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Dictionary for the Natick language of the Narragansett Indians from the Rhode Island area of the United States

Table of Contents

Introduction by R. D. Madison and Karen Lentz MadisonAnnouncementIntroduction by Edward Everett HaleAbbreviationsNatick-English VocabularyEnglish-Natick VocabularyAdditions and Corrections

About the Author

James Hammond Trumbull (1821–97) was a philologist and Connecticut historian. He is the author of several books, including The Composition of Indian Geographical Names and The Best Methods of Studying the Indian Languages. Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was a Unitarian preacher, as well as an abolitionist and short-story writer. His works, including “The Man without a Country,” appeared in Atlantic Monthly. Robert D. Madison is a former professor of English at the United States Naval Academy. Karen Lentz Madison teaches at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). Together they have edited James Fenimore Cooper’s Ned Myers: Or, A Life Before the Mast and are working on a critical edition of Cooper’s The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish.