On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:16:22 -0400, tgregevans wrote
> Can someone mail me a document with the list of known "Powhatan"
> words or meanings, or provide me a link to somewhere on line where I
> can find it?

You can find both Capt John Smith's and William Strachey's word list on the
Mariner's Museum website:

http://www.mariner.org/chesapeakebay/native/dictionaries/

Strachey's is the most comprehensive, although Smith has some good phrases and
sentences.

Somewhere I have an MS Excel file where I made comparisons between Virginia
Algonquin and New England Algonquin (Wampanoag/Narragansset), and Lenape
(Delaware). There were actually more similarities between Va. and NE Algonquin
than either with Lenape. The most common words to be very similar were words
related to food.

I also have an MS Word file with both Strachey's and Smith's lists, side by
side for comparison. If anyone is interested in either file, contact me off-list.

Regards,

Tom Apple

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