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Editorial Note It is quite clear that Alvin Josephy had a good ear for the Nez Perce language. While not trained as a linguist, his transcriptions are quite faithful to the original Nez Perce. Though working largely from historical documents and thus having to deal with earlier recorders who often did not hear as well as he, it is clear that Josephy worked through the names in the historical record with his Nez Perce friends, teachers , and associates. In this edition of his work we have attempted to provide International Phonetic Alphabet–compatible transcriptions of the names as footnotes where possible, using the orthography for Nez Perce developed by Haruo Aoki. In some cases we are unable to provide such a transcription without undue speculation. ฀ ...

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