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Birchbark Certificate

Birchbark certificate with adoptive name for Alice Mary Longfellow in Anishinaabemowin.

Birchbark panel with inscription in Anishinaabemowin . “Me-omah de-bah je mind owh / Alice Mary Longfellow kagat ke-odah / emah Ojibwa-we win-ning che Ojibwa-wid me-nik / Ka-be-mah-de zid Kahya Ke me nind Ezhe-ne Hah-zood. / Odahnewasenoque / che ezhe we nind che ah-ne-ah-yah-ne Ke-be-mah de-zing / Ke-me-ne-good. Newh. Oge-ehe-dawn / Dahg-wahgahna Kabaoosa. / mah OjibuUh Keeg / Qe-che-men Ke-ziss”

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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG

Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938

NPS Museum Catalog Number : LONG 7563

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Museum Collection

06/04/2025

06/04/2025

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James P. Jones

James P. Jones

Organization: Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
Address: 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: LONG_archives@nps.gov

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