Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- 1. Should Translation Work Take Place?: Ethical Questions Concerning the Translation of First Nations Languages -- 2. Reading a Dictionary: How Passamaquoddy Language Translates Concepts of Physical and Social Space -- 3. Translating Time: A Dialogue on Hopi Experiences of the Past -- 4. Hopi Place Value: Translating a Landscape -- 5. Related-Language Translation: Naskapi and East Cree -- 6. Performative Translation and Oral Curation: Ti-Jean/Chezan in Beaverland -- 7. Translation and Censorship of Native American Oral Literature -- 8. In the Words of Powhatan: Translation across Space and Time for The New World -- Part Two -- 9. Ethnopoetic Translation in Relation to Audio, Video, and New Media Representations -- 10. Translating Algonquian Oral Texts -- 11. Translating the Boundary between Life and Death in O'odham Devil Songs -- 12. Revisiting Haida Cradle-Song 67 -- 13. Translating Tense and Aspect in Tlingit Narratives -- 14. Translating Performance in the Written Text: Verse Structure in Dakota and Hocák -- 15. Toward Literature: Preservation of Artistic Effects in Choctaw Texts -- 16. Translating an Esoteric Idiom: The Case of Aztec Poetry -- 17. Translating Context and Situation: William Strachey and Powhatan's "Scorneful Song" -- 18. A Life in Translation -- 19. Memories of Translation: Looking for the Right Words -- Contributors -- Index.

An anthology of essays on the translation of Native American languages and literatures by top scholars in the field.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.