The dog's children

"In 1941, Angeline Williams, an Anishinaabe elder left her home on an island in the St. Mary’s River between Michigan and Ontario and travelled south to North Caroline to teach the Ojibwe (Chippewa) language. At the Linguistic Institute, a summer school of linguistics, Angeline Williams spoke words and sentences and told anecdotes and stories to give the students practice in transcribing an analyzing the structure of an unwritten language.

The Dog’s Children includes twenty stories dictated to the class and the teaching staff, Charles F. Voegelin, and Leonard Bloomfield, as later edited by Bloomfield. The manuscript from which this edition has been prepared is now at the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution. The volume also contains an Ojibwe-English glossary and other linguistic study aids." -- Provided by publisher


  • Call Number:
    PM854 .W55 1991.

  • Title Responsibility:
    Angeline Williams ; edited and translated by Leonard Bloomfield ; newly edited and with a glossary by John D. Nichols..

  • Subtitle:
    Anishinaabe texts /.

  • Author Information:
    Angeline Williams, Biidaasigekwe "Sunlight Woman", was born at Manistique, Michigan, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and contributed to an ethno-linguistic survey of Upper Peninsula Ojibwa-Ottawa groups. Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1946) was the Sterling Professor of Linguistics at Yale University..

  • Production Place:
    Winnipeg :.

  • Producer:
    University of Manitoba Press,.

  • Production Date:
    1991.

  • Band Tribe Geography Time:
    Ojibwe, Subarctic.

  • Recommended For:
    Research.

  • Catalogue Key:
    2005026.

  • Reviews:

    Hockett, Charles F. "Reviewed Work: The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told by Angeline Williams by Leonard Bloomfield, John D. Nichols." Anthropological Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 1, 1995, pp. 111-114. https://www-jstor-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/30028054?pq-o….

    Brooke, Paul C. "Reviewed Work: The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told by Angeline Williams by Leonard Bloomfield, John Nichols." Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 1, 1994, p. 60. https://www-jstor-org.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/stable/23531376?seq=….

  • Table of Contents:
    dogs-children-williams-1991.pdf (74.25 KB) .