Here, also is the full, recently-organized suite of links to webpages by me discussing and translating into 1600s Massachusett and related languages:
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1600s Massachusett Language and Modern Massachusett Language
Translations of Texts into 1600s Massachusett by Me
,, 90 ,, List of Recent Translations by Me into 1600s Massachusett (the Thanksgiving Indian Language)
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,, 97 ,, Ice Age Mammals Text 2: An Source Text. Translation into 1600s Massachusett aka Thanksgiving Indian Language
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,, 91 ,, Fog Text translated by me into 1600s Massachusett: Martha's Vineyard Indian Myths from Drake 1884
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,, 88 ,, Crab Text Wampanoag Fairy Tales about Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod
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,, 87 ,, Algonquian Myth Preserves Memory of Ice Age Gigantic Animals (Micmac, Mi'kmaq): Translated into 1600s Massachusett
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,, 131 ,, Flying Squirrel Text: 1600s Masssachusett Translation
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,, 74 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: How Glooskap (Moshup) Made the Birds: Comparison with Whale Episodes in Pinocchio and the Book of Jonah
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,, 73 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: How Glooskap (Moshup) Made the Birds: Introduction Essay
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,, 72 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: How Glooskap (Moshup) Made the Birds: Calendar
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,, 71 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: How Glooskap (Moshup) Made the Birds: Glossed Myth, Discussion, Grammar
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Studies of Original 1600s Massachusett Texts
,, 67 ,, Links to 1600s Thanksgiving Indian Language Bilingual Texts Online
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,, 89 ,, Partial Gloss of 1643 Indian Encyclopedia "A Key into the Language of America", Massachusett Language @@@
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,, 99 ,, Bibliography on 1643 Williams' "A Key into the Language of America" : Massachusett Language (aka Thanksgiving Indian Language)
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,, 98 ,, Appendices to 1643 Gloss for 1600s Massachusett Language
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,, 143 ,, Deut 28 from 1688 Massachusett, 1611 English, 1582 English
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,, 62 ,, Gloss of Psalm 7 from the 1663 "Thanksgiving Indian Language" Bible
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,, 142 ,, Psalm 58: The Snail Psalm, 1600s Massachusett: 1709, 1611, 1582
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,, 141 ,, Psalm 78 in 1600s Massachusett: The Frog Psalm
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,, 85 ,, Psalm 148 in 1685 Massachusett: Nature and Animal Vocab
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,, 144 ,, Scourging and Crowning of Jesus in Matthew: 1685 Massachusett Bible: Matthew 27: 26-31
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,, 68 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language Law Code Sections: From "Hatchet" 1705
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,, 70 ,, 1639 Thanksgiving Indian Language Bilingual: Intial Section of "The Sincere Convert"
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,, 108 ,, NWM 48: The 1735 Will of Gay Head Wampanoag Minister Peter Ohquanhit
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,, 112 ,, NWM 50: A 1753 Account of Mashpee Indian Community Love amid Plague
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,, 113 ,, NWM 97-98: Land Grants with a Mysterious Stone Fort: 1700s Algonquian Massachusett
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,, 114 ,, NWM 138: Indian Gun Ownership: 1700s Algonquian Massachusett Language
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,, 76 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: 1655 William Reed Map of New England
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,, 109 ,, Discovery of Possible References to Moshup and St. Christopher the Giant in 1600s seals and coins of the Massachusett Bay Colony
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Grammars and Dictionaries
,, 59 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language Massachusett Language of Massachusetts, USA
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,, 92 ,, 1600s Massachusett Quick Grammar 7 3 2018
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,, 102 ,, 1660s The Indian Grammar Begun: Bibliography (1600s Massachusett)
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,, 94 ,, 1600s Massachusett Dictionary aka Thanksgiving Indian Language
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,, 130 ,, 1600s Massachusett Short Dictionary with Analysis
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,, 127 ,, Massachusett Dictionaries Headword Lists: Trumbull 1903 and Cotton 1750s
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,, 136 ,, Animal Vocabulary 1600s Massachusett
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,, 134 ,, 1600s Massachusett Ship Vocabulary
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,, 103 ,, Plant Lists for 1600s Massachusett "Thanksgiving Indian Language"
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,, 101 ,, King Philip's War Miniatures: 1600s Massachusett Vocabulary with Art
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,, 69 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language Lesson 4 14 2018: Feather, pen, I found, I will find, eggs, Sources
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Modern Massachusett (Wôpanâak, Wampanoag)
,, 93 ,, Baird Modern Massachusett (Wôpanâak, Wampanoag) Short Dictionary
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,, 75 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: Two Sides to a Modern Massachusett Orthography, Minority Language Documentation Across Time
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Projects I associate with the 1600s Massachusett Language
,, 146 ,, 1769 Animal Images and Words: "A Description of Three Hundred Animals", All Images (Incomplete)
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,, 145 ,, 1600s Polyglot Picture Dictionary: All Images from Pictus Orbis 1705
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1500s 1600s Powhatan Language
,, 82 ,, 1612 Map: 1612 Strachey Powhatan Empire King List and People List from Chapter 4 (Powhatan Language, Others)
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,, 81 ,, 1612 Map: Meaning of Indian Words
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,, 80 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: 1612 Captain John Smith Map APPENDIX
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,, 79 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: Adventure Map from 1624 The Generall Historie of Virginia Text with Glosses
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,, 78 ,, 1612 Map: Pronunciations of Indian Words
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,, 77 ,, Thanksgiving Indian Language: 1612 Captain John Smith Map of New England Transcription
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1500s 1600s Carolina Algonquian Language
,, 100 ,, Bibliography on "Roanoke Colony Indian Language" aka Carolina Algonquian Language and Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Other Algonquian Languages
,, 66 ,, Overview of Colonial Algonquian Languages, Algonquian, and other Native American Languages
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,, 115 ,, Some Helps for the Indians 1658 Bilingual Catechism: Complete Online Version (Eastern Algonquian Conneticut Language)
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,, 124 ,, E Algonquian Nanticoke Vocabulary, 1792, Brinton: Complete. With Bibliography.
