Another Chinook Jargon dictionary [fwd from D Lewis]

[Leanne Riding]

One of these, or a variant of it, seems to be listed in an excerpted 
section of a Pilling work recently added to Project Guteberg:

James Constantine Pilling, Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The 
Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology (1881).

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17262/17262-0.txt

The entry for Belden is:

=Belden=(_Lieut._ George P.). Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon.
    27 ll. 12^o. Alphabetically arranged.
---- Dictionary of the Snake, Crow, and Sioux, alphabetically arranged.
    182 pp. 8^o. Collected in 1868.

George Belden wrote a book about his experiences with the Sioux. It can 
be found at the Making of America website of the University of Michigan.

http://name.umdl.umich.edu/abj1451.0001.001

Based on a quick skim of the table of contents, I'd say he was in the 
Chinook Jargon part of the world about 1866-7.

- Leanne

David Robertson wrote:

>[I'm forwarding this fascinating message from Dave Lewis.  It didn't seem 
>to have gone through to the CHINOOK listserv, although he sent a copy 
>there.  I'll have to check whether the email address for posting to the 
>list has been changed!  --  Dave Robertson]
>
>Klahowya all,
>
>The SWORP program has recieved from the National Anthropological 
>Archives two dictionaries of Chinook Jargon.
>
>The first is MS 263, Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, with Historical 
>Note, 44pp dated Oct. 25 1868. The dictionary is arranged alphabetically 
>and is labeled as if Granville Stuart is the author, but originates from 
>Lieut. G.P. Belden. Reading inside of the NAA description, the first 
>page is faded but reads "The Chinnook Jargon, North-western Tribes of 
>Indians, Oregon, Washington & British Columbia on the North Pacific 
>Coast, Lieut. G. P. Belden, 2nd Cav.
>
>The second book is MS 264, Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon, Collected 
>by Lieut. G. P. Belden, arranged by J. Curtin. n.d. 53pp. This is also 
>arranged alphabetically.
>
>Has anyone heard of these dictionaries before? I see mention of the 
>Granville dictionary online but is the Granville dictionary simply 
>Granville publishing Belden's original dictionary?
>
>David [Lewis]
>
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