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This is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California's rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the twentieth century, renowned storyteller Hanc'ibyjim (Tom Young) performed Maidu and Atsugewi stories for anthropologist Ronald B. Dixon, who published these stories in 1912. The resulting Maidu Texts presented the stories in numbered block texts that, while serving as a source of linguistic decoding, also reflect the state of anthropological linguistics of the era by not conveying a sense of rhetorical or poetic composition. Sixty years later, noted linguist William Shipley engaged the texts as oral literature and composed a free verse literary translation, which he paired with the artwork of Daniel Stolpe and published in a limited-edition four-volume set that circulated primarily to libraries and private collectors. Here M. Eleanor Nevins and the Weye-ebis Majdy (Keep Speaking Maidu) Language Revitalization Project Team illuminate these important tales in a new way by restoring Maidu elements omitted by William Shipley and by bending the translation to more closely correspond in poetic form to the Maidu original. The beautifully told stories by Hanc'ibyjim are accompanied by Dan Stolpe's intricate illustrations and by personal and pedagogical essays from scholars and Maidu leaders working to revitalize the language. The resulting book is a necessity for language revitalization programs and an excellent model of Indigenous community-university collaboration

Engaging Native American Publics- Front Cover -- Engaging Native American Publics -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Native American languages and linguistic anthropology: from the legacy of salvage anthropology to the promise of linguistic self-determination -- Collaborative linguistic anthropology -- Organization of the book -- "Deep" collaboration -- Circulation -- Scaling publics -- Engaging the future -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Collaboration -- Chapter 2: There's no easy way to talk about language change or language loss: the difficulties and rewards of linguistic collaboration -- Working in close quarters together -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Recontextualizing Kumeyaay oral literature for the twenty-first century -- Other historical sources -- Previous misconceptions -- Kumeyaay oral tradition: creation -- The Heavenly Snake -- Footsteps in the rocks -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: "You shall not become this kind of people": Indigenous political argument in Maidu linguistic text collections -- Sketch of a text trajectory -- Tom Young (Hanc'ibyjim) and Roland Dixon at the boundary of Indigenous and settler publics -- From ethnographic encounter to object of ethno-linguistic science -- From object of science to primordial Native American literature -- From literary paperback to elite visual and literary art for limited circulation -- Fourth conversion to Indigenous projects (relevance of precision in the human sciences) -- Colonial linguistics, text collections and decolonization -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: To "we" (+inclusive) or not to "we" (-inclusive): the CD-ROM Taitaduhaan (our language) and Western Mono future publics -- The Western Mono communities of Central California