New Indian sketches
By: By Rev. P.J. de Smet, S.J
Contributors: Making of America Project.
Series: Young people's library
Publisher: D.& J. Sadlier & co.
Published: 1865
Place of publication: New York [etc.]
Language: eng; nai
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Indians of North America.; Salish language -- Texts.; Catechisms, Salish.; Kootenai language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Genres: Texts.; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Description: The famed missionary's account of his travels as U.S. army chaplain during the Mormon hostilities of 1858-59, traversing the region from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearny and back, to the Pacific via Panama, Fort Vancouver and the northern Rockies, then east to St. Louis. Includes a partial vocabulary of the Skalzi tribe and a catechism as used by the Flathead, Kalispels, and Pend d'Oreilles with the English equivalent.
Table of contents: title: Life of Louise Sighouin; title: Indian sketches; title: The short Indian catechism in use among the Flatheads, Kalispels, Pends-d'Oreilles, and other Rocky Mountain Indians