Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Mohawk materials in the Lounsbury Papers are primarily found in the "Mohawk" section of Series II: Research Subject. This section contains materials Lounsbury recorded directly with Mohawk speakers from Kahnawake such as Minnie Diabo and Louise Diabo, who Lounsbury appears to have first met via the Mohawk community in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The section also contains notes by Gordon Day, Marius Barbeau, J.N.B. Hewitt, and others. There are also notes for a Mohawk dictionary collected by Gunther Michelson between 1961-1994. The recordings in Series VII include a series entitled "The Mohawks Learn Mohawk," of Lounsbury talking with students in a classroom setting. There are also recordings of Lounsbury teaching at Yale with the Mohawk speaker Minnie Diabo

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Mohawk materials, Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879

Culture:

Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:French | English | Wyandot | Algonquin | Mohawk

Date:1770; 1818

Contributor:Mathevet, Jean Claude, 1717-1781

Type:Text

Extent:2 reels

Description: Thirty-nine volumes of relgious materials and translations prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. Materials include Mathevet's translation into Mohawk of the Old Testament (3 volumes); New Testament (8 volumes); sermons (10 volumes); formal religious materials (16 volumes); an anonymous Algonquin manuscript; and an anonymous volume of catechism, prayers, and hymns in Huron. Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.

Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)

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Mohawk materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Language:English | French | Mohawk

Date:1962, 1969-1971, 1976-1977, 1980-1986, 1994, 1997-1998, 2008-2009

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:913 pages

Description: The Mohawk materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 10 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bonvillain, Druke, Frisch, Guldenzopf, Hopkins, McNaughton, Postal, Reid, and Waterman.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Mohawk materials, Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics

Culture:

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:French | Mohawk

Date:Undated

Contributor:Unknown

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries

Extent:1,216 pages

Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This particular item is a French-Mohawk dictionary. Original at the Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.

Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)

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Mohawk materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:Mohawk | English

Date:1977

Contributor:Mithun, Marianne

Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching

Type:Text

Genre:Books | Dictionaries

Extent:1 volume

Description: William Bright possessed a copy of Marianne Mithun's edited volume “Iontenwennaweienstahkhwa'/Mohawk Spelling Dictionary” (Series 2).

Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)

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Mohawk Narratives

Culture:

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Language:Mohawk

Date:1983

Contributor:Curotte, Grace | Hopkins, Alice W.

Subject:Folklore | Food

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Stories

Extent:1 audiocassette (11 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Three Mohawk stories told by Grace Curotte, recorded by Alice W. Hopkins at Caughnawaga Reserve, Quebec from July to December 1983. The stories are "Apple Picking," "Rahón:tsi," and "Making Cornbread." (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Mohawk Narratives (Mss.Rec.124)

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North America materials, Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform]

Culture:

Shawnee

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Nanticoke

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cherokee

Language:English | Muscogee | Delaware | Mohawk | Onondaga

Date:1735-1900

Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)

Type:Text

Extent:40 reels

Description: This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Originals in the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Collection:Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform] (Mss.Film.1279)

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Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora; . . . Mohawk suffixes

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Date:1951

Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958 | Thomas, David | Ninham, Cassie

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies

Extent:1 volume

Description: The volume consists of copies of 3 sets of fieldnotes in the following order. Onondaga verbs, possessive pronouns, nouns, Cartier's vocabulary, and compound pronouns, obtained August 5, 1951, at Ohsweken, Ontario, from Onondaga speaker David Thomas (49p.); Tuscarora word list, similar to above, but with equivalents for many items in Oneida, Mohawk, and Cayuga, obtained from multi-lingual speaker Cassie Ninham, August 10-21, 1951 (79p.); List of Mohawk suffixes obtained from Charles Cooke, August 21, 1951 (4p., one unnumbered).

Collection:Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora; . . . Mohawk suffixes (Mss.497.2.B235)

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Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Date:1914

Contributor:Beauchamp, William Martin, 1830-1925

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Essays

Extent:1 reel

Description: Collected by William Martin Beauchamp, an Episcopal clergyman, in 1909, these names were taken from treaties, delegations, and other documents and are often accompanied by English translations as well as biographical information. Includes "Sketches of Onondagas of Note," "Names given to whites," and "Names of Iroquois, exclusive of Onondagas." Originals at the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse, NY.

Collection:Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914 (Mss.Film.643)