A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers written by Roger Williams, who was forced to leave Massachusetts and established Rhode Island. This early linguistic...
A Key Into the Language of America
A white woman's recreation of the sound and spirit of Indian poetry. A sampler: "eagle / turkey / partridge / cormorant / Ptowewushannick. / They are fled."
Firstly, this is a practical, instructional guidebook written with the colonial society in mind. Particularly where religious missions are concerned, the author feels that colonialists should have a command of Native American languages.
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What Cheer, Netop!: Selections from A Key Into the Language of America