This book gives insight into the phonetics of the Native Americans local to southeastern New England. The researchers have done their best to provide a glimpse into a language spoken by peoples who were gone from most areas by 1750. For a thorough description of the events of the period, I recommend Alvin Weeks' "Massasoit".
A Vocabulary of Mohegan-pequot (American Language Reprints) Details
Paperback: 81 pages ( Download PDF:
)ISBN-10: 1889758647
ISBN-13: 978-1889758640
Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 5.2 x 8 inches
Series: American Language Reprints
Publisher: Evolution Pub & Manufacturing (May 15, 2005)
Language: English
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A Vocabulary of Mohegan-pequot (American Language Reprints) Review
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This interesting dictionary was compiled almost entirely from the diaries of the last speaker of Mohegan Pequot, a Mohegan woman named Fidelia Fielding, who passed away in 1908. It's quite short -- only 42 pages of vocabulary, with approximately ten words per page. The main dictionary is followed by a single page of vocabulary from the "Brothertown Mohegans" of Wisconsin, who moved to Wisconsin in the 1800s.
For anyone who doesn't know this, let me just explicitly note right here that the Mohegans are completely different from the Mohicans. To help you keep things straight, the word "Mohegan" is basically ALWAYS spelled the same way. Any time you see a spelling like Mohican, Mochican, Mahican, or...Muhhekaneew, those words refer to a totally, absolutely, completely separate tribe, which formerly lived in western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and also in New York. That tribe is also sometimes called the Stockbridge Indians. Confusingly enough, like the Brothertown Mohegans, the Mohicans/Mahicans/Mochicans/Muhhekaneew/Stockbridge indians now live in Wisconsin, but they are still distinct from Wisconsin's Brothertown Mohegans. Are you baffled? Bemused? Befogged and bewildered? Well, welcome to the club.
I felt that the above note would be useful here, to straighten things out a little, or at least to acknowledge that a certain amount of confusion on this topic is far from being uncommon, or even inappropriate.
Native American Heritage
I have to say that i was very pleased with this book. Growing up in Connecticut I was only marginaly aware of my heritage through my grandmother. I found that this book was not only a good dictionary of the known words but also a book of history. I feel that this book helped bring me closer to the Mohegan tribe and i was very pleased with my purchase. The only thing i could have hoped for more of was the language itself. But as was explained, much of the language was lost and they have peiced together the best that was possible. It seems that the authors put real time and effort into this book.
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