Plains Cree notebooks collection
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language: English | Cree, Plains
Date: 1925-1926
Contributor: Achenam, Harry | Achenam, Maggie | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
Subject: Linguistics | Saskatchewan--History
Type: Text
Genre: Stories | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent: 11 folders
Description: Plains Cree language field notebooks and loose notes from Sweetgrass Reserve and Starblanket Reserve (or Ahtahkakoop), Saskatchewan. The first 10 notebooks (approximately 160 pages each) appear to be in Bloomfield's hand primarily contain texts, with some word lists, in romanized Plains Cree orthography, almost entirely untranslated. A final notebook and loose notes contain 26 texts (numbered 83-108) written in Cree syllabic script by Harry Achenam, with one (#108) written or dictated by Maggie Achenam. The loose notes also contain at least 1 brief text (5 p.) in Cree syllabic script written by "Askiy-kā-pimuhtātahk (Pimutat)" of Starblanket Reserve. These texts were intended as part of a sequel to Bloomfield's Plains Cree TextsPlains Cree Texts (1934), but were never published.
Collection: Plains Cree notebooks collection Mss.497.3.B62c