Indian BIBLES. A translation of the New Testament into the North American Indian language by Elliot was published in quarto at Cambridge, New England, in 1661, and one of the whole Bible in 1685. Since that period portions of Scripture, particularly of the New Testament, have been translated into the dialects of several of the Indian tribes; but as the latter are fast disappearing before the advancing tide of colonization, these labours have recently been in a great measure discontinued.