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Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1885
Contributor:Newhouse, Seth
Subject:Great Law of Peace | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Stories
Extent:1 volume, 302 pages
Description: Copy of original, formerly in possession of Ray Fadden, St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Hogansburg, New York, now in possession of Mohawk tribe. Includes story of Dekanawidah, lists of chiefs, ceremonial chants (including Condolence Council), constitution and its acceptance (pages 1-200), version of same in Mohawk with interlinear translation, names of principal families, and incomplete "aboriginal dictionary." Marginal notes by William N. Fenton. Fully described in Fenton (1949).
Collection:Cosmology of De-ka-na-wi-da's government of the Iroquois confederacy, 1885 (Mss.970.3.Ir6)
Culture:
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886, 1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Cowichan materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #3 and Field notes 1888 #2.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:circa 1890
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:113 pages
Description: The Cowichan materials in the ACLS collection are found in the "Halkomelem" section of the finding aid, in item S2i.1 "Nanaimo, Cowichan, and Lower Fraser materials", which contains some vocabulary recorded from an unidentified Cowichan speaker.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Plains
Date:1925; Circa 1935; 1948; 1949;
Contributor:Achenam, Harry | Achenam, Maggie | Ahenakew, Edward | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Constant, Jerry | Cook, Sam | Moostoos, James | Moostoos, Susan | Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 | Starblanket, Chief | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Genealogy | Folklore | Linguistics | Material culture | Religion | Saskatchewan--History | Treaties | Warfare | Windigo
Type:Text
Genre:Abstracts | Autobiographies | Correspondence | Drawings | Stories
Extent:830 pages
Description: The Cree materials in the ACLS collection are Plains Cree materials predominantly from Saskatchewan and are located in the "Cree" section of the finding aid. "Plains Cree texts, "Series Two: Syllabary Texts from Sweet Grass Reserve"" (item A1.1) recorded by Harry Achenam of Sweetgrass Reserve (and previously attributed to Leonard Bloomfield), contains 67 unpublished stories written in Cree syllabics. The other primary materials are several items (64-68 and 70) by Edward Ahenakew, written in English, concerning his family's genealogy, methods for tanning leather and building canoes, accounts of medicine practices and conjuring, and stories of little people, Wetikoo (or Wihtigo, Windigo), and other non-human beings. Many of these stories were given by various consultants such as Chief Starblanket of Ahtahkakoop, Jerry Constant, James Moostoos, and Susan Moostoos.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Cree | Innu-aimun
Date:1911-1931, 1936, 1938-1948
Contributor:Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909- | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Schaeffer, Claude E. | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wallace, Paul A. W.
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Museum specimens | Québec (Province)--History | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Photographs | Pictographs
Extent:6+ folders; 60+ photographs; 1 film
Description: The Cree material in the Frank Speck papers are scattered around multiple sections of the finding aid, mostly in Subcollection I, Series I. In this series, see item II(2A5), containing correspondence from P.G. Downes to Speck regarding Cree in Quebec. See item II(2F3), which includes notes from A. irving Hallowell to Speck regarding field work visiting Sweet Grass Cree, mentioning attitude of Cree to Leonard Bloomfield. Item II(4B9c) contains Speck's field notes on the Mistassini band, including notes on relationship between Cree and Montagnais languages, as well as museum specimens. Item II(2G1) includes Naskapi names in Cree syllabary; the Lord's Prayer in Cree; miscellaneous syllabary Cree words, and images of 79 pictographs. In Subcollection I, Series II, see correspondence with Claude Schaeffer regarding Rocky Boy Cree, and correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace regarding Cree tales (Wissakutchek) collected by Edward Ahenakew in Alberta. In Subcollection I, Series III, there are 4 "Cree" photograph folders containing approximately 60 photographs. See also "Naskapi films," located in Subcollection II, Series IV, Photographs and Video, which includes some footage of some Cree people.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree | Cree, Plains | Cree, Woods | Cree, Moose | Cree, Swampy
Date:1964-1987
Contributor:Ahenakew, Freda, 1932-2011 | Dahlstrom, Amy | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Smith, James G. E. | Ellis, C. D. (Clarence Douglas), 1923-
Subject:Linguistics | Animals | Botany | Education
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Notes
Description: The Cree materials in the Siebert papers are all related to the language, mostly within Series IV and mostly articles collected by Siebert. They include vocabulary and grammatical materials. There are also 34 tapes of instructional materials in Swampy Cree and Moose Cree, in Series XII, which accompanied "Spoken Cree, west coast of James Bay" by C. Douglas Ellis (not digitized).
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Date:1967-1977
Subject:Linguistics | Games
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Haas did not conduct her own research on Cree, but did collect notes and publications from other researchers, in particular H. Christoph Wolfart, who sent Haas a 3-page lexicon of Plains Cree playing card terms. Relevant items may be found in Series 1 and Series 2 Subseries ‘Cree' and ‘Multiple Languages'.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Swampy
Date:April 15, 1872; April 30, 1945; October 1, 1948
Contributor:Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909 | Ahenakew, Edward
Subject:Linguistics | Missions | Religion | Manitoba--History | Ethnography | Genealogy
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:3 items
Description: Young's "Rossville Mission Indian vocabularies," Cree vocabulary collected at the Rossville Mission near Norway House, Manitoba. Ahenakew's "The Cree Indians' theology," discusses various Cree conceptions of Muneto; describes attempt to acquire personal Muneto; mentions sun dance for Thunderbird. Letter from Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, transmits genealogy of his family and information on Skunkskin. Hopes to write on Metawiwin societies, mentions Tar Blanket and Susukwamoos as high in Metawiwin. People at Ahenakew's reserve have been Christian for four generations; has to travel to get ethnographic information.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:Cree, Plains | English
Date:1967-1968, 1971, 1983, 1992-1994
Contributor:Armoskaite, Solveiga | Cardinal, Toni | Cook, Clare | Muehlbauer, Jeffrey | Powers, William K. | Wolfart, H. Christoph
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports | Stories
Extent:592 pages
Description: The Cree materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Armoskaite, Blain, Powers, and Wolfart.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Date:circa 1910-1916
Contributor:Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
Subject:Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:42 pages
Description: The Crow materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Crow" section of the finding aid, "Crow Affixes" (item X3b.1) recorded by Robert Lowie, containing affixes arranged alphabetically by the Crow, apparently copied from texts and field notes.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)