Eliot Preaches to the Massachusetts Algonquians

1646

The Puritan minister John Eliot delivered his first sermon in the Massachusett language to Native Americans at Nonantum. He would spend decades translating the Bible into Wampanoag, creating praying towns, and earning, or at least claiming, the title Apostle to the Indians. His Wampanoag Bible, printed in 1663, was the first complete Bible published anywhere in the Americas.