Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the ACLS collection consist of a large body of various materials primarily collected by Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, George Hunt, and Morris Swadesh. The majority of the content pertains to Hupacasath and Tseshaht people in the Alberni Valley area, with the exception of the Hunt materials, which were recorded in the Yuquot area, Mowachaht territory. All of these materials are found in the "Nootka" section of the finding aid, which contains a full, detailed listing. The Boas materials consist of a lexicon of 1500+ word slips dating from the 1890s (item W2a.3). Hunt's "Nootka Tales" (item W2a.5) consist of large body of traditional stories written in English and later typed up by Sapir with additional notes. Sapir's materials comprise the bulk of this section overall. See especially his extremely voluminous "Miscellaneous Nootka material" (item W2a.18), the final item in the "Nootka" section, for which a detailed table of contents is available upon request. This set of materials includes 24 field notebooks with extensive stories (some unpublished or untranslated) and ethnographic notes, as well of 80 folders of typed up notes from the notebooks, arranged into categories. It also includes some photographs, censuses of Nuu-chah-nulth "bands" (1920-1921), and 10 folders notes derived by Sapir (and Swadesh?) from "NW Coast Sources and Archives," pertaining to the region more broadly, including information on Coast Salish culture and history. Finally, Swadesh's materials in this section include some additional ethnographic and linguistic field work, as well as extensive bodies of linguistic analysis of materials recorded by Sapir and himself. Brief passages on Comox and Pentlatch in Sapir's notes in loose folders. Detailed guide available upon request.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Nuu-chah-nulth materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast

Language:Ditidaht | English | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1970, 1972, 1991-1998, 2000-2005; 2015

Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:733 pages, 1 USB flash drive

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bessell, Davidson, Harkin, Kim, Klokeid, Nakayama, Wojdak, and Woo.

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

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Ojibwe materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Language:Chippewa | English

Date:1938; 1951-1952

Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Pierce, Joe E. | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | St. Germaine, Ted

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Michigan--History | Wisconsin--History

Type:Still Image | Text | Cartographic

Genre:Essays | Maps | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:253 pages, 26 cards, 2 maps

Description: The Ojibwe materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Ojibwa" section of the finding aid. One is Swadesh's "Chippewa field notes" (item A1g.2), which includes a story and other language information given by Ted St. Germaine of Lac du Flambeau, who attended the Carlisle Indian School, obtained a law degree at Yale in 1913, played as a tackle in the NFL in 1922, became the first Native American admitted to the bar in Wisconsin, and later served as tribal judge for Lac du Flambeau. This section also includes Joe Pierce's "Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, Sauk-and-Fox materials" (item A1c.2), containing discussion of dialect and language relationships, translations of texts, tests, and degree of linguistic relationships. (The Ojibwe in Pierce's work is that spoken at Mount Pleasant.) In the "Northeast" section of the finding aid, two maps annotated by hand by Speck ("Frank Speck annotated maps", no item number) include linguistic and hunting territories, include that for Ojibwe groups.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Ojibwe materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi

Penobscot

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Date:circa 1925-1967, bulk circa 1940-1941

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Stories | Essays

Extent:32 folders

Description: Several items relating to the Ojibwe (Ojibwa, Chippewa) language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, they include relevant correspondence with John N. Seaman (regarding Chippewa fieldwork in Michigan and consultants Mr. Maidler [Medler?] and Charlie David) and a partial letter with Ojibwe text in the Unidentified folder; 6 boxes of Ojibwe notecards, 1 box of Seneca, Ojibwe and Penobscot notecards, and 2 folders of Ojibwe notes (mostly vocabulary and linguistic, but one slip notes addresses of consultants Nicholas Plain of Sarnia and Elijah Pinnance of Walpole Island--there is also, unexpectedly, a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages at the end of Ojibwa #4) in Series II. comparative vocabularies of Ojibwe and Potawatomi ("Pottowatomi") in Series V. Research Notes Subseries V-A: Language Notes; unbound Eastern Ojibwe texts ("The Walpole Island" and others) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; and 24 folders of Ojibwe notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. Contents of the Blackfoot and Ojibwe notebooks in this series were described in detail by Richard A. Rhodes in 1988. Blackfoot and Ojibwe notebooks are arranged in the order of Rhodes' list, a photocopy of which is filed in the first Blackfoot folder. In general the Ojibwe notebooks are full of vocabulary words and phrases on all kinds of topics, notes on various parts of speech, notes on dialects, texts both with and without English translations, etc. Several consultants are named, of which Angeline Williams is the most prominent [see Odawa entry for more on Angeline Williams]. At least some of these materials appear to be associated with the Linguistic Institute and might be the work of students. Materials in Subcollection II include correspondence with Leonard Bloomfield (letters written in Ojibwe, with some interlinear English translation) and John N. Seaman (regarding field work with Chippewa speakers in Oscoda, Michigan, including Dan Naganigan and his wife and Mrs. Silas) in Series I. Correspondence. Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian contains 19 folders of Ojibwe materials collected from Leonard Bloomfield, Angeline Williams, Andrew Medler, Dan Nakanikan and Mrs. John B. Silas, including dozens of texts and stories and Bloomfield's Vocabularies and notes on topics such as prefixes and suffixes and sentence structure [see finding aid for titles of texts and stories]. There are also Ojibwe examples in at least 6 folders ("Č and K," "L and M," "N and P," " Š and T," "Θ and ?" and "Specimens of Central Algonquian") of the many Comparative Algonquian notebooks in the same subseries (i.e., Macro-Algonquian). Finally, there is "Correspondence in Ojibwa: Charles F. Voegelin and Leonard Bloomfield" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works; and "Ojibwe grammar" by Leonard Bloomfield and "The Chippewa Noun System" by John N. Seaman in Series IV. Works by Others.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

