Flutes of fire : an introduction to Native California languages /
A book about the Indigenous languages of California. With significant updates by the author, this is the first new edition of Flutes of Fire in over twenty-five years. New chapters highlight the efforts of language activists in recent times, as well as contemporary writing in several of California&#...
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Berkeley, California :
Heyday,
[2022].
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| Edition: | Revised and updated. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The California mosaic
- California's first languages
- Part I: California languages at work and play: Four portraits
- Song: Overcoming the language barrier
- Coyote talk
- Upriver, downriver: The vocabulary of direction
- Language and the structure of thought
- Part II: Language and history
- What language can tell us about history
- Native Californian names on the land
- History through the words brought to California by the Fort Ross Colony / by Robert L. Oswalt
- Part III: Words
- California counting
- Specialized vocabulary in the languages of native California
- "Slapping with the mouth" and other interesting words: Instrumental prefixes in Kashaya
- Language and social structure
- Songs without words
- Part IV: Language and dominion
- On the origin of California tribal names
- A pine nut by any other name
- Languages under attack / with Vera Mae Frederickson
- Part V: Writing and documenting the California languages
- Ashes, ashes: John Peabody Harrington, then and now
- Writing systems
- Part VI: New speakers carry the torch
- Rebuilding the fire: The advocates of indigenous California language survival
- Stories of language reclamation
- In our own words: Writings in the languages of California.