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,, 96 ,, Animal words documented for Passamaquoddy but not so well for any other Algonquian Language
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,, 95 ,, Ojibwe Marsh Animal and Plant Words with other Algonquian / Massachusett Etymology
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,, 110 ,, Select Flowers and Insects in Modern Ojibwe (sometimes Passamaquoddy) and Select Lists for New England
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Here's some select pictures for illustration. These are both colonial images which I recently discovered as probably depicting the main god of the 1600s Eastern Algonquian peoples: Glooskap to the Mi'kmaq, Moshup to the Wampanoag. Otherwise, though, we have very little account from any Eastern Algonquian people (USA and Canada coast from Florida to Iceland) of their native Pagan religions. If anyone wrote them down, it hasn't survived. Instead what we have are many fairy tales from centuries later, told by the children of converts to various Christian religions. And it's clear the accounts have been altered from their original forms, though it's impossible to know exactly how. With vast comparative mythology and folklore study, it's a little possible to guess.
If I could guess at the mentality behind not recording their religions, if that's what happened, the writings show a sense of respect, as for Greek mythology, but also of disregard, as if writing it down and printing it wasn't a good idea. Today I think we would disagree, though printing in the colonies back then was really expensive. They notably did translate the whole Protestant Bible into 1600s Massachusett. Which is a statement, maybe. Meanwhile, and some will boo here, the Spanish did make very lengthy records of native Paganisms, though perhaps often also after conversion within one or more generations. The 1980s saw the decipherment of vast Mayan Hieroglyphic texts which are all pre-1492: But it's not like Cuneiform for giving us any mostly complete narratives. Instead, it's mostly just timelines with names and events. We have the Popul Vuh - a huge core myth - but it's from post-1492.
It seems to me that as a whole, Europeans approached North America as if it was the Old World or Afro-Eurasia when it was not. Without documenting the Pagan religions they encountered, they all just disappeared and changed into something else, and didn't leave behind them anywhere a huge body of writings like that of Ancient Greece and Rome. My research indicates that sizable libraries of texts existed in Ancient Mayaland and among the Eastern Algonquians - yet we know the Mayan ones were forcibly burned by the Spanish and it's not clear what happend to the Eastern Algonquian libraries. They seem to have been secretly destroyed by Indians and or non-Indians, maybe as a part of conversion to Christianity but maybe because of Pagan ideas relating to post-1492 events and unprecedented catastrophes.
(Most of the records of Eastern Algonquian texts - all seemingly non-writing symbol texts used to remind the reader of accompanying memorized narratives - are in 1600s accounts of these people, like those of Captain John Smith and John Lederer. And seemingly previously overlooked by scholars because not taken in context of similar accounts, namely of Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Hieroglyphic and the Ojibwe birchbark symbols. Along these lines, I have also found colonial accounts claiming that there existed a quipu writing system, though no quipus support this, although few survive.)
I suspect someone wrote a lot of it down and it's in some archive somewhere in the world. But maybe if such a thing was done, again, it has not survived. Which is amazing to me but I guess it's how it goes. Colonial works like A Key into the Language of America express interest and give summaries of the local Eastern Algonquian religions but they're very short and most of the surviving letters and other texts say nothing. And most of 1600s 1700s even 1800s USA and Canada Paganism seems like that, unwritten. Yet studying what is written and comparing it with archaeology and what is today practiced as the descendant or revival Pagan religions - this is something I have found very interesting.
I will say that it is interesting to try to compare the ancient Indian Pagan religions with the modern ones. Anyone who has undertaken extensive comparative religion study using primary sources and original languages may know that to which I am making reference.
These images are Captain John Smith's 1612 map of Virginia and the oldest seal of Massachusetts Bay Colony. I forget if these might depict what the Jamestown and Plymouth colony surrounding Powhatan and Wampanoag Indians thought their versions of Glooskap looked like. See my article on this topic for more. But I'm thinking these might be what the Indians thought Glooskap looked like because their apparel is otherwise consistent with what I'd expect.
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