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  title info:
    title: Xiipúktan (First of all)
    sub title: three views of the origins of the Quechan people
  name:
    name part: Bryant, George
    name part: 1921-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Miller, Amy
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: author of dialog.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  genre: Folklore.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    copyright date: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation myth forms the backdrop against which much of the tribe's extensive oral literature may be understood. At one time there were almost as many different versions of the Quechan creation story as there were Quechan families. Now few people remember them. This volume, presented in the Quechan language with facing-column translation, provides three views of the origins of the Quechan people. One synthesizes narrator George Bryant's childhood memories and later research. The second is based upon J.P. Harrington's A Yuma Account of Origins (1908). The third provides a modern view of the origins of the Quechan, beginning with the migration from Asia to the New World and ending with the settlement of the Yuman tribes at their present locations. Publication of this book is made possible by the Institute of Museum and Library Services Native American / Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program grant number MN-00-13-0025-13. This collection is for the Quechan people and will also interest linguists, anthropologists, oral literature specialists, and anyone curious about Native American culture."--Publisher's website.
  table of contents: Xiipúktan (First of All) Authors' biographies -- Dedication -- Part I: Acknowledgements and Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Quechan Account of Origins -- The Quechan Legend of the Creation -- The Migration of the Yuman Tribes -- From English to Quechan -- From recording to manuscript -- Alphabet -- Grammar -- Conventions -- References -- Part II: The Quechan Legend of the Creation -- Retold in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Part III: A Quechan Account of Origins -- Retold in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Part IV: The Migration of the Yuman Tribes -- Told in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Notes Xiipúktan (First of All) Authors' biographies -- Dedication -- Part I: Acknowledgements and Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Quechan Account of Origins -- The Quechan Legend of the Creation -- The Migration of the Yuman Tribes -- From English to Quechan -- From recording to manuscript -- Alphabet -- Grammar -- Conventions -- References -- Part II: The Quechan Legend of the Creation -- Retold in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Part III: A Quechan Account of Origins -- Retold in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Part IV: The Migration of the Yuman Tribes -- Told in the Quechan language by George Bryant -- Notes.
  note: George Bryant ; linguistic work by Amy Miller.
  note: "World Oral Literature Project"--Cover.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Yuma Indians
    topic: Origin
  subject:
    topic: Yuma Indians
    genre: Folklore
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: United States
    topic: State & Local
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Yuma Indians
  classification: E99.Y94 B793 2013eb
  classification: 973.0497
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    origin info:
      publisher: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, ©2013
    physical description:
      extent: 210 pages
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  record info:
    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 140408
    record change date: 20191021080135.0
    record identifier: in00004066376
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng