THE DAIRYMAN'S DAUGHTER

by [Cherokee Language]: Richmond, Legh:

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Book desription: Park Hill, [Ok.]: Mission Press: J. Candy and E. Archer, printers, 1847.. [2],67pp. 12mo. Dbd. Minor foxing. Very good. A scarce Park Hill imprint, entirely in the Cherokee language and using Sequoyah's syllabary (generally called the "Cherokee alphabet"). Both texts in this volume, The DAIRYMAN'S DAUGHTER and BOB, THE CABIN-BOY, are translations of tracts from the American Tract Society. The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester (1798–1859) and Stephen Foreman (1807–81). As a young man living with his parents in New England, Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie, a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry and after he had been ordained, he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing, newspapers, and expanded literacy using Sequoyah's syllabary. Foreman was born in Georgia of a Cherokee mother and a white father. He was educated at Union Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Marysville College (Tenn.), and was ordained in 1835. He made the trek from his homeland to the West with the Cherokee, and spent his life at and near the Park Hill mission. HARGRETT, OKLAHOMA 113. PILLING, IROQUOIAN, p.53. PILLING, PROOF SHEETS 979. AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHEROKEE) 61.

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