Book Announcement: Chew's Vocabulary of Tuscarora (1845)

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Evolution Publishing is pleased to announce publication of the following
volume from the American Language Reprints (ALR) series:

Volume 28:

Chew's Vocabulary of Tuscarora
William Chew and Gilbert Rockwood, 1845

This 350 word vocabulary was commissioned by Henry Schoolcraft and filled by
William Chew and Gilbert Rockwood in 1845, at the Tuscarora Mission in New
York State. This edition makes use of both published versions in
Schoolcraft's Report to the Secretary of State (1846) and Notes on the
Iroquois (1847). Also included is a 100 word vocabulary of Tuscarora prepared
by Nicholas and James Cassick of the War Department, printed in Albert
Gallatin's Synopsis of the Indian Tribes (1836).

November 2002 ~ 71 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-26-4 ~ $30.00

Evolution Publishing is dedicated to preserving and consolidating early
primary source records of Native American language with the goal of making
them more accessible and readily available to the academic community and the
public at large.

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