Helper Neck Collection. "Eskimo Bible". [microform]. ca. 1900.

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Helper Neck Collection. "Eskimo Bible". [microform]. ca. 1900.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309446474

Notebook with translations, into Yup'ik, of scripture passages by Yup'ik Moravian Helper (Uyaquq) Neck. Translations are handwritten in Neck's own orthography and represent the culmination of the evolution of his orthography from pictographs to a sophisticated and complex writing system.

295 pp.

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7293639

University of Alaska Fairbanks, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library

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Neck, Uyaquq Helper, 1860?-1924.

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The Moravians came to the United States in 1735 primarily to preach the gospel to the Indians. Although the Moravians had contacts with many Indian tribes, they did most of their work among the Delawares. They followed this tribe westward from Pennsylvania to Ohio, to Canada, to Indiana,and finally to Kansas. They also worked among the Mahicans in New York and Connecticut, and among the Cherokees in Georgia and Oklahoma. The work lasted until 1900, for a total of over 150 years. From...