Nottoway materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Powhatan
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language: English | French
Date: 1820-1821
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection: American Philosophical Society Archives APS.Archives