Description

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Anompilbashsha' Asilhha' Holisso: Chickasaw Prayer Book includes topical prayers, readings, and selected passages from the Holy Bible (King James Version) presented in a bilingual Chickasaw and English format. Members of the Chickasaw Language Committee, with Joshua D. Hinson, John P. Dyson, and Pamela Munro, have translated passages of the Bible to offer words of hope, comfort, and blessings in their native Chickasaw language. Christianity has a long and storied history among the Chickasaw people, who first read the Holy Bible in the Choctaw language. This collection marks the first time that multiple selections from the Bible have been translated into the Chickasaw language and made available to the Chickasaw community, general readers, and students and scholars of American Indian languages.

About the Author

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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. 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.