First Nations Version

The First Nations Version is an English rendering of the New Testament shaped by Native American storytelling conventions and Indigenous cultural expression. Its scope is the New Testament, translated from Greek, working from the Greek New Testament as its base text while framing that text in Indigenous cultural language. The translation philosophy is dynamic and contextual, drawing on oral-storytelling patterns rather than pursuing formal word-for-word correspondence, and the work is categorized as a fresh translation rather than a revision of an existing English version. Its most distinctive feature is that the target language is intentionally contextualized rather than generic mainstream English, so that names, images, and turns of phrase reflect Native American speech and narrative habits. It belongs to a broader modern movement of Bible translation into the idioms of particular communities, and it has been read both devotionally and as an example of contextualized scripture in English.