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Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories

by Virginia R. Beavert
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780295748245
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Washington Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press
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  • Pages: 336
  • Original Price: GBP 25.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 840 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Indigenous, Native American Studies, and United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (OR, WA)

An expanded collection of foundational Yakama stories

Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming of human beings when animals were like people, the stories present characters and motifs that paint a bigger picture of the world as Yakama ancestors knew it.

The original edition of Anakú Iwachá featured stories that Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the Ichishkíin language that were collected and translated into English by renowned linguist and scholar Virginia Beavert. This new edition adds a preface from the Yakama Nation and essays on the history of the project and on Ichishkíin-language education. It includes four additional legends in Ichishkíin and English, annotations, an updated glossary, and more artwork by Tribal artists, helping readers, teachers, and students engage with the legends as teaching and learning tools and as a precious gift to current and future Yakama generations.

Beavert, Virginia R.: - Virginia Beavert, PhD, a member of the Yakama Nation and native speaker of Sahaptin, is a 2006 recipient of the Washington Governor's Heritage Award; 2007 Central Washington University Alumna of the Year; 2008 recipient of the Ken Hale prize of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas; and 2008 recipient of a Distinguished Service Award, University of Oregon. She has been a professor, director of the Sahaptin Language Program, and scholar-in-residence at Heritage University in Toppenish, Washington, on the Yakama Indian Reservation, since 1991. She is coauthor of Ichishkíin Sinwit Yakama / Yakima Sahaptin Dictionary (University of Washington Press, 2009).

Jacob, Michelle M.: - Michele M. Jacob is professor of Indigenous studies and co-director of the Sapsik'ʷalá (Teacher) Education Program in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (University of Arizona Press, 2016), and co-editor of Anakú Iwachá Yakama Stories and Legends, 2nd Edition (University of Washington Press, 2021) and On Indian Ground: A Return to Indigenous Knowledge-Generating Hope, Leadership and Sovereignty through Education in the Northwest (Information Age Publishing, 2020).

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