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POTTAWATTOMIE.
"THE Pottawattomies formerly
resided in the islands called Noquet, near the entrance of Green Bay,
Lake Michigan, where they were to be found as late as the year 1671.
They afterwards removed to the
southern extremity of Lake Michigan, and some of them are still located in
the country near that lake.
Their language has become known in Europe through the medium of
a vocabulary furnished by
Smith Barton, a
Roman Catholic
catechism and prayer-book published at Baltimore, and a few works
on Christian and elementary
instruction, printed at the
Shawnee Baptist Mission-press.
It appears
that Pottawattomie is so closely connected with the
Ottawa and the
Chippeway that these
three lan-
guages may almost be regarded as cognate dialects of one language.
The only portion of the Scriptures
at present translated into Pottawattomie consists of the
Gospel according to St. Matthew and
the Acts
of the Apostles, of which an edition has been published at Louisville.
The translation was made by
Jonathan Lykins, and the orthography is regulated according to the artificial
and complex system
devised by Mr. Meeker."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second
Edition) Samuel Bagster [Info only]
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