Choctaw materials, James M. Crawford Papers

Choctaw includes: Chahta
English | Choctaw
1971-1973
Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Farmer, Ruth | Martin, Phillip, 1926-2010 | McCall, Mary | Holden, Marjory
Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Anthropology | Ethnography | Treaties
Text
Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories
2 folders, 2 boxes
Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Choctaw language. Items include card-sized paper slips, Choctaw-English and English-Choctaw, with pencilled notes in Series V. and two folders of Choctaw notebooks in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. Folder 1 contains a field notebook of Choctaw vocabulary and other linguistic material dated to winter 1971-1972. Ruth Farmer is noted as the Choctaw consultant and students Mary McCall, Marjory Holden, and Mr. Chappel are also noted as using the notebook and eliciting information (mostly vocabulary) from the consultant. Folder 2 contains a field notebook dated to 1973, and notes Phillip Martin, Tribal Chairman of Choctaws, as consultant. This notebook deals more with grammar and sentence structure and includes work on a story or history (in both Choctaw and English) revolving around Choctaw laws or treaties, including the observation that the Choctaws (perhaps Martin?) want the laws transcribed from English to Choctaw.
James M. Crawford Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.66