ANTH 493: Linguistic Anthropology

Here’s a link to Spirit of the Fire:  http://keetoowahsociety.org/video.htm

Here is the NPR report on the Rosetta Stone Chitimacha project:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123220585

Here is our placemat for the lunar cycle.  pdf file prints at 11×17.

MoonPhases pdf file

Here’s some more on the Lord’s Prayer.  Here’s our copy from the Phoenix:

LordsPrayerCherPhoenix0221828

We looked at a couple of versions of the Phoenix from 1828 and we came up with this transliteration:

LordsPrayerTransCherPhoenix012610

We have this bit of tentative work on the version in Mathew:

LordsPrayerMathew012610

Consider the bingo gloss worksheet pdf:  ActBingoPurdueGloss012510  Try to develop a sense of the tsi-/a- 1st and 3rd persons, the tsi-/ga- 1st and 3rd persons, the g-/a- 1st and 3rd persons, and the g-/g- first and third persons.

Here are the pics as cards in pdf format: CardsBingoAct001

CardsBingoAct002

CardsBingoAct003.ai

CardsBingoAct004.ai

and a zipped file with the sound tracks will not upload.  The pics are from

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/

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Contributors:

Drawings are contributed by Travis Kain (University of Iowa, 1998), Sayuri Kubota (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2002), Yukiko Hatasa (University of Iowa, 2002), Shigeru Eguchi (Columbia University, 2002), Hilohumi Yamamoto (University of Tsukuba, 1999), Nobuaki Takahashi (University of Iowa, 2002), BJ Hill (Fukushima, 2003)

Here are some links for Cherokee 310:  Introduction to Cherokee Literature.

Cherokee Phoenix accessible from 

accessible from http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/tei-news-idx.pl

Georgia Historic Newspapers.  We are looking at the Lord’s Prayer, one of the first texts published in Cherokee in the Cherokee Phoenix.  The Lord’s Prayer still resonates in the community:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkWnF2AtgE YouTube Video of Jerry Wolfe leading the Lord’s Prayer for a Blue Ridge Parkway event.

The New Testament Itse Kanohedv dadlohisdv is available online at http://www.cherokeenewtestament.org/ and you can look up Mathew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4 there.

Mooney is on sacred texts com http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/cher/motc/index.htm

Here’s one of our first placemats.  Prints on 11×17 from the pdf:

Cherokee language pdf:  ColNumAnim

Here’s the sound file mp3:  TBAnimShapeColorNum

Here is a pdf of numbers drawn from The Cherokee Phoenix 1828:  DigowelodiDisesdiCherPhoenix02281828

Notice that the number 21 is so’itsone ‘one the third’ – the old way of counting, calling 21 ‘the third time that one appears,’ maybe.

Here are sound files, mp3, for the numbers:

TBCardNumbers1_30

TBCardNumbers30_100

TBCardNumbers100_1000