IV PREFACE. 



All works are entered under the author's name when known — trans- 

 lators being treated as authors — and under first word of title (not an 

 article or a pre[)Osition) when the name of the author is not known. A 

 cross reference is given from the first word of each title in the native 

 languages, whether the work be anonymous or not. All titular matter, 

 including cross references thereto, is in a larger, all index matter in a 

 smaller type. 



The biographies have been furnished in most cases by the persons 

 themselves. 



In detailing contents and in adding notes respecting contents, the 

 spelling of i^roper names used in the works themselves has been fol- 

 lowed and so far as possible the language of the respective writers is 

 given. In the index entries of tribal names the compiler has adopted 

 that spelling which seemed to him the best. 



Works are given chronologically under each author, each work being 

 followed through all its editions before the next one is entered. 



Each author's name, with his titles &c., is entered in full but once, 

 i. e., in its proper alphabetic order; all other references to him are by 

 initials only. 



The publications in the Siouan language cover perhaps a wider range 

 than those of any other linguistic group of North America, including 

 the whole Bible, school books, periodicals, &c. Nearly every dialect is 

 represented in print or in manuscript, either by dictionaries or extensive 

 vocabularies, and, of five of the languages at least, somewhat preten- 

 tious grammars have been prepared. 



The earliest record of the Siouan languages mentioned herein is the 

 vocabulary of Hennepin, compiled about 1G80. The earliest printed 

 vocabulary is that of the Naudowessi, in Carver's travels, first published 

 in 1778. The earliest text is the Winnebago Prayer Book of Mazzu- 

 chelli, published in Detroit in 1833, followed, in 1831, by the Oto Hymn 

 Book of Merrill and the Osage First Book of Montgomery and Eeqna. 



The first publications in the remaining dialects of the Siouan stock 

 are : the Sioux Spelling Book of Stevens, in 1836 ; in Santee, Extracts 

 from Genesis and two other works by Eenville, the History of Joseph 

 by the Messrs. Pond, and the Dakota First Beading Book by Riggs 

 and Pond, all in 1839. In 1813 Messrs. Hamilton and Irvin printed on 

 their own press the first Iowa work, an elementary book; in 1850 there 

 was issued a similar work in the Omaha, under the superintendence of 

 Kev. E. McKenney; and in 1873 one in the Ponka by Rev. J. Owen 

 Dorsey. In the Hidatsa the first text is by Dr. Matthews: a grammar 

 and dictionary issued in 1873. The Siouan is one of the few linguistic 

 stocks of America in which the whole Bible has been printed, Messrs. 

 Williamson and Riggs having issued the complete work in 1880 in the 

 Santee dialect. Portions of the Scripture have also been printed in the 

 Omaha, Iowa, Oto, and Missouri, and record will be found in the pres- 

 ent work of portions in manuscript in the Hidatsa and the Yankton. 



