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Wiyot and Yurok Language Bibliography
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Wiyot and Yurok bibiliography
The following are all the references I have compiled to date on Wiyot and
Yurok. This list is surely incomplete, and not done according to any standard
method. However, it is pretty thorough.
- Adler, F. W. (1961). "A bibliographical checklist of Chimakuan, Kutenal, Ritwan, Salishan, and Wakashan linguistics." IJAL xxvii(3): 198-210.
- Angulo, J de and L.S. Freeland. A short vocabulary in Yurok. Boas A 7.1.
- Baker, Bob. Americans in bondage, California's dark history of Indian slavery and extermination and the continuating oppression of the Klamath River-Yurok Indian, as reported by Bob Baker, News Director of Santa Rosa, Calif..Santa Rosa, Calif., 1967.
- Baker, Marc A. (1981). The ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa, and Karok Indians of Northwestern California. Arcata, CA: MA thesis, Humoldt State U.
- Bennett, Ruth. Yurok vocabulary / Arcata, CA : Bilingual Emphasis Program, Education Department and Center for Community Development, Humboldt State University ; [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, [1986].
- Berman, Howard (1972). Subordinate clauses in Yurok: A preliminary report. In Paul M. Peranteau et al. (eds.) The Chicago Which Hunt. Chicago: CLS 256-271.
- ___ (1982). Two phonological innovations in Ritwan. IJAL 48;:412-20.
- ___ (1984). Proto-Algonquian-Ritwan verbal roots. IJAL 50: 335-42.
- ___ (1990). New Algonquian-Ritwan cognate sets. IJAL 56: 431-34.
- Berman, Joan (1986). Ethnography and folklore of the Indians of Nwestern Ca: A lit review and annotated bib. Coyote Press.
- Bright, Jane Orstan and William Bright (1965). Semantic structures in northwestern Ca and the S-W hyp. AA 67:5 part 2: 249-258.
- Bright, William, (1959). [Review of] The Yurok language : grammar, texts, lexicon, by R.H. Robins. Lg 35: 100-104.
- ___ (1979). Twd a typology of verbal abuse: naming dead kin in Northwestern Ca. Maledicta 3: 177-180.
- Cody, Bertha Parker. Yurok tales / as told by Jane Van Stralen to Bertha Parker Cody. Berkeley, CA :
- Curtis, Edward S. (1924). The North American Indian, vol. 13. Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press
- Dixon, R. B. and A. L. Kroeber. (1913). New linguistic families in California, AAVE 15. 647-655.
- Elsasser, Albert B. (1978). Wiyot. In Robert F. Heizer (ed.) In California, vol. 8 of the Handbook of North American Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 155-163.
- Gibbs, George (1853). Vocabularies of Indian languages of Northwest California. HCPIT 3; 428-445.
- ___ (1853). Observations on some f the Indian dialects of Northern California: Vocabularies of Indian Languages in Northwest California. School. Vol 3: 420-423, 428-445.
- Gifford, E. W. (1922). California kinship terminologies. UCPAAE 18: 27--30.
- Goddard, Ives (1966). Review article on The Wiyot language, by Karl V. Teeter. IJAL 32: 398-404.
- ___ (1975). Algonquian, Wiyot, and Yurok: Providing a distant genetic relationship. In M. Dale Kinkade, et al. (eds.). Linguistics and anthropology: In honor of C. F. Voegelin. Lisee: de Ridder. 249-262.
- Greenberg, Joseph H. (1997). Mary Haas, Algic and the scientific consensus. Anthropological Linguistics 39(4): 668-673.
- Haas, Mary R. 1910-Wiyot-Yurok-Algonkian and problems of comparative Algonkian / Mary R. Haas. Berkeley, CA : California Indian Library Collections [distributor], 1993.
- ___ (1950). Field notes on Yurok. Unpublished ms.
- ___ (1952). Consonant symbolism in northwestern California: a problem in diffusion. In Earl H. Swanson, Jr. (ed.). Languages and cultures of Western North America. Pocatello: Idaho State U. Press.
- ___. (1958). Algonkian-Ritwan: The end of a controversy. IJAL 24: 159-173.
- ___ (1967). Lg and taxonomy in Northwestern CA. AA 69: 358-362.
- Hamp, Eric P. (1952). Wiyot and Yurok correspondences. In Earl H. Swanson, Jr. (ed.). Languages and cultures of Western North America. Pocatello: Idaho State U. Press. 107-110.
- Heizer, Robert F. and Thomas R. Hester (1970). The four ages of Tsurai. Berkeley and LA, UC Press.
- Heizer, Robert Fleming (1971). The other Californians; prejudice and discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920. Berkeley: UC Press.
- Holsinger, Rosemary. Yurok tales / adapted by Rosemary Bell ; illustrations by Kathy Webb; photos by Liz Bowen. Etna, Calif. : Bell Books, c1992. NRLF W 108 287 Request item at UCB Bancroft Library.
- Huffman, S. (1995). "Review of Teeter and Nichols Wiyot Handbook." Language 71(2): 426-427.
- Kroeber, A. L. (ca 1900). Field notes on Yurok. Unpublished ms.
- ___ (1911). The languages of the coast of California north of SF. UCPAAE 9: 384-412, 414-426.
- ___ (1911). Phonetic constituents of the native languages of Ca. UCPAAE 10(1): 1-12.
- ___ (1917). California kinship systems UCPAAE 12: 374-376.
- ___ (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California, BAE-B 78: 1-97, 112-120.
- ___ (1926). Laws of the Yurok Indians. Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 2: 511-516.
- ___ (1934). Yurok and neighboring kin term systems. UCPAAE 35: 15-22.
