ODAWA LANGUAGE AND LEGENDS

About the Book

Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima share many similarities, even though they lived in different centuries. Both were Odawa, and they both cared about the customs and traditions of their people. Andrew J. Blackbird lived in Little Traverse, now Harbor Springs, Michigan, while Ray Kiogima lives there now. Both wrote dictionaries and grammars for their people, while also recounting legends. In Odawa Language and Legends: Andrew J. Blackbird and Raymond Kiogima, Blackbird’s original 1887 book is followed by Kiogima’s Odawa dictionary, grammar, translations of taped legends, and his own stories.

About the Author

Constance Cappel, PhD compiled and edited A Union of Voices: Accounts of the Union Institute & University. She is both a writer and an educator having received her PhD in 1991 from the Union Institute & University. Dr. Cappel is presently the Vice0president of the Graduate Alumnae/i Board of the UI&U. She served on the GAB board from 1991-94 and again was elected to be on from 1999-2005. As the author of Utopian Colleges, she was asked many times to write a history of UI&U. She used the six oral histories gathered for the GAB board and let the others in this historical compellation speak in their own voices.