 Judging from the present, this people will probably acquire the English, before we do the Nez Perces language, though we flatter ourselves that we are making good progress.  Oregon Historical Quarterly - Page 39by Oregon Historical Society - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Congregational churches - 1837 - 552 pages
...children at school, who are now obliged to leave frequently to go with their parents in search of food. Judging from the present, this people will probably acquire the English, before we do the Nez Perces language, though we flatter ourselves that we are making good progress. If so, by the time... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Agricultural colleges - 1935 - 814 pages
...language to writing. He wrote from the Nez Perces Mission House (Lapwai, Clearwater), February 16, 1837: Judging from the present, this people will probably acquire the English before we do the Nez Perces' language, though we flatter ourselves that we are making good progress. • * * But what... | |
 | Narcissa Prentiss Whitman - History - 1997 - 288 pages
...attend the school. . . They have learned a few verses & several tunes, which they sing very sweetly. . . Judging from the present, this people will probably...flatter ourselves, that we are making good progress. From this it appears that the Spaldings began teaching English to the natives. Experience proved that... | |
 | Larry Cebula - History - 2003 - 218 pages
...Indians seemed as eager to learn English as they were to learn the other secrets of the missionaries. "Judging from the present, this people will probably...the English, before we do the Nez-Perces language," Henry Spalding admitted. The Spaldings and Whitmans especially turned their energies to teaching English.101... | |
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