The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible Cree and folklore

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In this eagerly anticipated volume Anishinaabekwe poet Louise K

Major events are presented from a Pawnee perspective to capture the outlook of the Echo-Hawk ancestors

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The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible Cree and folkloreFor Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and social worlds and how their translation in turn encodes the profound linguistic and cultural exchange