Assiniboine materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language: Assiniboine | English
Date: 1936, 1949
Contributor: Ahenakew, Edward | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Montana--History | Warfare
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Grammars | Translations
Extent: 64 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items that can be found in the "Assiniboine" section of the finding aid. Deloria's "Notes on the Assiniboine (Belknap or Watopahnatu dialect)" (item X8d.1) contains a sketch of Assiniboine grammar, compared with that of Dakota, and includes an Assiniboine text, with literal and free translation and notes, and a letter from author to Franz Boas, Jan. 6, 1936, covering the document. The other item is Ahenakew's "The creation of a new tribe" (71), an explanation of creation of Assiniboine tribe, separated from Sioux, given Ahenakew in his youth by his mission superintendent, Rev. John Hines, a battle over a girl accounted for end of connection of Red Eagle with other Sioux, and a letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, May 21, 1949, commenting on Rev. Hines' relation to the author.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c