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Nakón-i'a wo! Beginning Nakoda

Edited by Vincent Collette
Contributions by Armand McArthur & Wilma Kennedy
Categories: Linguistics, Language & Translation Studies, Indigenous Studies
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Hardcover : 9780889776777, 304 pages, November 2019

Description

Nakón-i’a wo! Beginning Nakoda is a language resource designed to help revitalize and document Nakoda, now spoken in Montana and Saskatchewan. 

Written for beginning learners of Nakoda (also known as Assiniboine), this workbook, arranged thematically, provides a Nakoda/English lexicon, a vocabulary, a table of kinship terms, a glossary of linguistic terminology, and exercises to do after each lesson. This book was made possible with the assistance of Elders and Language Keepers of the Nakoda Nation: Armand McArthur and Wilma Kennedy, Main Consultants; with additional contributions by Pete Bigstone, Leona Kroscamp, Freda O'Watch, and Ken Armstrong.

Awards

  • Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Publishing in Education, 2021
  • Short-listed, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing 2020

Reviews

Winner, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Publishing in Education, 2021
Shortlisted, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing, 2020