BOOKS AND TRANSLATIONS IN THE MONTAGNAIS.
[This people occupy the country on the head-waters of the River
Saguenay, on the north shore of the St. Lawrence, below Quebec,
reaching to the Labrador coast. They are a part of the great Algonquin
family so celebrated in the history of Canada.]
64.—Aiamieu Kukuetshimitun Missinaigan. Prayer and Question (Catechism)
Book. Quebec: 53 pages, 12mo. A. D. 1848.
This work is published with the approbation of the Bishop of Quebec,
in the dialect of the Montagnais. “Ella est un des debris,” observes
the Bishop, in a note transmitting it, “ainsi que cette des Sauteux, de
la grande nation du Algonquins, si celebre dans l’histoire du Canada.”
The dialect differs but little from the forms of words now used by
the nations of this stock in the north-western quarters of the United
States. The use of the letter l, for the sound of n, as heard with our
tribes, marks the chief peculiarity in sound.