- ___ (1960). Yurok speech usages. In Stanley Diamon (ed.). Culture in history. NY: Columbia U Press. 993-999.
- Lavalle, Dorothy (1998). Batawat by the sea : the Wiyot in McKinleyville, California. Thesis (M.A.)--Humboldt State University.
- Michelson, Truman (1914). Two alleged Algonquian languages of California AAVE 16: 361-367
- ___ (1915). Rejoinder to Sapir. AAVE 17: 188-198.
- Nichols, J. (1971). "Diminutive consonant symbolism in Western North America." Language 47(4): 826-848.
- Nomland, Gladys Ayer & A.L. Kroeber (1936). Wiyot towns. UCPAAE 35(5). Berkeley: University of California Press,.
- Parsons, Thomas, et al. (1974). Yurok language, literature, and culture. 3rd ed. Hoopa, Ca: US Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Pilling, Arnold R. (1978). "Yurok." In Robert F. Heizer (ed.) In California, vol. 8 of the Handbook of North American Indians. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 137-154.
- Powers, Stephen (1877). Yurok vocabulary. CNAE 3:460-473.
- ___ (1877).. Tribes of California. CNAE 3. Washington: Gvt printing office. (Heizer did a reprint in 1976).
- Proulx, P. (1980). Wiyot and Yurok light on Algonquian ‘sun’. In William Cowan (ed.), Papers of the 11th Alg. Conference. Ottawa: Carleton University: 79-82.
- ___ (1984). Proto-Algic I: Phonological sketch. IJAL 50: 165-207.
- ___ (1985). Proto-Algic II: verbs. IJAL 51: 59-94.
- ___ (1991). Proto-Algic III: pronouns. Kansas working papers in linguistics 16: 129-70.
- ___ (1992). Proto-Algic IV: nouns. KWPIL 17: 11-57.
- ___ (1994). Proto-Algic V: doublets and their implications. KWPIL 19: 115-82.
- ___ (1995). "Review of Teeter and Nichols Wiyot Handbook." IJAL: 341-343.
- Reichard, Gladys A. (1925). Wiyot grammar and texts. UCPAAE 22: 1-215.
- ___ (1926). Wiyot: An Indian language of Northern California. American Speech 1: 654-658.
- Robins, R. H. (1958). The Yurok language : grammar, texts, lexicon Berkeley, CA : UC Press.
- ___ (1962). The third person pronominal affix in Yurok. IJAL 28: 14-18.
- ___ (1971). The mourning dove. In William Slager (ed.) Eng for Am Inds. Washington DC: BIA.
- ___ (1980). Grammatical hierarchy iand the Yurok bipersonal verb. Wege zur Universalienforschung. In Gunter Bretteschneider and Christian Lehmann (eds.) Tuebingen: narr. 360-364.
- ___ and Norma McLeod (1956). Five Yurok songs: A musical and textual analysis. Bulettin of the school of Oriental and African studies (18). 592-609.
- Sapir, Edward (1913).. Wiyot and Yurok, Algonkin languages of California. AAVE 15: 617-646.
- ___ (1923). The Algonkin affinity of Yurok and Wiyot kinship terms JSAP 15: 37-74.
- ___ (1927). Yurok fieldnotes. Boas A 7.2.
- ___, (1915). Algonkin languages of California : a reply. In AA 17: 188-194; 198.
- Shaw, Patricia A. (1991). Consonant harmony systems: The special status of coronal harmony. Phonetics and phonology 2. Academic Press. 125-157.
- Spott, Robert and A.L. Kroeber (1942). Yurok narratives UCPAAE ; v. 35, no. 9.
- Summerly, John Joseph (1967). The displacement of the Wiyot Indians from the Humboldt Bay region by white settlers, 1848-1865.
- Teeter, K. (1956-58). Field notes on Wiyot, recorded in 1956 and 1959. unpublished ms.
- ___. Wiyot and Algonquian, a preliminary study. Unpublished ms.
- ___. Wiyot and Yurok, a preliminary study. Unpublished ms.
- ___. (1958). "Notes on Humboldt County, CA, Place names of Indian origin." Names 6(1). addenda in vol 7 page 126.
- ___. (1959). "Consonant harmony in Wiyot (with a note on Cree)." IJAL xxv(1): 41-43.
- ___ (1964). Algonquian lgs and genetic relationship. Intl Congress of Linguists 9: 1026:1033.
- ___ (1974). Some Algic etymologies. IJAL 40: 197-201.
- ____. The Algonquian verb : notes toward a reconsideration / Karl V. Teeter. Berkeley, CA
- Trull, Georgiana. Yurok sentences / Yurok teachers: Georgiana Trull, Jimmy James, Josephine James; editor: Ruth Bennett. Arcata, Calif. : The Bilingual Emphasis Program, The Center for Community Development, Humboldt State University ; [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1986.
- ___. Yurok vocabulary / Yurok teachers: Georgiana Trull ... supervisor: Ruth Bennett. Arcata, Calif. : Bilingual Emphasis Program, Center for Community Development, Humboldt State University, [1986?]. UCB NativAmer PM2703 .B46 Ref.
- Uhlenbeck, C. C. (1927). Algonkisch-klinkende woorden in het Wiyot. Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappe, Afdeeling Letterkunde lxiii: 233-258.
- ___ (1939). Grammatische invloed van het Algonkisch op het Wiyot en het Yurok. MKAW 2: 41-49.
- Waterman, T. T. (1920). Yurok geography. UCPAAE 16: 177-314.
- ___ (1923). Yurok affixes UCPAAE 20: 369-386.
- ___ (1925). The village sites in Tolowa and neighboring areas in northwestern California. AAVE 27: 528-543.
- Yurok, BAE-B 2: 1012-1014 (1910).
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