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Ojibwe materials, Paul Radin papers

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Odawa includes: Ottawa

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Chippewa

Date:Undated

Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Pontiac, Jim

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Interviews | Stories

Extent:3 items

Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Ojibwe culture and history. Includes a discussion of the origin and spread of the medicine dance; notes from informants and excerpted from published sources: clan names and religion, ceremonial organization, magical rites, magic and witchcraft, war customs, migration tale of the Mississauga, naming and names, lists of personal names with 4 pages, outline of monograph; two outlines for works on Odawa culture and a comparative and contrastive discussion of "The Two Boys" and "Twin Myth"; text of an interview with Jim Pontiac including the description of thirty-two Ojibwe villages of the Upper Peninsula in English or French and Ojibwe; etc.

Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)

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Ojibwe materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Language:Chippewa | English | Ojibwa, Northwestern

Date:1948, 1967-1968, 1985, 1993-1997, 2012-2015

Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text

Extent:1883 pages, 72 photographs, 1 film

Description: The Ojibwe materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Beckett, Gills, Hele, Jackson, Kurath, Morse, Pollak, Powers, White, Willets, and Wishart.

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

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Oneida materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Oneida | Menominee | Potawatomi | Mahican

Date:1938-1996

Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Pedagogy | Music | Wisconsin--History

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Oneida materials in the Lounsbury Papers include photographs in Series I. Series II contains plays and songs from the WPA Oneida Language Project and the Workers Alliance of the Oneida Indian Council. Also of interest are an Oneida dictionary by Mercy Doxtator, et al., a field notebook by Martin Joos, and Lounsbury's work on an Oneida dictionary. There are an abundance of recordings in Series VII including "Dekanawidah" as told by Demus Elm; the "opening" of the Thanksgiving address; sixteen conversations in Oneida; music. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Clifford Abbott's work, Oscar Archiquette's letter in Oneida, Harry Basehart work on Oneida language, medicine-compounding, false faces, [Oneida] hymnbooks, Leonard Bloomfield's study of alternative forms for Oneida numerals, William Fenton's studies of Oneida linguistics, Bryan Gick's the Harvey / Demus Creation / Tekanawita story in Oneida with a complete English translation, Tayokawe (Curtis John) language materials and recordings, Robert Ritzenthaler's Oneida recordings and translation of Oscar Archiquette's Oneida diary, Morris Swadesh on the Wisconsin Oneida language project, Tony Wonderly's list of Oneida personal names

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

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Oneida materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Oneida

Date:1995-1998, 2012-2015

Contributor:Antone, Harvey | Gick, Bryan | Nichols, David A. | Pollak, Margaret

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Interviews | Reports | Stories

Extent:385 pages

Description: The Oneida materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Gick, Nichols, and Pollak.

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

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Otomi materials, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Culture:

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Language:English | Otomi, Mezquital

Date:1973

Contributor:Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-

Subject:Humor | Folklore | Ethnography | Anthropology

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Stories

Extent:10 pages

Description: "Preliminary remarks on Otomi sexual humor." Regarding collection, taxonomy, etc., of sexual humor. Includes four Otomi jokes in English translation. Paper given at the meeting of the American Folklore Society, Nashville, Tennessee, November 3, 1973.

Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)

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Otomi materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Language:English | Otomi, Mezquital | Spanish

Date:1972, 1974

Contributor:Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-

Subject:Folklore | Hidalgo (Mexico : State)--History | Humor | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Stories

Extent:69 pages

Description: The Otomi materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bernard.

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