Hanni Woodbury
German-American linguist and anthropologist
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Hanni Woodbury is a German-American linguist and anthropologist who specializes in Onondaga and other Iroquoian languages. She was born in Hamburg and moved with her family to the United States after World War II.[1] She has done fieldwork on Onondaga for more than three decades. Her Onondaga–English dictionary—the first dictionary of Onondaga—was described as "monumental".[2] She was awarded one of the Mary Haas Awards in 1994 from the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas for her work on Onondaga ceremonies.[2]
Works
- Woodbury, Hanni (1979). Noun Incorporation in Onondaga. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Gibson, John Arthur; Woodbury, Hanni; Henry, Reginald; Webster, Harry; Goldenweiser, Alexander (1992). Concerning the League: The Iroquois League Tradition as Dictated in Onondaga by John Arthur Gibson. Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics.
- Woodbury, Hanni (2014) [2003]. Onondaga-English/English-Onondaga Dictionary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-2872-4.[3][4][5][2]
- Woodbury, Hanni (2018). A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-0282-9.
