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Mandan Scripture Selections 1905

Mandan Language

Mandan is a native American Indian language related to Sioux. The Mandan tribe live in North Dakota.

Mandan Scripture Selections

These translations into the Mandan Language are the last effort of a young Mandan Indian, Leroy Holding Eagle a former pupil of the Fort Berthold Mission Home School, assisted by Robert Dwight Hall of the Fort Berthold Mission in North Dakota.

The Indian youth dying soon after the translations were completed, hoped that his people would be led to faith in Christ thru this work.

The printing has been done by the Santee Normal Training School, under the kind supervision of Rev. A. L. Riggs, D. D., and Mr. C. R. Lawson.

There were 10 hymns translated from English into Mandan by L.H, Eagle and R.D. Hall in January 1904. The Scripture Selections consist of the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20 and the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6. It was published as: Hymns and Scripture Selections in the Mandan Language, for the Fort Berthold Mission in Elbowoods in North Dakota in 1905.

The Mandan Alphabet.

The alphabet used in printing the Mandan language is the same as used in the Dakota translation. The vowel sounds, a e i o u, are like the German sounds, and are long and short. The consonants are as in the English, except ḣ, which is a gutteral sound, and ś equals sh in English. ’ is an aspirate, or breathing, at the end of a syllable. 

Digital Edition

The Hymns and Scripture Selections in the Mandan Language were digitised with the help of MissionAssist in 2022.


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