Dictionary, Lexicon, Glossary

Book review of: Aboriginal English by J.M. Arthur. Review located by scrolling to page 227.

Website searches English and Mi'kmaq words and offers pronunciation.

Includes brief definitions for terms such as Indian, Métis, Inuit, First Nation, band, and reserve, general guidelines and map of cultural groups at time of contact.

2nd edition.

Book review of: Alyawarr to English Dictionary compiled by J. Green. Review located by scrolling to page 167.

Book reviews of: Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary edited by Gretchen M. Bataille and Laurie Lisa, Sifters: Native American Women's Lives edited by Theda Perdue, Te Ata: Chickasaw Storyteller, American Treasure by Richard Green, Esther Ross: Stillaguamish Champion by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, Loose Cannons by Paula Gunn Allen, Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.

Divided into the four seasons with Ojibwe terminology, impacts and stories, and discussion notes and anecdotes associated with each. Forms part of the Climate Change Adaptation Planning Toolkit for Indigenous Communities.

Introduces double vowel chart, questions, phrases, colours, family members, animals, trees, food, weather, seasons, directions, races, stages of life, medicines, plant parts, numbers, time, days of the week, months, body parts, reservations, and miscellaneous.

Book review of: Bibliographical Dictionary of American Indians to 1900 by Carl Waldman.

Includes citations for language and dialects from Labrador to Aleutian Islands including Aleut and Kodiak; some reference to vocabulary and dictionaries available prior to 1887.

Initiated by the Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta, the Aboriginal Talking Dictionary project was a vehicle for the formal recognition of Native values and traditions.

Book review of: Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains by Theodore Binnema. Out of the Background: Readings on Canadian Native History by Ken Coates and Robin Fisher (Editors). Gay Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Myths from Arapaho to the Zuni: An Anthology by Kim Elledge (Editor). E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by Carole Gerso and Veronica Strong-Boag.

Book reviews of: Legends of our Times: Native Cowboy Life by Morgan Baillargeon and Leslie Tepper. The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America by Conlin Callway (Editor). Women in Trouble: Connecting Women's Law Violations to Their Histories of Abuse by Elizabeth Cormack. Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon: Critical Edition by Ives Goddard (Editor). White Man's Law: Native People in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Jurisprudence by Sidney L. Harring.

Book reviews of 13 books: The Collected Works of Edward Sapir, Volume V edited by William Bright. Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders by Julie Cruikshank (in collaboration with Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith & Annie Ned). Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspe. Blackfoot Grammar by Donald G. Frantz. Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes by Donald G. Frantz and Norma-Jean Russell. Californian Indian Nights complied by Edward W.

First two pages gives list of Kamloops Wawa citations and related texts which include information about the history of Chinook jargon. Preface quotes from the history of Chinook jargon as described in James Constantine Pilling's "Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages." Phonetic Alphabet; Pronunciation. Chinook Rudiments: I. Numerals; II. Adjectives; III. Pronouns; IV. Verbs; V. Adverbs; VI. Ononmatopaeia. Remarks - Chinook Vocabulary: 1. The 163 original words; 2. Other Chinook Words; 3. H. B. French words; 4. Religious words; 5. Common English Words; 6.

Booklet contains approximately 300 words in three columns: Chinook; Chinook shorthand; and English.

Historical note:

This version has similar handwriting to Father LeJeune's "Chinook Vocabulary, Chinook-English" (2nd edition) printed in Kamloops in 1892. The content varies, however.

Book review of Chinuk Wawa: Kakwa nsayka ulman-tilixam ɬaska munk munkkəmtəks nsayka / As Our Elders Teach Us to Speak It by the Confederated Tribes of Grande Ronde. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 199.

Contents include Methodist hymns in Oneida and English, and some in Oneida only.

Book review of: Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary by Michael Forescue.

Book review of: Comparative Eskimo Dictionary With Aleut Cognates by Michael Fortescue, Steven Jacobson, Lawrence Kaplan.

The introduction states that "the following vocabularies are presented about 211 words of one or more dialiects of every Indian language spoken on the Pacific slope from the Columbia River north to the Tshilikat River". A map of the distribution of these languages is appended.

Discusses terms related to personal effectiveness, interpersonal relationships, leadership, and achieving business results. Under each topic includes checklists for achievement of goals and areas for further development.

Book review of: Cree: Language of the Plains/nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pikiskwēwin by Jean Okimāsis and Solomon Ratt.

Book review of: Cree Words compiled by Arok Wolvengrey.

First phase of an archival project providing biographies of people whose death occurred between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

Book review of: A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee by Jack B. Martin and Margaret McKane Mauldin. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book review of: Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by J. M. Bumstead.

Text in French only; provides short biographical sketches.

Discussion of the benefits of the Yuchi language project versus the dictionary project, in an effort to find the best method to preserve the Yuchi language.

Book review of: Eastern and Central Arrernte to English Dictionary compiled by John Henderson and Veronica Dobson. Review located by scrolling to page 233.