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A Journey Into Mohawk and Oneida Country 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz Van Den Bogaert Revised Edition (Iroquois and Their Neighbors)

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In 1634, the Dutch West India Company used to be anxious to know why the fur trade from New Netherland had been declining, so the company sent three employees far into Iroquois country to investigate. Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert led the expedition from Fort Orange (present-day Albany, NY). His is the earliest known description of the interior of what’s as of late New York State and its seventeenth-century native inhabitants.

Van den Bogaert used to be a keen observer, and his journal isn’t just a day-to-day log of where the expedition party traveled; it is usually a detailed account of the Mohawks and the Oneidas: the settlements, modes of subsistence, and healing rituals. Van den Bogaert’s unusual wordlist is the earliest known recorded vocabulary of the Mohawk language.

Gehring’s translation and Starna’s annotations provide indispensable material for anthropologists, ethnohistorians, linguists, and someone with a special interest in Native American studies. Michelson’s current additions to the wordlist of Mohawk equivalents with English glosses (wherever imaginable) and his expert analysis of the language within the Native American passages offer a valuable new dimension to this edition of the journal.

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