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The American Bible: Porfolio I

Original Leaves from the Bible in Indigenous Languages

"Original leaves from rare and historic Bibles printed in the colonies and the United States of American during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries..."

Portfolio I:
-Preface by Michael Zinman
-Introduction by Mark Noll
1. The Eliot Indian Bible, first Bible printed in America. 1663
2. The second edition of the Eliot Indian Bible, translated into Massachusett.1685
3. The New Testament, translated into Chippewa. 1833
4. The Gospels of Matthew and John, translated into Mohawk. 1836
5. The Bible, translated into Hawaiian. 1838
6. Genesis, translated into Cherokee. 1856
7. The New Testament, translated into Dakota. 1865
8. The Pentateuch, translated into Choctaw. 1867

The Bibles from which these leaves come represent a controversial history of the early American colonies and the United States. Believing their religion to be the salvation of the Native American people, many Christian colonizers of North America and surrounding areas sought to indoctrinate indigenous people with their customs. Despite any well-meaning, this era of Native American/indigenous history is marked with terrible violence and death as the invading white man began to restrict indigenous culture, cut off natural resources, steal their land, and kill their families through sickness and physical force. While indigenous culture still persists despite this history, sometimes with an interesting synthesis of Christianity, the scars of the injustices faced by First Nations are still seen today.

1663-1867 AD

1993 AD

Various creators

Michael Zinman

Various Publishers

Arion Press, San Francisco under the supervision of Andrew Hoyem

Haydn Foundation for the Cultural Arts

North America

17th Century

19th Century

Print

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Massachusett

Chippewa

Mohawk

Hawaiian

Cherokee

Dakota

Choctaw

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Leaves from Bibles

The American Bible: Original Leaves from Rare and Historical Bibles Printed in the Colonies and the United States of America during the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Portfolio I: Original Leaves from the Bible in Indigenous Languages. Portfolio 1. 4 Portfolios. San Francisco: Andrew Hoyem & Michael Zinman, 1993.