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Language:English
Date:March 13, 1868
Contributor:Miller, Edward, 1826-1900
Subject:Military history | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Charles B. Trego concerning plains Indian raid. Transmits memoir on this, and sends picture of body of Sergeant [Frederick] Wylliams [Wyllyams] following Indian attack.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:October 6, 1805
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Art | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Charles Willson Peale, from original at University of Texas. Jefferson has received articles from Captain Lewis, including minerals for the American Philosophical Society. "There are some articles which I shall keep for an Indian Hall I am forming at Monticello, e.g., horns, dressed skins, utensils, etc., and I am now packing for you...[some animal skeletons]."
Collection:Peale-Sellers Family Collection (Mss.B.P31)
Language:English
Date:March 8, 1840
Contributor:Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Skulls | Phrenology | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Morton acknowledges receipt of skulls of Indian tribes west of the Mississippi and thanks Joseph Nicholas Nicollet for sending them.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1807
Contributor:Clark, William, 1770-1838 | Sibley, John, 1757-1837
Subject:Indian agents | New Spain | Fur trade
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two letters, both copies. John Sibley wrote to Samuel H. Sibley of Indians under his agency, the Burr and Wilkinson affair, and Pike's expedition. Hopes Spanish affair will be settled soon. In an enclosure, William Clark wrote to Henry Dearborn (Secretary of War) of Indian agency affairs: mentions Mandan, Osage, Padoucers, Panias, Saukee, and especially the Sioux. Talks of new fur trading companies and makes recommendations for conduct of Indian affairs.
Collection:Zebulon Montgomery Pike biographical materials (Mss.B.P63)
Culture:
Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt
Wishram includes: Wasco-Wishram
Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Mandan includes: Nueta
Hidatsa includes: Hiratsa, Hiraacá, Gros Ventre, Minnetaree
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Blackfeet includes: Blackfoot, Niitsítapi, Siksika, Siksikaitsitapi
Arikara includes: Sahnish, Arikaree, Hundi
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:English
Date:1805-1806
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | Clark, William, 1770-1838
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:4 books
Description: The Plateau materials in the Lewis and Clark journals include discussions of the following tribes: Blackfoot; Salis; Dakota; Walla Walla; Nez Perce, Mandan; Shoshone; Hidatsa; Arikara; Crow; Chinook; Wishram; Assiniboine; Shahaptian. Also listed are tribes with names no longer in use: Shalee (Ootlashoot), Shallalah, Skitswish, Willetpos, Castahana, Tushepaw, Quamash, Cathlamet, Cathlapotle, Chiluckittequaw, Cathlamet, Cathlapotle, Chiluckittequaw, Clatsop, Enesher, Friendly Village, Multnomah (Wappato), Quamash, Shahaptian, Skilloot, Sokulk, Wahkiakum, Chopunnish, Sokulk, Chimnapum, Willetpos, Chalee, Sheetsomish, and Chopunnish.
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1892, 1904
Contributor:Adney, Edwin Tappan | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Webster, J. Clarence
Subject:History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Pocasset material in the A. Irving Hallowell Papers is in Series V, box 28, in a folder labled "Mohegan and Text; Falls Indian Reservation. Materials are copied from early sources.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1997
Contributor:Beauvais, Sandra | Deer, Joe | Delisle, June | Provencher, Charlotte Bush | Reid, Gerald F., 1953- | Satehenhatie
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews
Extent:7 audiocassettes (5 hr., 16 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Oral history interviews in English conducted at Kahnawake, Quebec, in October 1997, focused on political organization, social movements, socio-political political developments in Kahnawake in the late 19th- and early 20th-century, including the opposition of the establishment of an order of teaching nuns on the reserve, the Council of Tribes (or Thunderwater Movement,) and the re-establishment of the Longhouse in Kahnawake in the 1920s. (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:Political organization among the Kanienkehaka [Mohawk] of Southern Quebec, 1890s to 1920s (Mss.Rec.261)
Culture:
Language:English | Pomo, Central
Date:1920-1935;
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Benson, William Ralganal
Subject:Hokan languages | Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:860 pages
Description: The Pomo materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials by Jaime de Angulo are primarily found in the "Pomo" section of the finding aid. This section includes 4 items, including "The reminiscences of a Pomo chief" (item H5.3), which contains an autobiography of William Ralganal Benson, dictated in the Yukaya dialect, along with grammatical notes. Additional items (H5.1, H5.2 and H5.4) include grammatical and other linguistic studies by de Angulo. In the "Achumawi" section, the first two items (H.1 and H.2) contain comparisons of Pomo with Achumawi to determine their relationship and clarify the theoretical Hokan language family.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1940
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Hokan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: One item relating to Pomo languages has been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. It is in Subcollection II, and consists of A. M. Halpern's essay "Memorandum on the Survey of Pomo Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:English | Pomo, Eastern | Pomo, Central
Date:circa 1907-1934
Subject:Kinship | California--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:unclear
Description: The Pomo materials in the Franz Boas Papers are of unclear total extent, though a few letters relating to Pomo languages and peoples have been identified. In the correspondence with Jaime de Angulo, see especially the letter sent by de Angulo to Boas on December 5, 1934, which details Pomo kinship terms in "Clear Lake" and "Yukaya" Pomo. Other letters in the de Angulo-Boas correspondence may contains other discussion of Pomo languages. In the correspondence with Alfred Kroeber, mentions of Pomo can be found in letters from Kroeber to Boas on December 17, 1907, and May 4, 1927, as well as letter from Boas to Kroeber on May 3, 1930. The collection may contain additional letters and correspondences of relevance beyond these that have not yet been identified.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)