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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875554115-08042003><FONT
color=#0000ff> > </FONT></SPAN>My understanding is that Dorsey
produced a book called Ponka wa-ba-ru A B C (or something like that) which was a
reading book in Ponca. I haven't seen this but I'd e amazed if it didn't have
some religious material in it. There was a book produced in Kaw (called
something like "The First Kauzas Book") which was witten in an orthography of
the sort devised by Rev. Jotham Meeker. This appeared in the 1840s, I
think, and no copy of the original 300 printed is known to exist. As far
as I know, no other book of ANY sort was ever produced in Kansa (or in Quapaw
for that matter), but maybe Bob Rankin has superior info on
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875554115-08042003><FONT
color=#0000ff>I've never run across a copy of the little book in Kaw. wish
I had. I didn't find any trace of it in the archives of the KS State
Historical Society library in Topeka. If 300 copies were originally
produced, there must be one SOMEwhere.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=875554115-08042003><FONT
color=#0000ff>Bob</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>