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THB[NATIVE AMERICAN] Dakota Bible, Exodus & Leviticus "Hdinanpapi"
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Thomas Williamson, translator. Hdinanpapi, Wowapi Mowis Owa Inonpa Kin, Dakota Iapi en Pejuta Wicasta Kaga. Exodus, The Second Book of Moses, in the Dakota Language. New York: American Bible Society, 1869.
18mo, 4 x 6 1/2 in., pp. 3-47. Text in Dakota. Original embossed roan leather, gilt board title.
FIRST EDITION TRANSLATION OF EXODUS & LEVITICUS INTO DAKOTA SIOUX. A Bibliographical Check List of North and Middle American Indian Linguistics, Dakota 28; Darlow & Moule 3142 & 3143 (vol. II, pt. 1, p. 276); Pilling p. 78.
Thomas Smith Williamson (1800-1879) was the son of a South Carolina planter who moved to Ohio in 1805, as he was determined to emancipate the enslaved people he inherited. Williamson studied medicine, graduating from Yale in 1824.
After the death of three of their young children, Williamson and his wife, Margaret Poage, became committed to missionary work and were appointed by the American Board in 1834 to Native Americans west of the Mississippi River. They established a new board and were settled in present-day Minnesota among the Dakota by 1835. Williamson served the Dakota for the rest of his life, particularly devoting himself to a complete translation of the Bible into the Santee dialect. Working with fellow missionary Stephen Return Riggs (1812-1883), they completed a translation of the entire Bible in early 1879, just three months before his death. Published in portions, this volume is the first Sioux language edition of Exodus and Leviticus.
RARE. No copies have sold at auction since 1979. OCLC locates 19 copies.
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