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The Indian Primer
John Eliot1669
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Unique surviving copy of the first edition of the first book produced in the Algonquin language, written to enable the Native Americans to learn to read in their own language, so that they could read the translation of the Bible, which John Eliot had also made for them.
University of Edinburgh, Rare Books Collections: Df.7.98
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- Title: The Indian Primer
- Creator: John Eliot
- Date Created: 1669
- Location Created: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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