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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Belcourt (G. A.) — Continued. 



Leclerc, 1878 catalogue, no. 2152, priced a copy 

 60 fr.; at the Pinart sale, catalogue no. 92, Qua- 

 ritcli bought acopy for 30 fr. ; Dufosse, 1887, cat- 

 alogue no. 24580, charges 20 fr. ; and Gagnon, of 

 Quebec, in 1889, no. 52 of catalogue no. 12, $4. 



Department of Hudson Bay : ad- 

 dressed to Ms Excellency, Alex. Ram- 

 sey, president of the Minnesota Hist. 

 Society. By Rev. G. A. Belcourt: trans- 

 lated from the French by Mrs. Letitia 

 May. 



In Minnesota Hist. Soc. Annals, no. 4, pp. 

 16-32, Saint Paul, 1853, 8°. (Boston Public.) 



Contains a number of Saulteur terms passim. 



Reprinted as follows : 



Department of Hudson's Bay. By 



Rev. G. A. Belcourt. » 



In Minnesota Hist. Soc. Coll. vol. 1, pp. 207- 

 244, St. Paul, 1872, 8°. (Congress.) 



[Prospectus of a] Dictionnaire | 



frangais-sauteux. | Ou | odjibway. | 

 Par I le Rev. G. Belcourt. | [Design.] | 



Montreal | 1877. 



Title verso blank 11,3 other 11. 8°. 



It contains a few words in A, one in D, and 

 one in F. It was prepared by the Abbe La- 

 combe, who informs me, under date of June 16, 

 1886, that the work has not been published. He 

 adds: " It is a large manuscript, neatly written 

 on one side of the sheet only, in French and 

 Sauteux, and is now in the hands of Archbishop 

 Tach6, of Manitoba." 



Copies seen: Powell, Trumbull. 



According to Cuoq's Jugement erron6, p. 110, 

 an Algonkin dictionary by Belcourt was an- 

 nounced for publication in Paris in 1870, but it 

 has not appeared. 



See Baraga (F.) and Belcourt 



(G.A.) 



George Antoine Belcourt was born on the 

 Bay of Febre or St. Antoine, district of Three 

 Rivers, Lower Canada, in 1803. His father, a 

 mechanic, placed his son at the college of Nico- 

 let, where he passed through his classes with 

 success and afterwards embraced the ecclesias^ 

 tical state. He was made a priest in 1827, and 

 in 1830 was selected by the Bishop of Pro vou- 

 cher to go into the north country and labor 

 solely in christianizing the savage. Arriving 

 at Red River, June 19, 1831, he applied himself 

 with ardor to the study of the Saulteur lan- 

 guage. He discovered the principles of the 

 language, which he arranged and caused to be 

 printed in 1839; also a book of piety in this 

 tongue. He composed a dictionary which would 

 form a large quarto, but which, for want of 

 encouragement, has never been printed. This 

 dictionary, French and Saulteur, gives the ety- 

 mology of each word, and the composite parti- 

 cles, which throws much light upon the knowl- 

 edge of this language, and enables one to seize 



Belcourt (G. A.) — Continued. 



the genius of it — a thing so essential to him 

 who desires to understand the people in general. 

 He traveled, formed missions, built chapels, 

 etc., in many places over a space from east to 

 west of 1,000 miles, and passed each winter at 

 his mission of Saint Paul on the Assiniboine 

 River. In 1833, by his personal influence he 

 quelled a disturbance among the half-breeds 

 which threatened to become serious, in grati- 

 tude for which Governor Simpson added .50 

 pounds sterling to a like sum which the Hud- 

 son Bay Company gave every year to the Cath- 

 olic clergy, which they still receive yearly. 

 About 1849, owing to some trouble with the 

 Hudson Bay Company's officers, he left the 

 mission at Red River and accepted one at Pem- 

 bina. — Annals Minn. His. Soc. 



Belden (Lieut. George P.). Belden, the 

 white chief; | or, | twelve years | among 

 the I wild Indians of the plains. | From 

 the diaries and manuscripts | of | George 

 P. Belden, | The Adventurous White 

 Chief, Soldier, Hunter, Trapper, and 

 Guide. I Edited by | Gen. James S. Bris- 

 bin,U.S.A. | 



Cincinnati and New York : | C. F. 

 Vent. I Chicago : J. S. Goodman & co. 

 Philadelphia: A. H. Hubbard. | St. 

 Louis: F. A. Hutchinson & co. | San 

 Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & co. | 1870. 



Frontispiece 1 1. title verso copyright 1 1. 

 publishers' preface pp. iii-iv, contents pp. 5-13, 

 list of illustrations pp. xv-xvi, half-title verso 

 blank 1 1. text pp. 19-511, supplement pp. 512- 

 513, 8°. 



Ojibwa war song (from Schoolcraft), p. 43.~ 

 Names of the months in Indian, pp. 289-290. 



Copies seen: Congress, Powell. 

 Sold at the Field sale, catalogue no. 125*, for 

 $2.25. 



There are editions of 1871 (Powell) and 1872 

 (Astor) with titles similar to above except in 

 date. 



Bellair (F.) See O'Meara (F. A.) 

 Bellas ( Lieut. Henry H. ) Words, phrases, 

 and sentences in the Cheyenne lan- 

 guage. 



Manuscript, pp. 1-108, 4°, in the library of 

 the Bureau of Ethnology; collected at the Chey- 

 enne Agency, Indian Territory, and Red Cloud 

 Agency, Nebraska, during 1875, 1876, and 1877, 

 and recorded in a copy of Powell's Introduction 

 to the study of Indian languages, first edition. 

 The schedules are not well filled, though all 

 haA^e some entries. The additional pages, 106- 

 108, contain collections of parts of speech: 

 adjectives, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, and 

 conjunctions. 



Bellefeuille (Pere Charles de). [Ser- 

 mons in the Nipissing dialect of the 

 Algonquian language.] 



