Genesis ; or, The First book of Moses ...
Contributors: Foreman, Stephen, 1807-1881
Publisher: Mission Press, E. Archer, printer
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Park Hill
Language: chr
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Cherokee language; Texts; Iroquoian languages; Cherokee (Langue); Textes; Langues iroquoises
Other titles: First book of Moses.
Work titles: Bible Genesis Cherokee Worcester 1856
Notes: Title also in Cherokee.

Translated by Samuel Austin Worcester--Cf. Darlow & Moule (77770.B3), no. 2442.

According to the Annual reports of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions the printing of the Book of Genesis was begun in 1856 and completed in 1857.

Darlow & Moule, no. 2442

Hargrett, Oklahoma, 174

Pilling, Iroquoian, 171

Pilling, Proof Sheets, 4208

Ayer, Indian Linguistics (Cherokee), 2

Gilcrease, 51

Foreman, 7-8

The first book of the Old Testament, printed entirely in Cherokee characters (except the title page, which is bilingual). Issued by the Mission Press in Park Hill, Oklahoma. The translators were Samuel Austin Worcester (1798-1859) and Stephen Foreman (1807-81). As a young man living with his parents in New England, Worcester had met and become friends with Buck Oowatie, a Cherokee whose name among Anglos was Elias Boudinot. Worcester studied for the ministry and after he had been ordained, he requested a post among the Cherokee. Once there he set to introducing printing, newspapers, and expanded literacy using Sequoyah's syllabary. Foreman was born in Georgia of a Cherokee mother and a white fateher. He was educated at Union Seminary, Princeton Seminary, and Marysville College (Tenn.), and was ordained in 1835. He made the trek from his homeland to the West with the Cherokee, and spent his life at and near the Park Hill mission.

In Cherokee.