The Algonquian series Volume 1-5

by William Wallace Tooker

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 ...was Trumbull, Best Method, etc., p. 9, "It is nearly impossible to find an Indian discovered, however, in two of the most prominent dialects of the Algonquian family, and both are happily identical in their synthesis, and ample for analytical study. Besides, it is paralleled in one of the most northern dialects with the same primary meaning and grammatical construction--a circumstance of rather unusual occurrence in connection with Indian place-names. This term for " booty or spoil," in the Massachusetts of Eliot is Seque name or verb which admits of exact translation by an English name or verb." We know the origin of the English "booty" and its meaning of to-day, which is entirely different from its primary meaning. tahamcaongash. The main stem Sequ-, and its particle-etah, are employed by Eliot (with varying inflections and grammatical terminations), such as Sohquetah-(Ez. xxxvi. 35), Sequehtah-(Is. x. 6), Sequettah, etc. (Num. xxxi. 9, 11, 12, 53), Sequttah(2 Chron. xxviii. 15). Its correspondence in the Delaware is Schiquitehasid, "booty ";f also Schiquitehasik, " chips," literally " that which ye have cut to pieces." Cree (Howse, p. 87) Siekwa-tahiim, "he beats it into smaller pieces, e. g., loaf-sugar." Here occurs a very Sequ-etah-am-a-ongash, "in small pieces-beats-he-his-tbings." (Num. 31, 32.) f Modern Delaware, Schiquinitehasik, "spoil obtained in war." strange concatenation of the human mind, occurring in one dialect as "booty "; in another both " booty" and " chips "; and in another, finally, as the acme of sweetness, "loafsugar "; but all three primarily denoting the same, viz., " to beat into small piece...

34 pages, Paperback

Published May 20, 2012

About the author

William Wallace Tooker (1848-1917) was recognized as one of his era's leading specialists in Coastal Algonquian culture, history and place names. His interest in Native Americans grew from a childhood fascination. Discovering Indian relics near his home in eastern Long Island, he began to hunt for stone tools and other evidences of Indian life in nearby farm fields and beaches. He was a determined collector; he collected more than 15,000 artifacts. Corresponding with specialists and studying in local libraries in his spare time, he gained a reputation as one of the foremost students of eastern Long Island Indian life. Tooker began to present his papers in front of scholarly organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also published his work in such major scholarly journals as the American Anthropologist and The Archaeologist. As a prolific writer, he published 12 books, some 50 pamphlets and over 100 articles between 1888 and 1911. In 1896 he published Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of His Career from the Early Records: a biography of Cockenoe, a Montauk Indian who rendered great service to settlers and the authorities of New England and New York in the latter half of the 17th century.