Grammar of the Choctaw Language

Title

Creator

Cyrus Byington See all items with this value

Date

1869

Bibliographic Citation

Byington, Cyrus. 1869. Grammar of the Choctaw Language. Ed. Daniel Brinton. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11(81): 317-67.

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Brinton’s introduction evinces his personal and professional commitment to white supremacy but offers useful biographical information about Byington. The grammar shows the centrality of missionizing in Byington’s linguistic work, as the English phrasing and the examples have a Biblical leaning.

Archives with collections on or including Byington:
Gilcrease Museum, Manuscript Collection: “Cyrus Byington” https://collections.gilcrease.org/finding-aid/manuscript-collection-cyrus-byington
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, “MS 2148 Cyrus Byington Papers” https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-naa-ms2148
University of Arkansas archives, “Cyrus Byington Letters” MS B99 https://uark.as.atlas-sys.com/repositories/2/resources/1529
University of Oklahoma University Libraries, various collections: https://digital.libraries.ou.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Byington
UPenn Online Books, “Cyrus Byington” https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Byington%2C%20 Cyrus%2C%201793%2D1868
Yale Archives, “J.L. Hargett Collection of Choctaw Papers” https://archives.yale.edu/agents/people/72939. Includes some correspondence with Byington. Some, or all of it, seems to be digitized: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/17436504