48 



BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 



Bill — Continued. 



An act to ratify " etc. (Pilling.) And again, as 

 the same, with slight additions to the heading 

 and a final section added, making pp. 1-43. 

 (Pilling.) 

 In all these the proper names are the same. 



Bill. 50th Congress, | Ist Session. | S. 

 2522. I [Four lines.] | A bill | To ratify 

 and confirm an agreement with the Red 

 Lake Band of | Chippewa Indians in 

 the State of Minnesota. 



[Washington^ D, C. Government 

 printing office. 1888. ] 



No title-page.heading as above; text pp. 1-15, 

 large 8°. 



Signatures of chiefs and headmen of the Red 

 Lake band of Chippewas, pp. 11-13. 



Copies seen: Pilling. 



Bingham (A.) Ojibwa | spelling book : | ac- 

 cording to the I improved orthography | 

 of I Dr. Edwin James. | By A. Bingham, 

 I missionary to the Baptist board of 

 foreign missions | at Sault St. Marie, 

 Michigan Territory. | 



Albany: | printed by Packard and Van 

 Benthuysen. | 1825. 



Title 1 1. text pp. 3-12, 16°. 



An evening hymn, p. 12. 



The only copy I have seen is that in the 

 library of the late Sir Thomas Phillips, Chelten- 

 ham, England, 



Blackbird (Andrew Jackson). History 

 I of the I Ottawa and Chippewa In- 

 dians I of Michigan ; | a grammar of 

 their language, | and personal and 

 family history of the author, | By An- 

 drew J. Blackbird, | Late U. S. Inter- 

 preter, Harbor Springs, Emmet Co., 

 Mich. I 



Ypsilanti, Mich. : [ the Ypsilantian 

 job printing house. | 1887. 



Cover title : Price One Dollar. | History | of 

 the I Ottawa and Chippewa | Indians of Michi- 

 gan, I and grammer of their language | by A. J. 

 Blackbird, | (Mack-e-te-be-nessy, son of the Ot- 

 tawa Chief,.Mack-a-de-pe-nessy). 



Printed cover, title verso copyright 1 1. intro- 

 duction 1 1. preface verso acknowledgment 1 1. 

 text pp. 7-128, sq. 16°. 



The ten commandments, creed, and Lord's 

 prayer, pp. 105-106— (xramraar of the Ottawa 

 and Chippewa language, pp. 107-119.— Vocabu- 

 laries (words, phrases, and sentences), pp. 120- 

 128. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling, Powell. 



I have seen a prospectus of this work headed 

 "The Ypsilantian, Ypsilanti, Mich. Thursday, 

 reb.9,1888" (probably reprinted from that period- 

 ical), which gives examples of nouns, pronouns, 



Blackbird (A. J.) — Continued. 



and conjugations of verbs from the grammar. Ta 

 it is the statement that "nearly the whole work 

 of editing the author's manuscript has been done 

 as a work of benevolence by Mrs. G-. W. Owen 

 of this city, excepting a portion of the grammar, 

 done during her illness by the senior editor of 

 the Ypsilantian." 



The closing paragraph of the work itself 

 is as follows: "Note. Except some condensa- 

 tion and arrangement in the grammar, this work 

 is printed almost verbatim as written by the 

 author. — Editor." 



Andrew J. Blackbird, the author of this little^ 

 book, is an educated Indian, son of the Ottawa 

 chief. HisTndian name is Mack-aw-de-benessy 

 (Black Hawk), but he generally goes by the 

 niame of "Blackbird," taken from the interpre- 

 tation of the French ' ' I'oiseau noir. ' ' Mr. Black- 

 bird's wife is an educated and intelligent white 

 woman of English descent, and they have four 

 children. He is a friend of the white people as 

 well as of his own people. Bi'ought up as an In- 

 dian, with no opportunity for learning during 

 his boyhood, when he came to think for himself, 

 he started out blindly for an education, without 

 any means but his brains and his hands. 



He was loyal to the government during the^ 

 rebellion in the United States, for which cause 

 he met much opposition by designing whit© 

 people who had full sway among the Indians, 

 and who tried to mislead them and cause them 

 to be disloyal; and he broke up one or two 

 rebellious councils amongst his people during 

 the progress of the rebellion. 



When Hon. D. C. Leach, of Traverse City, 

 Mich., was Indian agent, Mr. Blackbird was 

 appointed United States interpreter, and con- 

 tinued in this office with other subsequent 

 agents of the department for many years. Be- 

 fore he was fairly out of this office he was ap- 

 pointed postmaster of Little Traverse, now" 

 Harbor Springs, Mich., and faithfully dis- 

 charged his duties as such forever eleven years 

 with but very little salary. — Introduction. 

 Blackfoot : 



Bible, Genesis (pt.) See Tims (J. W.) 

 Bible, Matthew Tims (J. W.) 



Bible stories Tims (J. W.) 



Catechism Lacombe (A.) 



Dictionary Lacombe (A.) 



Dictionary McLean (J.) 



Dictionary Tims (J. W.) 



General discussion Our. 



Gentes Legal (E.) 



Gentes Morgan (L.H.) 



Geographic names Morgan (L. H.> 



Grammar Lanning (CM.) 



Grammar McLean (J.) 



Grammar Tims(J.W.) 



Grammatic comments Adelung (J. C.) and 



Vater (J. S.) 

 Grammatic comments Hay den (F. V.) 

 Grammatic comments Wilson (E. F.) 

 Grammatic treatise Legal (E.) 



