Karuk

• Julian Lang (translator, with Introduction and Commentary), Ararapikva: Traditional Karuk Indian Literature from North-western California. Heyday Books, 1994. 112 pp. $11 (paper)/$30 (hardcover). --- Four traditional Karuk (Karok) narratives, and a conversation between two elders on how whiteman's food first came into the Karuk world. The texts are excerpted from the notes of J. P. Harrington, who worked extensively with Karuk in the 1920s. Lang, an accomplished native scholar who is fluent in Karuk, has retranscribed Harrington's texts in the writing system now used by the tribe, and has provided word-by-word and free translations. A cassette tape of L. reading the stories will soon be available. --- Order from: Heyday Books, Box 9145, Berkeley, CA 94709 (tel: 510/549-3564). [Jan. 1994]
  
  
• Nancy Richardson & Suzanne Burcell, Let's Speak Karuk! A Beginner's Guide to Conversational Karuk. Edited by Julian Lang. Center for Indian Community Development, Humboldt State Univ., 1993. 103 pp., map. No price indicated. --- Includes Quick Pronunciation Guide and Practical Spelling Chart; Expressions in Karuk; Vocabulary (Animals, Apparel, Foods, the Natural World, Tools & Containers, Colors, Adverbs, Numbers); Place Names; and Village Sites. --- Order from: CICD, Humboldt State Univ., Arcata, CA 95521 (tel: 707/826-3711).