ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Baraga (F. ) and Belcourt (G. A.) — Cont. 



[Prospectus of] The | Odjibway 



grammar, | compiled by | R. R. Baraga 

 and Rev. G. Belcourt | [Five lines quo- 

 tation.] j [Design.] | 



Montreal | Beauchemin & Valois, 

 Booksellers and Printers | 256 and 258 

 St. Paul Street. | 1877 



Title reverse blank 1 1. text pp. 1-14, sra. 4°. 



Rudiments of the Sauteux language, bj Rev. 

 G. Belcourt, pp. 1-14. 



"In reprinting the grammar of Bishop Ba- 

 raga, we intend to abridge it a little, principally 

 by reducing the examples, but at the same time 

 ■we will manage it so that the student will find 

 all the rules and explanations." 



Copies seen : Powell. 



and Weikamp (J. B.) Katolik | 



Anamie-Masinaigan. | A| Catholic 

 prayerbook and catechism | in the | 

 Otchipwe-Indian language. | By | Rt. 

 Rev. Bishop F. Baraga, D. D., | with | 

 Aq Appendix of the Mass and Vespers 

 in I Latin; and Prayers in the Ottawa- 

 I Indian Language, | by Rev, John B. 

 Weikamp, | Tert. O. S. F. | 



New York & Cincinnati : \ Benziger 

 brothers, | Printers to the Holy-Apos- 

 tolic See. [1874.] 



Frontispiece 1 1. title verso blank 1 1. text 

 in Otchipwe pp. 3-320, index pp. 321-322, ap- 

 pendix by Father Weikamp pp. 323-346, 16°. 



The Latin occupies pp. 323-336, the Ottawa 

 pp. 327-346. 



Copies seen : Shea, Trumbull. 



See Baraga (¥.) for title of an edition of this 

 work minus the appendix. 



Frederick Baraga, R, C. bishop, born in 

 TreflFen, Carniola, 29 June, 1797; died in Mar- 

 quette, Mich., 19 Jan., 1868. His family, a 

 younger branch of the house of Hapsburg, 

 was the most distinguished in lUyria. He 

 began his studies in the college of Leibac, the 

 capital of his native province, whore he learned 

 to speak French, Italian, and German fluently, 

 in addition to the ordinary branches. At the 

 end of his course he went to Vienna to study 

 law, and after graduation, in 1821, determined 

 to devote himself to the priesthood. He en- 

 tered the eclesiagtical seminary of Leibac and 

 was ordained in 1823. He exercised his min- 

 istry for the next seven years in Carniola, and, 

 in the interval of his missionary duties, com- 

 posed works of devotion in the Sclavonic 

 dialect for the people. The present improved 

 condition of this language is chiefly attributed 

 to the efi"orts of Father Baraga. Having de- 

 termined on spending his life among the Indians 

 of the United States, he transferred his estates 

 to his brothers, reserving to himself an annuity 

 of $300, and arrived in New York in December, 

 1830. He spent some months in Ohio studying 



Baraga (F.) — Continued. 



English and the Ottawa dialect, and set out in 

 May for Arbre Croche, a village of Ottawa 

 Indians on the peninsula of Michigan. The 

 inhabitants, although they had relapsed into 

 barbarism, retained some traditions of the 

 Jesuits of the seventeenth century and received 

 Father Baraga with welcome, and, under his 

 guidance, the community entered upon the 

 public practice of a christian life. In a little 

 more than a year he built a church and two 

 schools and had an Indian congregation of more 

 than 700, He next extended his labors as far 

 as the Castor Islands and beyond Lake Mich- 

 igan, erecting several churches as well as 

 schools in Green Bay and St. Joseph's. 



In 1832 he published at Detroit a prayer and 

 hymn book m the Ottawa language, the first of 

 a remarkable series of works in the Indian dia- 

 lects, which have been found very useful by 

 philologists. He visited Grand River in the 

 spring of 1833 and baptised more than 100 of 

 the natives, but his eflEbrts were counteracted 

 by the white liquor-dealers and the Indians 

 whom they had demoralized. His enemies peti- 

 tioned the Government for his removal, and, 

 although he was sustained by the governor of 

 . Michigan, he was forced to seek other fields. 



He began his labors among the Chippewas at 

 Lapointe in 1835, and continued them success- 

 fully tor eighteen years. His success was 

 mainly owing to the assistance he received 

 from the Leopoidine society in his native 

 country. 



He next visited the Indians of Fond du Lac, 

 70 miles from Lapointe, and the Indians of Bad 

 River, seventeen miles to the south, both of 

 whom led a roving life. During the winter of 

 1836-'37 he traveled six miles every day to in- 

 struct them, on their return to their wigwams, 

 until he had them all ready to receive baptism ► 

 During this period he also wrote the "Ojibway 

 Prayer- and Hymn-Book and Catechism," the 

 "Extracts of the History of the Old and New 

 Testaments, with the Gospels of the Year," 

 in the same dialect ; "The History, Character, 

 Manners, and Customs of the North American 

 Indians," in German, and a devotional work 

 for his countrymen in Sclavonic. He went to 

 Europe in 1837 to collect money for his mission, 

 and was so successful that he was also enabled 

 to have his Indian books printed in Paris. On 

 his return to the United States he was able, 

 with the means in hand, to conduct his opera- 

 tions more systematically. 



In 1843, as the missions he had established 

 no longer needed his personal supervision, he 

 resolved to make the " Ance," an old trading- 

 post of the American Fur Company, between 

 Pointe Abbaye and Keweenau Point, the center 

 of his labors. The Indians here were steeped 

 in idolatry and intemperance. But, though 

 threats were made against his life, he succeeded 

 in converting some of their medicine men, and 

 this was followed by the conversion of many 

 others. He built a church and parsonage. 



