Here is a link to Kwakiutl Texts at the American Museum of Natural History Research Library.Thank you to Carrie for sending me the link. Several Kwak'wala resources have been created over the last 100 years yet it can be difficult for community members to locate and access these resources. Of course, nothing takes the place of engaging directly with Kwak'wala speakers, but print resources can be helpful in our Kwak'wala work. The 3 files at this site are large and will take a while to download. What you'll find is stories in English on the left side of the page and in Kwak'wala on the right side. Ix'aka̱n tłax̱ gada. I like this.
Olaka̱la ik'! This is a great find.
ReplyDeleteThese scans are such high quality they could undergo OCR (optical character recognition) and be digitized, and then be converted to U'mista so people today could read it more easily. It'd be hard, but not impossible: if humans could retranscribe about 20 pages or so of this in U'mista orthography, I bet all the rest could be converted automatically based on those 20 pages.
G̱ilaḵa̱sla!
-- Pat from Kwak'wala class