num_pages: 791
description: 2 Volume An ed. of all known manuscript writings in the Massachusetts language by native speakers. Because of the significance of these materials for many fields &amp; areas of interest, basic linguistic, historical, &amp; ethnographic analyses are included. Massachusetts is an extinct Eastern Algonquian language spoken aboriginally &amp; in the Colonial period in what is now southeastern Massachusetts. The Indians speaking this language are those referred to as the Massachusetts, the Wampanoags (or Pokanokets), &amp; the Nausets, who inhabited the region encompassing the immediate Boston area &amp; the area east of Narragansett Bay, incl. Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Isl., Martha's Vineyard, &amp; Nantucket. Illus. with original documents. In 2 vol.
language: English
title: Native Writings in Massachusett
titlecomplete: Native Writings in Massachusett (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 185)
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publisher: Amer Philosophical Society