The Oneida Creation Story – Hardcover

Description

The Oneida Creation Story is the oldest tradition of the Onyota’aka (People of the Standing Stone) and is one of the greatest pieces of oral literature of Native North America. Ancient elements of Iroquoian cosmology are the heart of the saga: Sky-world, the fall of Sky-woman, the creation of Earth upon Turtle’s back, and the creation of mankind and early society by the twins. Various versions have been passed down from generation to generation, but the story has never before been published in the Oneida language. The Oneida Creation Story makes this majestic and beautiful story available in both Oneida and English for the first time. This special bilingual edition also features earlier translated versions of the Creation Story, a discussion of its cultural and historical contexts by Oneida Indian historian Anthony Wonderley, and lexicons cross-referenced to the story.

This is the first time the Oneida Creation Story has been published in the Oneida language and  translated into English.  Written by Demus Elm and Harvey Antone and translated and edited by Floyd G. Lounsbury and Bryan Gick.  Published for the Oneida Indian Nation by Yorkshire Press Solumbia, SC (2000).  Hardcover copies are rare and this one is in like new condition.

Part I includes the Oneida Creation story, history and introduction, The Elm-Antone Creation Story in comparative and historical context by Anthony Wonderly.

Part II includes Lexicons by phrase, word, and stem.