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(INDIANS). BARAGA, FREDERIC. A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Explained in English. This Language is Spoken by the Chippewa Indians, as Also by the Otawas, Patawatamis and Algonquins, with Little Difference. For the Use of Missionaries, and other persons living among the above mentioned Indians. [Two parts in one]. Cincinnati, [Ohio]: Printed for Jos. A. Hemann, 1853. 1st ed. 12mo. 7, 662 pp. Old calf backed marbled boards, spine repaired. Inner margins of first few leaves reinforced. A very good copy. $2,250.00
Pilling, p. 27. Sabin 3247. A Roman Catholic missionary, Baraga arrived in Cincinnati in 1831, and in 1835 was transferred to the western shores of Lake Superior, to minister to the Chippewas. "During the long winters of this northern clime, Father Baraga applied himself to the study of the Chippewa language, the universal dialect of the Northwest. He prepared several religious books in thsi dialect, some of which were published in Paris, others in Detroit and Cincinnati. But his most useful works, still depended upon by all Chippewa scholars, are his Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language (Detroit 1850), and his Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language (Cincinnati 1853)." --DAB.