Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: This volume contains extracts of Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau. The bulk of the volume is comprised of word list of 54 words with equivalents listed in a range of 50-70 languages. While Barton listed no authority, Du Ponceau cited sources. Languages with words listed include Chitimacha, Atakapa, Cherokee, Osage, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Nottoway, Kansa, Omaha, Dakota, Pawnee, Nanticoke, Gros Ventres, Miami, Mi'kmaq, Seminole, Quapaw, Yuchi, Delaware, Ojibwe, Shawnee, Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora, Natches, Wyandot, Creek, Mahican, Mohegan, and many others. The word list includes the terms for God, heaven, and sky, as well as various terms relating to kinship, parts of the body, weather, and more. The volume also includes notes on sounds of the Otomi (Othomi) observations on declension; observations about the Omaha, Kansa, Oto, Arkansas, and Missouri languages; and notes on symbol and sound. Also includes a newspaper clipping of a review (in German) of Barton's "New Views" that appeared in "Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799.

Collection:A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages (Mss.497.B28)

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Algonquian materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Shawnee

Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Penobscot

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Cheyenne

Blackfeet includes: Blackfoot, Niitsítapi, Siksika, Siksikaitsitapi

Date:circa 1930s-1960s

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Algonquian languages | New England--History | Orthography and spelling

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:25 folders, 1 box

Description: There are many materials relating to Algonquian languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials labeled as Algonquian or Macro-Algonquian, or having to do with several Algonquian languages in a general way. Researchers should also view the entries for specific Algonquian languages and culture groups. Algonquian materials are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with Leonard Bloomfield (regarding an inscription on a silver bracelet; Bloomfield's "Menomini Grammar"), Charles Hockett (with questions about Voegelin's article on Delaware and examples from other Algonquian languages), and Morris Swadesh (including a brief Stockbridge vocabulary and a slip of Moravian Delaware) in Series I. Correspondence; 1 box of comparative Algonquian vocabulary and grammar in Series II. and several linguistic maps (i.e., "Algonquian language text with illustrations" and "Linguistic classification of the Southern New England Algonquians"), particularly of the Potawatomi, Delaware, and Shawnee, to accompany the texts of Voegelin's work on Algonquian languages, in Series VII. Photographs. In Subcollection II, there is relevant correspondence from Eric Hamp (to Ives Goddard regarding preparation of Arapaho and Algonquian works) and Frank Speck (to Edward Sapir regarding his work on Mi'kmaq and other northern Algonquian languages and societies) in Series I. Correspondence. There is also an entire subseries devoted to Macro-Algonquian: Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian of Series II. Research Notes. This subseries contains a grammatical sketch of Algonquian by Leonard Bloomfield (135 pages of typescript with handwritten edits and 7 interleaved pages of notes by Voegelin); another "Sketch of Algonquian" by Bloomfield consisting of a notebook (approx. 45 pages) and handwritten notes (approx. 80 pages); 5 folders of notebooks focusing on beginning sounds ("Č and K," "L and M," "N and P," " Š and T," and "Θ and ?"), drawing from Pacific Coast Algonquian ("PCA"), Fox [Meskwaki], Plains Cree, Menominee, and Ojibwe; 3 folders of other comparative Algonquian notebooks organized by general nouns, body parts, kinship terms, numerals, and verbs; miscellaneous Algonquian notes; and specimens of Central Algonquian, including short texts in Fox [Meskwaki], Ojibwe, Menominee, and Plains Cree, with English translations. The rest of the material in the Macro-Algonquian folder is organized according to specific languages: Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Fox (Meskwaki), Kutenai [Ktunaxa culture], Ojibwe, Penobscot, and Shawnee. Finally, there is an article titled "Some Observations on Algonquian Phonology" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works; an incomplete typed draft of Bloomfield's "Sketch of Algonquian" in Series IV. Works by Others; and a "Linguistic map of Southern New England" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries V: American Indian Languages.

