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[Indigenous History – Christian Missionaries – Cherokee Language] Chamberlin, Amory NelsonBiblio.com

The Shorter Catechism With Proof Texts. Compiled And Translated By Rev. A. N. Chamberlin. Proof Sheets

1892List3029Indian Territory: N.p. 1892. Folio of eleven unbound sheets forty-four pages measuring approximately 6 x 8 inches. Marginal damage and fading to text; excellent. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821â€“1894 was born on Brainerd Mission in what is now Chattanooga Tennessee the son and grandson of missionaries. Fluent in both English and Cherokee Chamberlin worked as an interpreter and served under General Stand Watie in the Confederate States Army.1 After the war Chamberlin established the Pheasant Hill Mission near Vinita Indian Territory with Reverend Hamilton Balentine preaching in Cherokee and English.2 Offered here is a Cherokee-language version of the Shorter Catechism translated by Chamberlin. The Cherokee written language is a syllabaryâ€”a writing system in which symbols represent whole syllablesâ€”developed in the early 19th century by Sequoyah a Cherokee leader and inventor. It was one of the first writing systems for an Indigenous American language and significantly increased Cherokee literacy within a short time of its adoption in the 1820s.3 We find fifteen copies of Chamberlinâ€™s catechism in OCLC. Of interest to historians of the Cherokee nation its language and its Christian missionaries. 1 Lon H. Eakes â€œRev. Amory Nelson Chamberlin 1821â€“1894â€ Chronicles of Oklahoma 12 no. 1 1934: 97â€“102. 2 O.B. Campbell Vinita I.T.: The Story of a Frontier Town of the Cherokee Nation 1871â€“1907 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. 1909. 3 Willard Walker and James Sarbaugh â€œThe Early History of the Cherokee Syllabaryâ€ Ethnohistory 40 no. 1 Winter 1993: 70â€“94. N.p. unknown

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