Dhegiha Hymnals and Bible Portions

[Henning Garvin]

Don’t think this will be a tremendous help to you, but James Stucki
translated Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John plus a portion of Exdous into
Ho-Chunk.  The book is tremendously rare, but my tribe found one and paid
handsomely for it.  Hope this at elast gives hope that there may be one out
there.


Henning Garvin
UW-Madison
Anthropology/Linguistics



>From: "Justin McBride" <jmcbride at kayserv.net>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
>Subject: Dhegiha Hymnals and Bible Portions
>Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:28:37 -0500
>Ho!
>
>I have a question for the Dhegihanists out there.  I recently received a
>request from a hospital chaplain in Chicago for information on hymnals or
>Bibles (and/or Bible portions) in the Kaw language.  I told him that to the
>best of my knowledge no such texts existed for Kaw.  But later it really
>got me to wondering about James Owen Dorsey.  If Dorsey acheived enough
>fluency in Ponca to conduct church services, isn't it at least plausible
>that he devised some sort of hymn book and perhaps even translated Bible
>portions?  Unfortunately, I don't know nearly enough about the man or his
>work outside of Kaw to answer this question.  Did he ever do anything like
>this?  And even if he didn't, does anyone know if *any* documents like this
>exist for OP, OS, or QU (and perhaps KS, in case I overlooked something)?
>
>WíblahaN,
>-Justin McBride


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