As Long as the Earth Endures: Annotated Miami-Illinois Texts

by David J. Costa

As Long as the Earth Endures is an annotated collection of almost all of the known Native texts in Miami-Illinois, an Algonquian language of Indiana, Illinois, and Oklahoma. These texts, gathered from native speakers of Myaamia, Peoria, and Wea in the 1890s and the early twentieth century, span several genres, such as culture hero stories, trickster tales, animal stories, personal and historical narratives, how-to stories, and translations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496228561
• ISBN13: 9781496228567
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 678 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"