Excerpt from The Courtship: A Dramatization of Longfellow's Poem "the Courtship of Miles Standish"Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the eminent American Indian scholar, has furnished a Sioux translation of the speeches in Act II, Scene 2. Sioux was not the language of the New England Indians, but as the tongue of the latter, that of the Eliot Bible, is not now available, this Sioux translation will have to suffice. The vowels should all be given the French or continental sound. Instead of the spoken word, it may be found effective to have the Indians employ the sign or gesture language, which can be acquired from Ernest Thompson Seton's book on the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.