Anompilbashsha' Asilhha' Holisso

Chickasaw Prayer Book

By Chickasaw Language Committee

Edited by Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson, PhD) , Pamela Munro

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The Chickasaw Prayer Book contains prayers and scripture to offer hope, comfort, and blessings in Chickasaw and English. For the first time, multiple selections from the Bible are translated into the Chickasaw language and made available to the tribal community, general readers, and students and scholars of First American languages.

About the Author
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Lokosh (Joshua D. Hinson) is a Chickasaw citizen, also of Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Euro-American descent. A conversational speaker of the Chickasaw language, he is the director of the Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program and an award-winning artist. He holds a bachelor’s degree in painting from Abilene Christian University, a master’s degree in Native American art history from the University of New Mexico, and a doctorate in Native language revitalization from the University of Oklahoma. He creates art within the Chickasaw Nation, located in Ada, Oklahoma.

Pamela Munro is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has collaborated with Chickasaw fluent speaker Catherine Willmond on two publications, and aided in the editing of the 2012 title, Anompilbashsha Asilhha' Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Book.

Book Details
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9781935684060
Weight: 1.0 lb
Publisher: Chickasaw Press
Publication date: 2012-10-01
BISAC 1: REL124030
BISAC 2: REL126000
BISAC 3: REL052010