The Oneida Creation Story

"This exemplary work of scholarship, attractively produced in a maximally useful format, is an important contribution to Iroquoian linguistic studies that will appeal to students and faculty in linguistics, anthropology, folklore, and history, as well as to a general audience interested in American Indians."—Choice

"This is the first time that the Oneida Creation Story, perhaps the most completely documented representation of human and world origins in North America, has been simultaneously reproduced in English and the Oneida language. . . . Lounsbury (Oneida Verb Morhology) and Gick (linguistics, Univ. of British Columbia) have done a great service to Oneida linguistic studies, the discipline of linguistics, and, most importantly, the efforts to preserve the Oneida language."—Library Journal

"This major study of a specific and essential Oneida text, including numerous aspects of linguistic analysis, includes references to the forty earlier translated versions of various Iroquoian creation stories."—Marshall Joseph Becker, Journal of American Folklore