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Yotsi’tsishon and the Language of the Seed in the Haudenosaunee Story of Earth’s Creation

Yotsi’tsishon and the Language of the Seed in the Haudenosaunee Story of Earth’s Creation Kanyen’keha and Onoñda’gega’ versions of the Haudenosaunee story of Earth’s creation transcribed in the late 1880s by J. N. B. Hewitt contain ethnobotanical detail not present in many other recorded versions of the story. They also, especially the version told by Skanyatarí:yo John Arthur Gibson, build nuanced actors and articulate the negotiations of relationship through dialogue, imagery, and arcs of naming. Using close readings of these versions, I argue that the narrative arc of biome, as described through ethnobotanical detail, and of the story’s dynamic actors, as described through the poetic devices present in fuller versions, inform one another. The intersection of these arcs encodes a matrix of human responses to catastrophic climate change specific to the narrative’s home biome. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png English Language Notes Duke University Press

Yotsi’tsishon and the Language of the Seed in the Haudenosaunee Story of Earth’s Creation

Adams, Amber Meadow; Gómez, Leila
English Language Notes , Volume 58 (1) – Apr 1, 2020
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Abstract

Kanyen’keha and Onoñda’gega’ versions of the Haudenosaunee story of Earth’s creation transcribed in the late 1880s by J. N. B. Hewitt contain ethnobotanical detail not present in many other recorded versions of the story. They also, especially the version told by Skanyatarí:yo John Arthur Gibson, build nuanced actors and articulate the negotiations of relationship through dialogue, imagery, and arcs of naming. Using close readings of these versions, I argue that the narrative arc of biome, as described through ethnobotanical detail, and of the story’s dynamic actors, as described through the poetic devices present in fuller versions, inform one another. The intersection of these arcs encodes a matrix of human responses to catastrophic climate change specific to the narrative’s home biome.

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English Language Notes – Duke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2020

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    Adams, Amber Meadow
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    Adams, Amber Meadow
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    Adams, Amber Meadow
  • Gibson, John Arthur
    Buerger, Geoffrey E.
  • The Iroquois
    Campbell, Joseph
  • This Island, the World on Turtle’s Back
    Fenton, William N.
  • Orenda and a Definition of Religion.
    Hewitt, J. N. B.
  • Status of Women in Iroquois Polity before 1784
    Hewitt, J. N. B.
  • Haudenosaunee Art.
    Hill, Richard W.Sr.
  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
    Hill, Richard W.Sr.
  • The Preservation of Iroquois Thought: J. N. B. Hewitt’s Legacy of Scholarship for His People
    Merriam, Kathryn Lavely
  • The Science behind the Three Sisters Mound System: An Agronomic Assessment of an Indigenous Agricultural System in the Northeast
    Mt. Pleasant, Jane Staller, John E. Tykot, Robert H. Benz, Bruce F.
  • Conservation and Parks
  • The Eastern Algonkian Wabanaki Confederacy
    Speck, Frank
  • Platanus occidentalis.
    Sullivan, Janet
  • Practicing Peace for Climate Justice: Haudenosaunee Knowledge in Global Context
    MacDonald, Wa’kerahkats:teh Louise
  • Haudenosaunee Worldviews through Iroquoian Cosmologies: The Published Narratives in Historical Context
    White, Kevin J.
  • Rousing a Curiosity in Hewitt’s Iroquois Cosmologies
    White, Kevin J.