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The American Language Reprint (ALR) series began in 1996 as a vehicle for publishing antique, obscure, and generally unavailable short linguistic records of individual Native American languages and dialects. Now, with our ALR Supplement Series, Evolution is pleased to finally provide an arena for the publication of larger, more comprehensive works from the golden age of American Indian philology—many of which have already furnished material for the original ALR series. The ALR Supplement Series reprints valuable compendia that span several languages, time periods, or tribal groupings and that come from a time when linguistic data collection and analysis was regarded as an integral part of scientific exploration. From Benjamin Smith Barton's classic New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (1798) to Albert Gallatin's scholarly masterpiece A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes (1836), each of these titles is a treasure trove of American Indian linguistic data, often featuring dozens of languages of dialects and drawing from both printed as well as manuscript and oral sources. Some of these titles have not been reprinted at all since their original appearance but are still cited even today as pioneering studies in the comparison and classification of American Indian languages.

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Volume 1 A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America Albert Gallatin, 1836      Originally published under the auspices of the American Antiquarian Society in 1836, A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America is a monumental compendia of Native American language. Authored by statesman, politician, and scholar Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), it is among the finest systematic collections of Native American ethnology and linguistics of its day. Containing invaluable information on some 81 tribes, the volume commences with four sections of introductory matter giving an overview of the history of the various North American tribal groups divided by geography (Section 1: Indian Tribes North of the United States; Section 2: Algonkin-Lenape and the Iroquois; Section 3: Southern Indians; Section 4: Indians West of the Mississippi). Section 5 covers general observations on social and cultural practices and Section 6 begins an in-depth discussion of Indian languages.      Nearly half of this volume is made up of an Appendix dedicated to grammatical notices and vocabularies from dozens of tribes, including the Choctaw, Delaware, Micmac, Wyandot, Cherokee, Eskimo, Massachusett, Sioux, and the various nations of the Iroquois. Of particular note is the Comparative Vocabulary of Fifty-Three Nations which presents a 60-page table of Native words and terms from tribes such as the Ottawa, Nanticoke, Shawnee, Miami, Sauk, Osage, Omaha, Natchez, Pawnee, and dozens of others arranged for easy comparison. Also included is a further comparison of 16 Native languages including Penobscot, Minsi, Nootka, Souriquois, Huron, Woccon, and others. Finally, several short miscellaneous wordlists are included, such as vocabularies of Blackfoot, Powhatan, Cayuga, Iowa, Crow, Shoshonee, Cheyenne, Chinook, Caddo, Seneca, Mohawk, and many others. January 2008 ~ 430 pp. ~ hardback ~ ISBN: 978-1-889758-80-0 ~ $85.00

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