Book Announcement: Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware (1630-1798)

[EvolPub at AOL.COM]

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

Volume 29:

Early Fragments of Minsi Delaware
John Heckewelder, Thomas Jefferson, et al. 1630-1798

This volume collects the earliest written examples of the Minsi dialect of
Delaware or Lenape. The volume consists of Rev. John Heckewelder's Minsi
vocabulary, collected in the late 1700s and totaling 100 entries. A
collection of 80 words of the language compiled by scholar/president Thomas
Jefferson is also included. Several scattered linguistic fragments collected
from Minsi tribes such as the Manhattans and Hackensacks by Benjamin Smith
Barton, David de Vries, Jasper Danckaerts, Adrian van der Donck, and others
round out the volume.

December 2002 ~ 65 pp. ~ clothbound ~ ISBN 1-889758-31-0 ~ $28.00

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

For further information on this and other titles in the ALR series:

http://www.evolpub.com/ALR/ALRhome.html

Evolution Publishing
evolpub at aol.com