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Cherokee materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Date:1941-1946; 1951-1952

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:1,652 pages, 920 slips, 59 phonograph discs, 4,500 cards

Description: The Cherokee materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 sets of material located in the "Cherokee" section of the finding aid. The smallest item is Frans Olbrechts' brief essay comparing Cherokee and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) syllabaries (item I2.1). Zellig Harris and John Witthoft's "Cherokee materials" (item I2.4) was conducted in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of grammatical Vocabularies and utterances, extensive grammatical notes and analyses, and numerous ethnographic and autobiographical stories, plus some songs, recorded on phonograph discs with Molly Sequoyah (mainly) and Will French. A small number of texts are written in the Cherokee syllabary as well. A second linguistic study by William Reyburn (item I2.3), conducted in Cherokee, North Carolina, consists of 1000+ pages of linguistic notes, transcriptions of recordings, and analyses, plus an extensive lexical file organized according to morpheme class. Reyburn's accompanying recordings are cataloged as Mss.Rec.16, "Cherokee materials gathered...on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C.," listed separately in this guide.

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

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Cherokee materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cherokee

Creek

Catawba includes: Iswa

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Language:English | Cherokee

Date:1920-1951

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:17 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Cherokee history and culture. This includes 24 pages of correspondence with Cherokee collaborators like Will West Long and Allen W. Long; 47 pages of field notes; notes and drafts relating to the preparation of Speck's manuscript on Cherokee music, dance, and drama; correspondence with colleagues such as George Herzog and Leonard Broom on Cherokee music, dance, and drama; correspondence with Franz Boas concerning copying of his Catawba texts and the Cherokee field work of Frans Olbrechts; correspondence with Will West Long about museum specimens; a biographical sketch of Will West Long; a postcard to Marian Godfrey regarding Cherokee Museum specimens; a letter to E. B. Norvell regarding silver trade goods and European imitations sold by the Cherokee; a bibliography of Cherokee sources, Publication 68650, listing 48 items, 1775-1922, prepared by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs; a copy of a 1566-1567 letter (7 pages in English, with introduction by Speck) written by Juan Pardo relating early Spanish contact with the Cherokee; an account of the Cherokee and Delaware alliance given by Witapanóxwe (War Eagle and James Webber); a transcription of an 1818 letter written by Charles Hicks on the manners and customs of the Cherokees; correspondence about Cherokee basketry; correspondence regarding the accuracy of material in Robert Strange, Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief (1939); and 27 pages of miscellanous notes. Also includes 100+ photographs.

Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)

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Cheyenne material

Culture:

Cheyenne

Language:Cheyenne | English

Date:1948

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories

Extent:5 sound tape reels (7 hr.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Field recordings made on 10 wire spools in 1948 in Lame Deer, Montana and El Reno, Oklahoma. Consists of traditional and historical stories, autobiographical narratives, unidentified texts, all given in Cheyenne only. Also includes discussions of the state of Cheyenne learning among the younger generation, and a variety of peyote, war dance, and hand game songs. Originally recorded on wire spools. (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:Cheyenne material (Mss.Rec.5)

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Cheyenne materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Cheyenne

Language:Cheyenne | English

Date:1949, 1963-1964, 1976, 1985-1987, 1991-1994, 2005, 2009

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Reports | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:1325 pages, 64 photographs

Description: The Cheyenne materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Berndt, Guerrier, Leman, Meadows, Merrill, Olson, Powers.

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

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Cheyenne stories

Culture:

Cheyenne

Language:Cheyenne | English

Date:1963-1964

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Stories

Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 24 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Cheyenne folkloric and autobiographical stories, given by 9 different speaekrs in Cheyenne only. Recorded in Norman, Oklahoma in 1963 and 1964. (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:Cheyenne stories (Mss.Rec.51)

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Cochiti materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Laguna includes: Kʾáwáigamʾé, Keres, Kawaika

Cochiti includes: Kotyit, Keres

Language:English | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western

Date:1919-1940, 1957

Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies

Type:Text

Genre:Notebooks | Shorthand | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:552 pages, 6 notebooks

