle and environment in which Howard grew up, while fine details of
cultural and historical events reveal the great consideration and devotion
with which she recalled her past and that of her people.

Catharine Mason has edited twenty-five of Howard’s spoken-word performances
into verse form entextualizations, along with the annotations provided by
Jacobs in his publications of Howard’s corpus in the late 1950s. Mason
pairs performances with biographical, family, and historical content that
reflects Howardʼs ancestry, personal and social life, education, and
worldview. Mason’s study reveals strong evidence of how the artist
contemplated and internalized the complex meanings and everyday lessons of
her literary heritage.

-- 
Catharine Mason, PhD
Research Professor English and Linguistic Ethnography
Université de Caen Normandie
UFR LVE (Modern Languages Department)
14032 CAEN Cedex
France

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