Western Apache-English Dictionary: A Community-Generated Bilingual Dictionary (English and Apache Languages Edition)

About this book

This exhaustive bilingual dictionary is the culmination of years of collaboration between educators linguistic scholars and community informants from the White Mountain Apache Tribe. It also includes dialectical variants from other communities including the San Carlos Tribe. The dictionary has been compiled with the goal of creating a living working dictionary that will be of value for cultural educational and practical purposes. Among these are the teaching of Western Apache to children the retention and expansion of the oral and written languages and the preservation of traditional ceremonial songs and oral history. More widely the dictionary will be useful to Apaches and non-Apaches in practical applications such as medicine social work education and human services. It also provides through its definitions a wealth of culture history and lore supplied by the many community informants.