Description: The Cochiti materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Cochiti" section of the finding aid, there is a set of 5 field notebooks (item Ke1.7) recorded by Boas in 1921-1922 containing his original field notes, texts, vocabularies, paradigms, and notes in German shorthand. A second set of loose-leaf notes (item Ke1.6) consists of texts with interlinear translations derived from the notebooks, 20 of which were later rendered into free translations by Ruth Benedict and published in 1931. In the "Keresan" section, Boas' "Keresan word list and linguistic notes" (item Ke1.1) contains 8 folders of Laguna and Cochiti grammatical, linguistic, folkloristic, and ethnographic materials. His "Keresan lexical file" (item Ke1.2) contains 8,000 Keresan terms, with some references to manuscripts from which they were derived, many of which are likely Cochiti. (This file may contain Western Keres as well.) In the "Laguna" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Laguna Vocabularies and texts" (item Ke2.4) includes Keresan, Laguna, and Cochiti Vocabularies, grammatical notes, and texts. Lastly, in the "Tewa" section, "Cochiti and San Juan Pueblo songs" (item Ke1.10) contains words, music, paraphrase of text, lists of ceremonial terms, and a "Phonologic chart for Cochiti Keresan and Tewa-Tanoan." NOTE: Portions of this material may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.

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

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Cocopah materials, James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages

Culture:

Cocopah includes: Cocopa, Cucapáh, Cucapá, Kwapa, Kwii Capáy

Language:Cocopa | English

Date:1963, 1965, 1967

Subject:Arizona--History | Folklore | Kinship | Linguistics | Music

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:10 sound tape reels (18 hr., 17 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: The Cocopah material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of 10 tapes of recordings in "Series 7: Cocopa." These recordings were made with several different speakers and include numerous traditional stories, songs, and elicitations of sentences and vocabularies. (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:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)

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Dakota and Lakota materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Oceti Sakowin includes: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Sioux

Lakota

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Language:Dakota | English | Lakota

Date:1838-1938 (bulk 1930s)

Type:Text

Extent:7500+ pages, 3300+ slips; 2 notebooks

Description: The Dakota and Lakota materials in the ACLS collection consist of a very large and diverse set of materials, and are located in the "Dakota" section of the finding aid, which provides a detailed listing of all contents. The vast majority of these materials were composed and assembled by Ella Deloria during the 1930s, both recorded from contemporary speakers and from various historical manuscript sources, which were sent to Franz Boas. The bulk of Deloria's materials are stories and speeches in typewritten manuscript form, with a transcription in the original language, followed by a literal word-for-word translation, then a free translation in English, and a section of footnotes commenting upon the original text and translation decisions. Some of her manuscripts occasionally lack one or more of these sections. These texts cover a wide range of topics, from traditional narratives, historical accounts, autobiographical stories, descriptions of games, customs, ceremonies, etc., and speeches, often concerning political affairs and economic conditions from the late-19th century to the 1930s. Names of numerous speakers are also given in the manuscripts themselves. Some of these materials were published, but most were not. Note that Deloria identifies the language recorded by using the terms "Teton" for Lakota language, and "Santee" and "Yankton" to indicate Eastern and Western dialects of Dakota language. The collection also includes a much smaller amount of material by Boas and others, primarily consisting of linguistics notes and musical analysis. A full list of places where the material was recorded has not yet been assembled.

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

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Field notes, 1978, for Central Alaskan Yupik, Chevak dialect

Culture:

Yup'ik includes: Yupik, Yupiit, Yup'ik, Central Alaskan, Eskimo (pej.)

Cup'ik includes: Yupik

Language:English | Cup'ik, Chevak

Date:1978

Contributor:Woodbury, Anthony C.

Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Warfare

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories

Extent:9 microfiche cards

Description: Field notes accompanying linguistic field recordings made in Chevak, Alaska. The notes are contained in three notebooks, and include Yupik words, phrases, and texts.

Collection:Field notes, 1978, for Central Alaskan Yupik, Chevak dialect (Mss.Fiche.13)

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Fieldwork in the Menominee language

Culture:

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Language:English | Menominee

Date:1999-2000

Type:Sound recording

Extent:11 audiocassettes (10 hr., 11 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Linguistic recordings with Menominee speakers, focusing on negative forms, autobiographical and traditional stories, word lists, and conversations. Also includes some songs and prayers. Access to this collection is currently restricted by request of the Menominee Tribe.

Collection:Fieldwork in the Menominee language (Mss.Rec.254)