Special Collections
The University Libraries hold several special collections in the Marian Library, University Archives and the U.S. Catholic Special Collection, including some rare and unique items related to Native American history. These works reflect the cultural attitudes of their authors, shaped by time and place. We recognize that some of these materials include depictions or descriptions of Native Americans that may be considered offensive or harmful today, but we include them as resources for research and reflection.
Marian Library
Grammar and dictionary of the Yakama language / by Rev. Mie. Cles. Pandosy ; translated by George Gibbs and J.G. Shea.
Call Number: ML-RB Grammar 1862Publication Date: 1862
US Catholic Collection
- Catechism, Prayers and Instructions in the Sioux Indian Language / translated under the direction of Rev. Fr. Jerome Hunt, O.S.B.Call Number: BT1039.D3 C3 1920zPublication Date: 1920?
University Archives
- Leaf from a 1663 Eliot Indian Bible: Jeremiah XL, XLII-XLIIICall Number: BS345.A2 E4 1663Publication Date: 1663This is the first Bible printed in what is now the United States and is in a Native American language. John Eliot, a Cambridge scholar, Christian missionary, translator and linguist, learned the Wôpanâak dialect of the tribes of colonial New England with the assistance of several Native speakers. His New Testament translation was printed in 1661. Two years later, he completed the Old Testament in Wôpanâak. His translations documented a language that didn’t exist in written form before his translation.
- The Indian Races of North and South America / Charles De Wolf BrownellCall Number: E 58 .B8912Publication Date: 1857
- Account of the Present State of the Indian Tribes Inhabiting Ohio. In a Letter from John Johnston, United States Agent of Indian Affairs at Piqua to Caleb AtwaterCall Number: E 172 .A54 v.1Publication Date: 1820
