{"product_id":"the-delaware-primers-of-ira-d-blanchard-9780990334460","title":"The Delaware Primers of Ira D. Blanchard","description":"\u003cp\u003e This book presents an edition of the three school primers in the Southern Unami dialect of the Delaware language (Lenape; ISO code \u003cstrong\u003eunm\u003c\/strong\u003e) that were produced by the Baptist missionary Ira D. Blanchard in the years 1834 and 1842. Their short titles are: Linapi'e Lrkvekun (Blanchard 1834a), Linapie Lrkvekun (Blanchard 1834b) and The Delaware First Book (Blanchard [and Journeycake] 1842). Blanchard was aided by two bilingual young men, James Conner and Charles Journeycake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Delawares were at the time in a part of Indian Territory that is now eastern Kansas. The books were printed on a press at the nearby Shawnee mission. They were written entirely in Delaware and, as primers, were intended to teach reading to monolingual Delaware-speaking children. The language is written in a special alphabet devised by the printer Jotham Meeker that is long out of use, and the contents of the primers have been effectively inaccessible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The lessons include warnings against drunkenness, Bible stories, the world around us, contemporary life, and the planned Indian state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Also available from the editors are an edition of Blanchard and Conner's Delaware translation of a Harmony of the Gospels (1837-1839; Goddard 2021a), a Glossary to Blanchard's publications (Beckwith and Goddard 2021), and a Grammar of Southern Unami Delaware based on Blanchard's books and twentieth-century fieldwork with the last speakers (Goddard 2021b).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Southern Unami is the heritage language of the Delaware Tribe of Indians (Bartlesville, Okla.) and the Delaware Nation of Western Oklahoma (Anadarko).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mundart Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50382998667538,"sku":"9780990334460","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_dc3929f1-c749-4551-a31c-5dea8c05db35.jpg?v=1728775407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-delaware-primers-of-ira-d-blanchard-9780990334460","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}