http://www.metafilter.com/tags/native_americans Posts tagged with 'native_americans' at MetaFilter. Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:09:55 -0800 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:09:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/47687/19th%2DCentury <a href="http://www.merrycoz.org/BARTLETT.HTM">A Dictionary of Amercanisms</a> by John Russell Bartlett, published 1848. A "vocabulary of the colloquial language of the United States" during the mid-19th century. As noted by jmorrison at <a href="http://thenonist.com/index.php">the nonist</a> (the source for this link), it is interesting to see much of what we find so common today " called out as 'americanisms' not yet included in the dictionary." The <a href="http://www.merrycoz.org/index.html">site</a> has other goodies too, such as <a href="http://www.merrycoz.org/MAGS3.HTM#slave">The Slave's Friend</a>, a Christian anti-slavery tract, and <a href="http://www.merrycoz.org/HUNTER.HTM">Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America</a>, by John Dunn Hunter, published in 1823 and 1824 and recounting his life after being captured as a young boy and raised by Native American tribes. It provides an intimate, inside look at their societies, customs and battles. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.47687 Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:09:55 -0800 1800s americanisms language native_americans slavery caddis