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**List: Cree Ministry
the Bible ( the Bible )
Cree: Coastal...
"The Cree Indians, originally a warlike
tribe famous for their
raids upon the Sioux and Blackfoot, were nonetheless friendly
to
French and British traders in the early
days of North American
the 18th century, though their population has since dwindled.
The most widely spoken Indian language in North America,
Cree is a Central Algonquian tongue.
The Coastal dialect of Cree is spoken on the eastern shore of
Hudson Bay and James Bay, Quebec, Canada." --1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only]
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**File: Cree Bible History (3)--1860 S.
Bagster [Info only]
"1921 John BFBS
Translated by Mr. & Mrs. W. G Walton of the
Anglican Church in
Canada."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
EVANS SYLLABIC CHARACTER "1930" John 2:1-4 unknown.]
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Cree: Eastern...
"Once spoken in western Ontario, the Eastern or
Swampy dialect
of Cree is no longer used. It had been replaced in the east by
Moose Cree and in the west by Plains Cree."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only]
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"1853 Matthew Church MS, London
1856 Mark John 1 John BFBS
1856 1 John (syllabic character) CMS, London
1876 Psalms BFBS, London
Translated by Mr. & Mrs. James Hunter, CMS, and Henry Budd,
earliest convert among the Cree."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info
only:
ROMAN CHARACTER "1855" Mark 1:2 unknown.]
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Cree: Moose...
"Moose Cree is spoken over a wide area of northern
Ontario and
Quebec."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1859 Gospels Moose Fort, Hudson Bay
1875 Psalms Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowldege
1876 New Testament BFBS
Translated by John Horden, Church MS. His translation of Jonah
may
have been published as early as 1854." --1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only]
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"1897 Romans 1899 Galatians
Oonikup, Northwest
Territory
Translator unknown."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
EVANS SYLLABIC CHARACTER "1931" Mark 1:2 unknown.]
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Cree: Western...
"The Western, or Plains, dialect of Cree is
spoken from western
Ontario to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It is supposed
that at one time members of this branch allied with Siouan
tribes and moved into the upper Great Plains, although they are
no longer found so far south.
Cree was reduced to written form by James
Evans, a Wesleyan
my., who began work among the Cree in 1840. He learned
their language, but since the Indians had no writing he could
communicate the Gospel to them only
orally. Noting that the
Cree language had only nine consonants and three vowels, he
contrived an alphabet of syllables, or syllabary, composed of 42
symbols, and began to translate
John’s Gospel. The
printing of
these Scriptures has become a my. legend - for Evans had
no paper, ink, type, or press. First he carved each of the symbols
from wood with a pocket knife, and from these wood blocks he
made clay molds. Then he melted the lead lining of tea chests
and poured it into the clay shapes, thus creating metal copies of all
the signs in the Cree syllabary with which he could print. A press
used for treating furs became his printing press, ink was made
from soot and fish oil, and the pliable inner bark of the birch tree
served as paper. The pages of James Evans’ Good News were
sewn with leather strips and bound in deer skin. The writing
proved easy to learn, and so the Indians said: ‘The birch
bark
began to speak the words of the Great Spirit.’" --1000 Tongues,
1972 [Info only]
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"1847 John Rossville MP, Manitoba
Translated by William Mason, Wesleyan my., later Church
MS."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1857 Ephesians James 2 Peter
1 John Rossville MP,
Manitoba
Translated by William Mason and Thomas Hurlburt."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1859 New Testament 1862 Bible
BFBS
Translated by William and Sophia Mason, H. Steinhauer, and
J. Sinclair. This was the second Bible printed in an American
Indian
language."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1896 Mark 1897 John
MP, Athabasca Landing
Revised text and script by Richard Young and George Holmes."--
1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1904 New Testament 1905
Psalms 1908 Bible BFBS
Revised by J. A. Mackay; many times reprinted."--1000 Tongues,
1972 [Info only:
EVANS SYLLABIC CHARACTER "1904" Mark 1:2 unknown.]
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Cree: Western, York...
"The York Indians of Rupert’s Land, mentioned
on the title page
of the Rev. Mason’s tiny Psalm-book, were the segment of the
Western Cree people with whom he came in contact while
serving at the York Mission (York Factory, Manitoba) on the
western shore of Hudson Bay, at the mouth of the Nelson River.
Their language is a form of Western Cree, differing from that
found in the Western Cree Bible."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info
only]
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"1860 Psalms Society for the Promotion of
Christian Knowledge,
London
Translated by William Mason, Wesleyan my., later Church
MS."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
EVANS SYLLABIC CHARACTER "Hymn 23 1860" unknown.
Update--"a hymn book" only.]
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