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100 1 $aWilliams, Roger,$d1604?-1683,$eauthor.
245 12 $aA key into the language of America /$cRoger Williams ; Dawn Dove, Sandra Robinson, Lorén Spears, Dorothy Hermann Papp, and Kathleen J. Bragdon, editors.
250 $aTomaquag Museum edition.
264 1 $aYardley, Pennsylvania :$bWestholme Publishing,$c[2019]
264 4 $c©2019
300 $axxxvii, 177 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aList of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction to the Tomaquag Museum edition. A key into the language of America : Roger Williams's introduction -- Directions for the use of the language -- Greetings -- Eating and entertainment -- Sleep and lodging -- Numbers -- Family relations -- The household -- Their persons and parts of the body -- Communication and news -- Time of the day -- Seasons of the year -- Travel -- The heavens and heavenly lights -- Weather -- The winds -- Fowl -- The earth and its fruits -- Beasts and cattle -- The sea -- Fishand fishing -- Nakedness and clothing -- Religion and the soul -- Government and justice -- Marriage -- Coin -- Buying and selling -- Debts and trusting -- Hunting -- Gaming -- War -- Paintings -- Sickness -- Death and burial. References and suggested reading -- About the editors.
520 $aFirst published in 1643, this book is one of the most important artifacts of early Indigenous American culture. In it, Roger Williams recorded the day-to-day experience of the Narragansett people of Rhode Island in their own words, the first documentation of an American Indian language in English. Williams's book can be read at many levels because of its historical, literary, political, and religious significance. Its greatest value, though, is its intimate portrait of the Narragansett and their linguistic neighbors in the early years of European colonial settlement, before disease, dislocation, warfare, in particular, King Philip's War;and colonial interference had diminished their population and power in the region. An extraordinary achievement, this book gives us a contemporary account of Narragansett family life, of their sociability and skill in business, their dress, foodways, and the farming, fishing, and hunting that formed the basis of their sustenance practices. This new Tomaquag Museum edition includes for the first time cultural commentary provided by the Narragansett Tribe as well as modern linguistic information provided by a leading authority in the study of American Indian languages.
650 0 $aNarragansett Indians$vEarly works to 1800.
650 0 $aNarragansett language$vGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.$vEarly works to 1800.
650 7 $aNarragansett Indians.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01032925
650 7 $aNarragansett language.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01032926
655 7 $aEarly works.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411636
655 7 $aGlossaries, vocabularies, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423786
700 1 $aDove, Dawn,$eeditor.
700 1 $aRobinson, Sandra$c(Environmental scientist),$eeditor.
700 1 $aSpears, Lorén M.,$d1966-$eeditor.
700 1 $aPapp, Dorothy Herman,$eeditor.
700 1 $aBragdon, Kathleen Joan,$eeditor.
852 00 $bglx$hE99.N16$iW67 2019