A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language

Title: A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language
Creator: Cyrus Byington See all items with this value; John R. Swanton See all items with this value; Henry S. Halbert See all items with this value
Date: 1834; 1868; 1915
Bibliographic Citation: Byington, Cyrus. 1915 [1834] [1868]. A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language. Ed. John R. Swanton and Henry S. Halbert. Bureau of American Ethnography, Bulletin 46. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.
annotates: Over 600 pages, editor Swanton asserts it represents primarily Longtown dialect with Sixtown dialect “words [to] be found interspersed throughout…”
Members of the Chahta Nation were consulted and contributed directly to this work. The first draft was completed in 1834
Editors Swanton and Halbert acknowledged at the time that there were errors and slippages of meaning in the dictionary; the original manuscript accrued over years of Byington’s attempts at Biblical translations and his evolving understanding of Choctaw language and culture.
Subject: Chahta (Choctaw) See all items with this value; Language See all items with this value; Mississippi See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: Postcontact See all items with this value; 19th Century See all items with this value