The Bible in the Life of the Indians of the United States
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The Bible in whole or in part has been printed in thirty-five languages of Indians north of Mexico. In five of these languages the whole Bible is in print, the Mohican or Massachusetts, the Dakota or Sioux, the Cree, the Eskimo of Labrador, and the Tuk-kuth- kutchin a tribe of the Northern Yukon Territory, Canada. In nine other languages the New Testament entire, and in twenty-one additional languages one or more books of the Bible have appeared. It is an interesting study to review in historic...al order 6 some of the most notable of these remarkable achievements in the translation and printing of the Holy Scriptures into the tongues of the native American race. The First American Bible, 1661 Eliot's Monumental Task The John Eliot Bible in the language of the Mohi- cans, whom we now know as the Stockbridge Indians, is notable in the great labor involved and the primacy which this Bible takes among all Indian transla- tions. Eliot's monumental task, the translation of the whole Bible into the Mohican tongue, the common language of the New England Indians, the compiling of a grammar and other language work, was a pro- digious labor.
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