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

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Beothuk materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Beothuk

Date:1915

Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

Subject:Linguistics | Newfoundland--History

Type:Text

Genre:Vocabularies

Extent:5 pages

Description: The Beothuk materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Algonkian" section of the finding aid, entitled "Beothuk-Algonkian comparisons" (item Be.1). This document was prepared for Sapir, copied from Rev. John Leigh's transcription of John Peyton's vocabulary. It compares 45 Beothuk items with Montagnais and Penobscot as well as isolated Micmac, Ojibwe, and Abenaki equivalents.

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

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Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages

Culture:

Unkechaug includes: Unquachog

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Shawnee

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Nanticoke

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Creek

Chitimacha

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Algonquin

Date:n.d., 1792-1808?; 1802-1808

Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Vocabularies

Extent:1 volume

Description: 4 pages of words from Jefferson's standard form, with equivalents in Mohiccon and three other languages numbered as 1, 6, 7 (Mohiccon), and 8. A comparative vocabulary of 22 languages, arranged tabularly to follow Jefferson's standard printed vocabulary form. Languages include Delaware, Unami, Monsi, Chippewa, Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Tawa, Shawanee, Nanticoke, Mohiccon, Unkechaug, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Miami, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Tuscarora, Chetimacha, and Atacapa.

Collection:Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (Mss.497.J35)

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Conjugation of the verb "to hear" in its various forms in the Chippeway language

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Ojibwe

Date:n.d., 1830-1833, before 1839

Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | James, Edwin, 1797-1861

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Grammars

Extent:1 volume

Description: Printed sheets pasted into volume; manuscript notes by Peter S. Du Ponceau.

Collection:Conjugation of the verb "to hear" in its various forms in the Chippeway language (Mss.497.J23)

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Indian dictionary, Green Bay

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Ojibwe | Ho-Chunk

Date:1822

Contributor:Kelso, Henry B.

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Dictionaries

Extent:1 volume

Description: Ojibwa-English vocabulary, no order. Ho-chunk numerals. Family genealogical data and miscellaneous jottings.

Collection:Indian dictionary, Green Bay (Mss.497.3.K295)

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Menomini materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Shawnee

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Penobscot

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Date:1964-1975

Contributor:Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Miner, Kenneth L., (Kenneth Lee), 1936- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998

Subject:Linguistics | Animals | Botany | Ethnography

Type:Text

Genre:Grammars | Reviews | Vocabularies

Description: The Menomini materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and VII. Siebert's work on the Menomini can be found in a notebook in Series V that contains material related to Cree, Ojibwa, and Penobscot. Vocabulary lists of insects, birds, animals, fish, trees, berries, plants, and relationships.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)

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Meskwaki materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Shawnee

Penobscot

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Quapaw includes: Arkansas, Ugahxpa

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Cherokee

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Date:1945-1992

Subject:Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography

Type:Text

Genre:Grammars | Dictionaries

Description: The Meskwaki materials in the Siebert collection are listed under the term "Fox" and can be found in Series IV, V, VII. Much of the material consists of secondary sources, although there is some material in Siebert's notebooks (Series V). Siebert's interest in Meskwaki was primarily in terms of comparative linguistics.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)

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Mi'kmaq materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati

Penobscot

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie

Illinois Confederation

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:Mi'kmaq | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy | Miami-Illinois | Abenaki, Eastern | Ojibwe

Date:1856-1857; 1913-1915; 1938-1955; 1974-1985

Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | Dance

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Mi'kmaq materials in the Siebert Papers contains a wide range of materials located in Series I, III, V, VII, and XII. The items include historical wars from the early 17th century to linguistic studies to recordings of Mi'kmaq songs and dances.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)

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Myaamia materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Date:1963; 1964

Contributor:Lamb, E. Wendell | Shultz, Lawrence W.

Subject:Folklore | Warfare | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Notes | Grammars

Description: The Myammia materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and V. Of special interest is a faint, handwritten transcript of unknown historical document with heading "Itinerary May 2, 1763." Mentions travel writing of Lewis Hennepin (1680-1691), and a skirmish involving Iroquois and Miamis.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)