The Aquidneck Indian Council's "Introduction to the Narragansett Language" is a companion volume to "Indian Grammar Dictionary for N- Dialect: A Study of A Key into the Language of America by Roger Williams 1643". Together these volumes comprise a modern summary of the extinct Narragansett language. Our goals are threefold: (1) to provide a modern re-translation of the Narragansett language recorded by Roger Williams in 1643 in "A Key into the Language of America" (2) to provide a text in dialogues structure which the reader, with concentrated effort, can acquire a fair amount of knowledge, at the elementary level, of an extinct American Indian language, (3) to provide teachers with a useful text to teach this language.
