Acts of the Apostles, in Cherokee

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Lot 161 | Acts of the Apostles, in Cherokee
Acts of the Apostles, in CherokeeSamuel Worcester and Elias Boudinot, 1833BIBLE, in Cherokee. Acts of the Apostles. Translated by S.A. Worcester and E. Boudinot. New Echota, GA: John F. Wheeler and John Candy, 1833. [Bound with:] –. Select Passages from the Holy Scriptures. [New Echota, GA, c. 1833-1836.] First editions of two important touchstones in the history of Indian-language printing, from the first press owned and operated by a Native American tribe. The editors, American missionary Samuel Worcester and Elias Boudinot, also known at Buck Watie and a member of a prominent Cherokee family, became friends in New Echota, GA around a shared desire to create a Cherokee print culture based on Sequoyah's recently developed Cherokee syllabary. They had types made in Boston, and used them to print a Cherokee-English newspaper called the Cherokee Phoenix, which Boudinot edited, as well as other translated works. The press was operated by typographer-adventurer John Wheeler with the help of Native assistant John Candy. While Worcester viewed the syllabary as a powerful missionary tool, Boudinot conceived of it as a voice for the Cherokee people—and a presentation to the wider world of their culture. Boudinot’s complicated relationship to his ancestry took a tragic turn; he resigned from the paper in 1832 over his support for Jackson's Indian Removal Act, changing his attention to religious works and translations into Cherokee aimed at promoting cultural assimilation. In 1835, he signed the Treaty of New Echota, which ceded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi, without the support of their principal chief, John Ross. Boudinot, along with two other signers of the treaty, was assassinated in 1839 in Oklahoma Indian Territory. Both of these works are rare, having been last recorded at auction in the Siebert sale. The second work was issued without a title page; Sabin erroneously describes it as printed in Park Hill in the 1840s, but evidence in the Siebert copy suggests it must have been printed before the Cherokee Removal. I:Pilling 4229; Field, Indian Bibliography, 1696. II:Pilling, Iroquoian 152; Gilcrease & Hargrett, p. 30 and p. 33; Sabin 12475. 24mo (120 x 68mm). Cherokee types. First work lacking pp. 61-68 and with pp. 45-48 and 57-60 duplicated; second work complete. Modern orange buckram with morocco title label (a little worn). Custom chemise and slipcase.
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