A dictionary of the Choctaw language, by Cyrus Byington. Ed. by John R. Swanton and Henry S. Halbert. 1915 [Leather Bound]

by Cyrus Byington

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642 pages, Leather Bound

First published January 1, 1915

About the author

Cyrus Byington (March 11, 1793 – December 31, 1868) was a White Christian missionary from Massachusetts who began working with the Choctaw in Mississippi in 1821. Although he had been trained as a lawyer, he abandoned law as a career and became a minister affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. During this period he learned the Choctaw language, which was then entirely unwritten. He also began to develop a Choctaw orthography.

After the U.S. government began enforcing its Indian Removal policy to relocate Native Americans from their lands in the Southeastern states to Indian Territory, later called Oklahoma, during the 19th century. In 1835, Byington and his family returned to the new Choctaw homeland and founded a mission near Eagletown. He sought to construct a lexicon and develop other linguistic tools for the Choctaw language to translate Christian prayers, hymns, and bible passages. Byington's work is considered one of the most complete lexicons for a Native American language. He worked nearly 50 years translating Choctaw as a written language.

Reviews

[Mimi Bear · Rating 5 out of 5]

an important record of the language. Wish it was not in PDF format

[Randell Baze · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Choctaw to English dictionary