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A Key Into the Language of America: The Tomaquag Museum Edition

A Key Into the Language of America: The Tomaquag Museum Edition

Williams, Roger
Spears, Lorén

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General ReferenceAnthropologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 1594163146
ISBN13: 9781594163142
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Published: Aug 15 2019
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
A New Edition of One of the Most Important Cultural Artifacts of European and Indigenous American Contact
Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America, first published in 1643, is one of the most important artifacts of early Indigenous American culture. In it, 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 Key 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, Williams's Key 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.

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