ALGONQUIAN LANGUAGES. 



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Sergeant (J.), the younger — Cont'd, 

 bridge Indians (Report, appendix, p. 86), a8 fol- 

 lows: "Mr. Sergeant preaches to them regu- 

 larly on the Sabbath, nsnally in their own, the 

 Moheaknnuck language. Most of them under- 

 stand English; numbers can read and write it, 

 and several are able to instruct others. They 

 are more advanced in the knowledge of our 

 language, and in civilization, than any Indians 

 in our country; and many of them are capable 

 of rendering essential service in accomplishing 

 the plan of the government in respect to other 

 tribes." 



In 1818, 80 great had become the evil of vicin- 

 ity to the whites, that preparations were made 

 fora general removal. Before theendoftheyear 

 a company of seventy or eighty persons, includ- 

 ing about one-third of the New Stockbridge 

 church, emigrated to Indiana. Another large 

 parly removed to the Fox river, near Green 

 Bay, Wisconsin, in 1822. A new edition of the 

 Assembly's shorter catechism, in the "Moheak- 

 unnuk or Stockbridge Indian language, " was 

 printed about this time, probably before the 

 second removal in 1822. Mr. Sergeant wished 

 to have his people supplied with useful books 

 before their departure, and endeavored to pro- 

 cure a quantity of Eliot's Indian bibles for 

 them to distribute. He himself was not able to 

 go with them, on account of failing health, but 

 his son accompanied them to their final destina- 

 tion, and saw them settled in their new homes. 



Series. A series | of | catechisms ; [ oth- 

 erwise, I q'jeamooltoovrhwee uhkagh- 

 keendwaukunul | wauk | nurhkootaa- 

 seakeal, | &c., &c., &c. | 



Toronto : | printed by Thomas Hugh 

 Bentley, | No. 9, Wellington buildings, 

 King street. | 1852. 



Printed cover as above, title as above verso 

 blank 1 1. text entirely in the Muncie language 

 pp. 3-16, 16°, 



On p. 16 is a missionary hymn. 



Copies seen : Eames, Pilling, Powell. 



Sermones de Monseigneur Baraga. See 

 Garin (A.M.) 



Sermons : 



Abnaki See Lesueur (F. E.) 



Abnaki Mathevet (J. C.) 



Abnaki Virot(C.F.) 



Chippewa Baraga (F.) 



Cree Garin (A.M.) 



Cree German (O.) 



Cree V6gr6ville (V. T.) 



Delaware Luckenbach (A.) 



Delaware Zeisberger (D.) 



Massachusetts Cotton (J.) 



Massachusetts Howwoswe (Z.) 



Menomonee Derenthal (O.) 



Monomonee Krake (B.) 



Menomonee Zephyrin Engelhardt 



(C.A.) 



Montagnais Coquart (C. G.) 



Montagnais Maurice (J. B.) 



Sermons — Continued. 



Nipissing Bellefeuille (C. de). 



Nipissing D6p6ret (E.) 



Nipissing Guichart de Kersident 



(Y.F.) 

 Mpissing Mathevet (J. C.) 



Nipissing Ki chard (P.) 



Nipissing Thavenet (— ). 



Sewall (R. K.) Wawenoc Numerals,^ 

 Maine. 



In Historical Magazine, second series, vol. 

 3, pp. 179-180, Morrisania, 1868, sm. 4°. 



Contains the numerals 1-20, copied from "a 

 communication made to the Maine Historical 

 Society, last winter, by H. K. Sewall, Esq. of 

 Wiscasset, relative to the lost tribe of the Wa- 

 wenoc Indians, in Maine." The article is 

 signed "Brunovicus" [Rev. E. Ballard J. 



See Trumbull (J, H) for a paper on the same 

 subject. 

 Shahguhnahshe ahnuhmeahwine [Chip- 

 pewa]. See O'Meara (F. A.) 



Shau-wau-nowe Kesauthwau. [Shaw- 

 anoe Sun.] 



[Shawanoe baptist mission press. 

 1835-1839.] (*) 



Printed by Jotham Meeker until 1837, and 

 by Mr. J. G.Pratt from 1837 to 1839, when it 

 was discontinued on account of the illness of 

 the printer and his family. The following ac- 

 count is given of it in McCoy's History of Bap- 

 tist Indian Missions: 



" March 1st, 1835, the first number of a semi- 

 monthly newspaper, printed at the Shawanoe 

 mission house, in the Shawanoe language, was 

 issued. This was the first newspaper ever 

 published exclusively in an Indian language. 

 It was entitled Shau-tvau-nowe Kesauthwau, 

 (Shawanoe Sun.) It was small, only a quarter 

 sheet, was written upon the new system, and 

 edited by Mr. Lykins. The disadvantages un- 

 der which it was prepared for the press were 

 great, and the labour considerable ; which ac- 

 counts for its diminutive size. 



"Many of the Shawanoes had, by this time, 

 become readers of their own language, and in 

 this periodical they soon took a deep interest, 

 and sometimes contributed matter for it from 

 their own pens. These writers were adults, 

 who lately had been wholly ignorant of letters 

 in any language, and who had recently learned 

 to read and write their own. This they had 

 done without regular attendance or instruc- 

 tion, which, in their circumstances, could only 

 be imparted by occasional visits. The facility 

 with which they acquired a knowedge of read- 

 ing, and some of them of writing, was alone at- 

 tributable to the simplicity of the new system." 



In another part of the same book, under the 

 yearl839,Mr. McCoy adds : " There was issued, 

 until late difficulties occasioned a suspension, a 

 small monthly paper, of only a quarter sheet, 

 edited by Mr. Lykins, entitled ' Shawanowe^ 

 iTegauf/itoaw —Shawanoe Sun." 



