CULTURAL READINGS: Colonization & Print in the Americas

Rosenbach Museum & Library	John Eliot, The Indian Grammar Begun... Cambridge, Mass.: Marmaduke Johnson, 1666. Sample page
The title page suggests Puritan desires to bring native cultures themselves under "Rules." But Eliot's Grammar, an incomplete work, suggests the difficulty of this process, at least in linguistic terms.

Eliot's Indian Bible

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