David J. Costa is the program director of the Language Research Office at the Myaamia Center at Miami University. He is the author of The Miami-Illinois Language (Nebraska, 2003).

• ContributorsForeword Introduction DAVID J. COSTA Editing a Gros Ventre (White Clay) text TERRY BROCKIE AND ANDREW COWELLGros Ventre text:The Gros Ventres Go to War Redacting Premodern Texts without Speakers: the Peoria Story ofWiihsakacaakwa DAVID J. COSTAPeoria text:Wiihsakacaakwa Aalhsoohkaakani (Wiihsakacaakwa Story)  Editing and Using Arapaho-Language Manuscript Sources: AComparative Perspective ANDREW COWELLArapaho texts:A Name-Changing Prayer Nihʼoo3oo and His Friend the Beaver Catcher: Divingthrough the Ice  Highlighting Rhetorical Structure through Syntactic Analysis: AnIllustrated Meskwaki Text by Alfred Kiyana AMY DAHLSTROMMeskwaki text:A Man Who Fasted Long Ago Three Nineteenth-Century Munsee Texts: Archaisms, DialectVariation, and Problems of Textual Criticism IVES GODDARDMunsee texts:A Youth and His Uncle Moshkim Origin MythOn Editing Bill Leaf's Meskwaki TextsLUCY THOMASONMeskwaki text:Bill Leaf's Story of Red-Leggins  Challenges of Editing and Presenting the Corpus of PotawatomiStories Told by Jim and Alice Spear to Charles Hockett LAURA WELCHERPotawatomi text:Jejakos Gigabé (Crane Boy)  The Words of Black Hawk: Restoring a Long-Ignored Bilingual GORDON WHITTAKERSauk text:The Nekanawîni ('My Words') of Mahkatêwimeshikêhkêhkwa Index

"This book offers a significant contribution to tribal pedagogy."-Paul Zolbrod, Tribal Colllege “These carefully edited texts, in eight Algonquian languages no longer widely spoken, show how premodern records can be made accessible to readers interested in the traditional narratives and linguistic styles of an earlier time. They provide models for future philological studies as well as reliable data on some little-known languages.”-David H. Pentland, professor of Algonquian studies at the University of Manitoba