Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
E-Books
Author/Creator
Loretta Fowler
Discusses pre-contact structures and the techniques used in their construction.
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
Historical note:
Ruth Cuthand was born in Prince Albert, SK in 1954 and grew up near the Blood Reserve in Alberta. Her heritage is Plains Cree and Scots/Irish. Her Aboriginal culture and memories of her childhood experiences are often the inspiration for her art-making practice.Primary reading level storybook.
For use with the storybook Askî and Turtle Island.