Cyrus Byington
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title:
Cyrus Byington
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Cyrus Byington was a Christian missionary from Massachusetts who began working with the Choctaw in Mississippi in 1821. Although he had been trained as a lawyer, he abandoned law as a career and became a minister affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. During this period he learned the Choctaw language, which was then entirely unwritten. He also began to develop a Choctaw orthography. After the U.S. government began enforcing its Indian Removal policy to relocat
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American linguist
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2024-01-15T20:59:09Z
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