num_pages: 400
description: Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming of human beings when animals were like people, the stories present characters and motifs that paint a bigger picture of the world as Yakama ancestors knew it.The original edition of Anak� Iwach� featured stories that Yakama Tribal Elders recorded in several dialects of the Ichishk�in language that were collected and translated into English by renowned linguist and scholar Virginia Beavert. This new edition adds a preface from the Yakama Nation and essays on the history of the project and on Ichishk�in-language education. It includes four additional legends in Ichishk�in and English, annotations, an updated glossary, and more artwork by Tribal artists, helping readers, teachers, and students engage with the legends as teaching and learning tools and as a precious gift to current and future Yakama generations.
language: English
title: Anakú Iwachá: Yakama Legends and Stories
publisher: University of Washington Press