Nancy Raven
Nancy Raven (died 1930s) was a Natchez storyteller of Braggs, Oklahoma and one of the last two native speakers of the Natchez language. She worked with anthropologist John R. Swanton who collected information about Natchez religion, and with linguist Mary Haas who collected grammatical information and texts. Among the stories she told Mary Haas was one called "The Woman Who was a Fox".[1] She was the biological cousin, of the other last speaker of Natchez, Watt Sam, who in Natchez kinship terminology was his classificatory nephew.[2][3] Among the Natchez the language was generally passed down matrilineally, but at her death Nancy Raven had no surviving children.[4]
References
- ^ Kimball, G. (2013). "The Woman Who Was a Fox: The Structure of a Natchez Oral Narrative". International Journal of American Linguistics. 79 (3): 421–437.
- ^ Galloway, Patricia Kay (2004), "Natchez and Neighboring Groups", Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 14: Southeast, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 598–615 [unified volume Bibliography, pp. 772–999]
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