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Culture:
Rarámuri includes: Tarahumara
Language:English | Spanish | Tarahumara, Central
Date:1931, 1940
Contributor:Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953 | Henry, Jules, 1904-1969
Subject:Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Ethnography | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dictionaries | Field notes | Newsletters | Notebooks | Photographs | Vocabularies
Extent:300+ pages, 1800 slips, and 3 notebooks
Description: The Rarámuri materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items located in the "Tarahumara" section of the finding aid. There is a set of texts with interlinear Spanish translations (item U6a.2), recorded by Wendell Bennett, with a related lexical file (item U6a.1) of 1800+ word slips derived from the texts. Material recorded by Jules Henry consists of 3 field notebooks (item U6a.4) with texts with interlinear translations and biographical information on speakers who provided the stories. Henry's related "Tarahumara materials" (item U6a.3) includes a diverse set of items, including word lists, a draft dictionary, additional texts, a Spanish-Tarahumara newsletter, and a "Cartilla Tarahumara de Lectura" with photomechanical prints depicting housing, utensils, clothing, and social customs.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Date:1952
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Italio, Frank | Johnson, Annie | Johnson, Minnie | McClellan, Catharine | Reed, Jack | White, Charley | White, Jenny | Williams, Sarah
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Music | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type:Sound recording
Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 9 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recorded by Frederica de Laguna in the field at Yakutat, Alaska in 1952. Contains various types of Tlingit songs, including mourning songs, drinking songs, love songs, personal songs, and 3 Dene songs, most likely Southern Tutchone. Includes Raven and other stories with some translations. (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:Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska (Mss.Rec.19)
Culture:
Date:1951-1952
Contributor:Littlecreek, Mr.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Stories
Extent:1 sound tape reel (45 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Administered tests; Ojibwe text and phrase-by-phrase translation; Shawnee tests, text, and phrase-by-phrase translation. (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:Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk-and-Fox (Mss.Rec.14)
Culture:
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Language:Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | English
Date:1987-1988
Contributor:Austin, Josephina | Pierre, Rose | Prunet, Jean-Francois
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:4 audiocassettes (3 hr., 8 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recordings of the Dakelh ("Carrier") language made by Jean-François Prunet with speakers Josephina Austin and Rose Pierre in Vancouver, Burnaby, and Tache, B.C. Recoridngs consist of elicitation sessions of a 626-item word and phrase list with each speaker. (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:Recordings in the Carrier language (Mss.Rec.140)
Date:1989-1990
Contributor:Azak, Bertha | Belvin, Robert S. | Grandison, Pauline | Haizimsque, Sam | Haizimsque, Sarah | Robinson, Rosie | Williams, Verna
Subject:British Columbia--History | Linguistics | Music | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Prayers | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:5 sound tape reels (1 hr., 42 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings in Vancouver, British Columbia in August and September 1989, and in New Aiyansh, British Columbia in August 1990. Nisgha language elicitations, Vocabularies, and grammar; narratives about the Nisgha and Gitxsan, and the flooding of Old Aiyansh; free translations of Psalm 23 and the Lord's Prayer into Nisgha; brief Christian hymn sung in Nisgha. (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:Recordings of Nisgha language field studies (Mss.Rec.163)
Culture:
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Date:1994
Contributor:Cahwee, Bill | Cahwee, Mose | Squire, Martha
Subject:Dance | Fishing | Government relations | Hunting | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Religion | Social life and customs | Language study and teaching
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs
Extent:12 audiocassettes (8 hr., 20 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The collection includes English interviews with multiple Yuchi Indians on various topics, such as genealogy, Yuchi history, relations with the U.S. government, hunting and fishing, local churches, and tribal government. One tape records a Yuchi language class and planning meeting with numerous informal conversations. This collection also includes recordings of Green Corn Dance, Polecat Arbor Dance, Evening Dances, Ribbon Dance, and other performances. Recorded by Pamela Wallace at Kellyville, Sapulpa, Coweta, Glencoe, and Hectorville, Oklahoma in June and July of 1994. (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:Recordings of Yuchi people in Oklahoma (Mss.Rec.192)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1630-1682
Contributor:Conyngham, Redmond, 1781-1846
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents
Extent:66 p.
Description: The volume contains records relating to the history of Dutch settlers in the territories that the English acquired. It may contain references to Lenape people in the Delaware River area, though specific references have not yet been identified. These are copies of documents that are held at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were originally in Dutch but were translated to English in this volume. The documents contain records from as early as 1638 and continue through Edmund Andros' term as governor of New England and ends in 1700. The documents include many official government proclamations and legal documents relating to Dutch property and their rights within English colonies.
Collection:Records concerning the early settlements on the Delaware River (Mss.974.8.P37)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:2007-2011
Contributor:Lyon, John | Lindley, Lottie | Saddleman, Nancy | Menzies, Stacey | Bliss, Heather | Stewart, Rita | Tom, Theresa | McLeod, Sarah | Lindley, Isaac | Tom, Wilford | Tom, Josie
Subject:Funeral rites and ceremonies | Religion | Catholic Church | Linguistics | Medicine | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Stories | Songs
Extent:0.5 linear feet manuscripts; 8 compact discs containing 94 hours of audio
Description: Audio recordings and transcriptions in n̓səl̓xcin (Okanagan Salish). Consists of primarily of audio recordings, especially elicitation sessions focusing on a broad range of grammatical features; 22 traditional and autobiographical stories, most given in n̓səl̓xcin and English; conversations; and Catholic hymns and prayers. Contributors listed and subjects may not be complete. (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:Referring Expressions in Okanagan Salish: A syntactic and semantic study of demonstratives (Mss.Rec.285)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1955
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject:Ethnography | Religion | Medicine | Folklore | Music | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Essays | Songs
Extent:1 volume
Description: The draft of an unpublished book. Includes pictures and musical scores. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. Twelve chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Also, presnnts Ottawa superstitions (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see also #2642), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references.
Collection:Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians (Mss.497.3.K965a)
Language:English
Date:1972
Contributor:Boas, Franziska, 1902-1988
Subject:Anthropology | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Interviews | Oral histories
Extent:76 pages
Description: Franziska Marie Boas was the youngest of six children of anthropologist Franz Boas and Marie Krackowizer. These reminiscences of her father, Franz Boas (1858-1942), were the result of an interview by John R. Cole of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University in 1972. Portions of her life are highlighted but the primary focus is on her father, Franz Boas, with numerous comments on his students and colleagues. This is a typed transcript of the original interview reels in the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University, now the Columbia Center for Oral History.
Collection:Reminiscences of Franziska Boas : oral history, 1972 (Mss.B.B61re)