10 Rare and Scarce Native American Language Bibles - Collection

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10 Rare and Scarce Native American Language Bibles - Collection:
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1. 1883 Dakota Bible - American Bible Society. Rebound. American Bible Society, New York. Dakota Wowapi Wakan. Translated out of the Original Tongues; by Thomas S. Williamson and Stephen R. Riggs, Missionaries. Measures at 6.25\" x 7.25”

2. 1829 Gospel According to Saint Luke, translated into the Seneca Tongue. American Bible Society. Double pagination, with Seneca and English text on facing pages. Two title pages. Harris, Thompson S. (trans). New York: Printed for the American Bible Society 1829. 149 pages. Contemporary calf. Rubbed, very good. Harris was a missionary to the Seneca. He also translated the Gospel of Matthew and the Sermon on the Mount into the Seneca language. American Imprints 37782.

3. 1871 MicMac New Testament. Good condition. Micmac belongs to the Algonquian family of languages, and is spoken by a tribe whose members are found chiefly in Nova Scotia. The earlier editions are printed in the character used for I. Pitman’s system of phonetic spelling. Those from 1870 onwards are printed in roman character with diacritical marks. British and Foreign Bible Society. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island

4. 1842-1859 Cherokee New Testament. Park Hill Mission Press. Present are 13 separately published, some first edition works containing 23 books of the New Testament in Cherokee using Sequoyah\'s syllabary (generally called the \"Cherokee alphabet\") and printed at the famous Park Hill mission press. A Composite New Testament in Cherokee. Worcester and Boudinot. The Gospel according to Matthew, Edwin Archer, pr., 1850. Mark. Cherokee. 1857. Worcester and Foreman. Luke. Worcester and Boudinot. John. Translated into the Cherokee language. Acts. 1842. Worcester and Boudinot. Romans. Edwin Archer 1859. Corinthians 1858. Worcester and Foreman. Philippians 1859. The Epistles of Paul to Timothy. Creating composite New Testaments composed of mixed editions of the separately published Gospels and other books of the New Testament in Cherokee was a common practice at the Park Hill Mission Press in the middle of the 19th century. The main translators were Samuel A. Worcester, a medical missionary, and Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee who had been educated at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut.

5. 1880 Circa Ojibwa Old Testament. Covers Exodus 16 - Deuteronomy 30. rebound in gilt modern red cloth. part of the Algonquian language family in Canada and Massachusetts.

6. 1861 Crees (Kristeneaux) Bible. 1st Complete bible in North American Indian Language after Eliot Indian Henry E. Luhrs. Bible translated into the Language of the Kristeneaux or Crees of North America, by William Mason and Others. Published by British and Foreign Bible Society, London. The distinctive Cree Syllabary was invented in 1841 by Wesleyan missionary James Evans. Darlow & Moule note that this translation into Western Cree was prepared by W. Mason, assisted by his wife, Sophia Mason, H. Steinhauer (half-Indian), and others. 2 volumes in 1. 855 pages. Full embossed brown leather. Darlow & Moule 3130.

7. 1867 Choctaw Bible. American Bible Society. FIRST EDITION. Bible was owned by Choctaw Nation Courts and used to swear in various judges and officials and carried heavy genealogical information for the local reservation, including one Judge Naaman Nelson. Portion of the OT. Translation attributed to Byington, Cyrus and Capt. Joseph Dukes. Chata Pintetuk on spine. Amazing Provenance in this extremely rare Native American translated Old Testament. Pentateuch only. 4.5” x 7.5”. 558 pages

8. 1929 Eskimo (Alaskan) Bible. Gospels and Selections only. Alaskan Eskimo. American Bible Society, New York. 270 pages

9. Early 1871 Hawaiian New Testament. 3rd edition. American Bible Society. Tooled covers. Good binding. 339 pages. American Bible Society, New York

10. 1979 Apache English Bible - New Testament. 1979 Apache Bik\'Ehgo\'Ihi\'Nan Biyati\' English Bible. Apache Language.