American Indian Dramaturgy: Situating Native Presence on the American Stage
Theses
Author/Creator
Paul Roland Rathbun
Description
Theatre & Drama Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1996.
Education thesis (M.Ed) -- Saint Mary's University, 1996.
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch