John Kirk Townsend Indian vocabularies collection
Culture:
Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Nisga'a includes: Nass, Nisgha, Nishga, Nishka, Niska, Nisqa'a
Nuxalk includes: Bella Coola, Bellacoola
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Klallam includes: Clallam, S'Klallam, nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm
Klickitat includes: Klikitat
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Cayuse includes: Liksiyu, Natítayt
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language: Cayuse | Klallam | Cree, Plains | Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | Haida | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Kalapuya | Kutenai | Nez Perce | Nisga'a | Nuxalk | Ojibwa, Western | Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | Secwepemc | Squamish | Tlingit | Walla Walla
Date: 1834-1836
Contributor: Black, Samuel | Dorion, Babtiste | Gardiner, Meredith | McKenzie, Benjamin | Ogden, Peter | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851
Subject: Linguistics | Alaska--History | Washington (State)--History | Idaho--History | Oregon--History | British Columbia--History | Ontario--History | Saskatchewan--History
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks
Extent: 2 volumes
Description: This collection contains two manuscript volumes collected by the naturalist John Kirk Townsend, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. The first volume contains a collection of multiple comparative vocabulary lists of languages of modern-day Washington, Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. Languages included are: "Okanagan" (N̓səl̓xcin), "Attnaha" or "Shoushwap" (Secwepemctsin), "Walla Walla (Sahaptin), "Squalyamish" (Squamish / Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ?), "Nooselalum" (Klallam / nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm), "Haeeltzuk" (Heiltsuk), "Billichoola" (Nuxalk), "Nass" (Nisga'a), "Haidah" (Haida), "Tongaase" (Tlingit, possibly inland variety), Nez Perce, Chinook [Jargon], "Carrier or Takelhé" (Dakelh), "Kayouse" (Cayuse), and "Kootenai" (Ktunaxa). The second volume is a collection of vocabulary lists of 19 Indigenous languages, primarily of the Pacific Northwest, re-copied from earlier notes in an orderly fashion with an index and additional introductory information on the area where each language is spoken and the source of the vocabulary. 15 of the vocabularies are re-copied out from the first volume in this collection. This volume includes the languages listed for that volume, plus Cree (possibly Plains Cree), "Kalapooyah" (Kalapuya), Klikatat (Sahaptin or Yakama), and "Seauteux" (Western Ojibwa/Ojibwe).
Collection: John Kirk Townsend Indian vocabularies collection Mss.497.3.T66