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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 105–111

Indigenous peoples and translation

| Concordia University of Edmonton
| INALCO Paris
Article outline
  • 1.Unique challenges
  • 2.Interpreting
  • 3.Colonialism and activism
  • 4.Process
  • 5.Historical case study – The Eliot Bible
  • 6.Contemporary case studies
  • 7.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • Further essential reading
Published online: 16 September 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hts.5.ind1
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Further essential reading

Swann, Brian
(ed.) 1992 On the Translation of Native American Literatures. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.Google Scholar
Tedlock, Dennis
1971 “On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative.” The Journal of American Folklore, 84 (331): 114–133. DOI logoGoogle Scholar