Excerpt from Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley In these preliminary papers, the orthography employed by Mr. Riggs and Professor Turner in the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary published by the Smithsonian Institution, has been adopted in part. It is to be hoped that the Smithsonian Institution, which takes the deepest interest in all researches relating to the aboriginal inhabitants of our country, will recommend some uniform system, and reduce all the Indian languages ...
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Excerpt from Contributions to the Ethnography and Philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley In these preliminary papers, the orthography employed by Mr. Riggs and Professor Turner in the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary published by the Smithsonian Institution, has been adopted in part. It is to be hoped that the Smithsonian Institution, which takes the deepest interest in all researches relating to the aboriginal inhabitants of our country, will recommend some uniform system, and reduce all the Indian languages to a single standard of pronunciation. In the following vocabularies, the consonants are used with their common English sounds, when it could be done, and this is understood when not expressly mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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