Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations

Preliminaries

1. Introduction
1.1 About Dictionaries
1.2. Orthography and Pronunciation Guide
1.2.1 Writing h and Glottal Stop

2. Kanien’kéha Dialects

3. Organization of Entries

4. Overview of Morphology
4.1 Minimal Verb and Noun Forms
4.2 Non-Modal Prefixes
4.3 The Reflexive and Semi-Reflexive Prefixes
4.4 Noun Incorporation
4.5 Derivational Suffixes
4.6 Aspects and Aspect Extensions
4.7 Locative Suffixes
4.8 Attributive Clitics
4.9 Representing Variant Forms

5. Works Cited in Entries
5.1 Early Seventeenth-Century Vocabularies
5.2 Seventeenth-Century Dictionaries: Bruyas, Galissionniere
5.3 Nineteenth-Century Dictionaries: Marcoux, Cuoq
5.4 Eighteenth-Century Sources
5.5 Other Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Sources
5.6 Sources on Other Languages

6. Final Remarks on Words and Dictionaries

Kanien’kéha-English Dictionary

English-Kanien’kéha Index

References
About Gunther Michelson

About the Author

Gunther Michelson (1920–2005) was a journalist with CBC Radio Canada and an independent scholar who immersed himself in the study of Haudenosaunee history, traditions, and language.

Karin Michelson is a professor emeritus of linguistics at the University at Buffalo.

Glenda Canadian Deer taught the Kanien’kéha (Mohawk) language at Kahnawà:ke, Québec, for 24 years.