<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation</p><p><em>World-Making Stories</em> is a collection of Maidu creation stories that will help readers appreciate California&rsquo;s rich cultural tapestry. At the beginning of the twentieth century renowned storyteller Hanc&rsquo;ibyjim (Tom Young) performed Maidu and Atsugewi stories for anthropologist Ronald B. Dixon who published these stories in 1912.&nbsp;The resulting&nbsp;<em>Maidu Texts</em> presented the stories in numbered block texts that while serving as a source of linguistic decoding also reflect the state of anthropological linguistics of the era by not conveying a sense of rhetorical or poetic composition.&nbsp;Sixty years later noted linguist William Shipley engaged the texts as oral literature and composed a free verse literary translation which he paired with the artwork of Daniel Stolpe and published in a limited-edition four-volume set that circulated primarily to libraries and private collectors.<br /><br />Here M. Eleanor Nevins and the&nbsp;Weje-ebis (Keep Speaking) Jamani Maidu Language Revitalization Project team illuminate these important tales in a new way by restoring Maidu elements omitted by William Shipley and by bending the translation to more closely correspond in poetic form to the Maidu original.&nbsp;The beautifully told stories by Hanc&rsquo;ibyjim are accompanied by Stolpe&rsquo;s intricate illustrations and by personal and pedagogical essays from scholars and Maidu leaders working to revitalize the language.&nbsp;The resulting <em>World-Making Stories</em> is a necessity for language revitalization programs and an excellent&nbsp;model of indigenous community-university collaboration.</p><p><strong>M. Eleanor Nevins </strong>is an associate professor of anthropology at Middlebury College in&nbsp;Vermont.&nbsp;She is the author of <em>Lessons from Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance</em>.</p>
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