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Culture:
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Date:1934
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Atakapa materials in the ACLS collection consist of "Atakapa fragments recorded from descendants of speakers" (item G5.1) found in the "Atakapa" section of the finding aid. This item is a fragmentary list of Atakapa terms with English equivalents, recorded near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Date:1802
Contributor:Duralde, Martin
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Texas--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:26 pages
Description: The Atakapa materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as Item 10: Martin Duralde's "Suite du vocabulaire de la langue des Atacapas," and items 12 and 13, which are letters of Duralde (in French and English) providing commentary on the vocabularies and context of their recording.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Language:English
Date:circa 1970-1979 and undated
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Mississippi--History | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Drafts | Reviews | Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's interest in the Biloxi and Ofo languages. Materials consist of three folders. There is an undated Biloxi-Ofo bibliography in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other; "Biloxi, Ofo, and Yuchi" [1970], a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in Series III-B. Works by Crawford--Yuchi; and a folder of drafts, page proofs, and a tear sheet of James M. Crawford's joint review in "American Anthropologist" of "The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages" by Wallace L. Chafe, "A Grammar of Biloxi" by Paula Ferris Einaudi, "A Grammar of Pawnee" by Douglas R. Parks, and "Wichita Grammar" by David S. Rood, located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1804
Contributor:Hunter, George, 1755-1823
Subject:Expeditions | Mounds | Warfare | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Botany | Louisiana--History | Music | Arkansas--History
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Travel narratives
Extent:107 pages
Description: "Journal up the Red and Washita rivers, with William Dunbar, by order of the U.S. with list of common names of some of the trees and vegetables from the River Washita." No. 2 of Explorations in the Louisiana Country. Describes mounds near Natchez and on the Ouachita. Mentions Caddo trace; Captain Jacobs, a Delaware Indian; Chickasaws, Choctaws, Osages (Little Osages and Grand Osages) and Pascagoulas; warfare and raids; and the singing of a Choctaw woman mourning a child. Printed (abstract only) as Jefferson (1806). [See also Hunter journals #473, volumes 2, 3, 4, May 27, 1804-March 29, 1805.]
Collection:Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803] (Mss.917.6.Ex7)
Language:English
Date:1803
Contributor:Wilson, Patrick
Subject:Expeditions | Louisiana Purchase | Louisiana--History | Economic conditions | Agriculture
Type:Text
Genre:Memoirs | Travel narratives
Extent:2 pages
Description: "Observations while passing thro' the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee nations." No. 3 in Explorations in the Louisiana Country. Reverend Patrick Wilson describes his observations while traveling on a road built between Choctaw and Chickasaw country, including the state of Native-white relations and the growing white population in the area. At Muscle Shoals, he stays with Cherokee chiefs Doublehead and Skiowska. Notes that many Native peoples have good farms, good furnishings, good fences, and good stock, and that one Native man runs an inn.
Collection:Mémoire sur le district du Ouachita dans la province de la Louisianne, [1803] (Mss.917.6.Ex7)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | English
Date:1930-1935, 1939, 1950
Contributor:Dardin, Sadie | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Genealogies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories | Field notes | Dictionaries
Extent:5,000 slips, 1,546 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in the ACLS collection consists of an extensive body of materials recorded by Morris Swadesh. These are located in the "Chitimacha" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Noteworthy materials include Swadesh's field notebooks, containing text (on a variety of topics) with interlinear translations, and extensive linguistic analysis of morphology, grammar, and other areas. These also include a brief genealogy. Also in this section are additional texts, and linguistic materials created from the fieldwork materials, such as a draft Chitimacha-English dictionary and a lexical file of over 4000 word slips. See also the single notebook in the "Koasati" section of the finding aid, which contains a French-English-Chitimacha wordlist from Mrs. Sadie Dardin.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | French
Date:1802
Contributor:Duralde, Martin
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as Item 11: Martin Duralde's "Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas," which includes commentary on Chitimacha religion.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1930s
Contributor:Oak, Liston M., 1895-1970
Subject:Basketry | Louisiana--History
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs
Extent:1 folder and 2 photographs
Description: The collection contains 3 items pertaining to Chitimacha people. (Use "Ctrl + F" or "Cmnd + F" keyword search for "Chitimacha" to locate these items in the collection guide quickly.) In the Subcollection I, Series II section of the collection guide, see "Oak, Liston M." for correspondence on Chitimacha baskets. In Series III: Photographs, see 4-11-u and 4-11-v for photos of baskets identified as either Chitimacha or Houma.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English | Chitimacha
Date:Undated
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:1 folder
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Chitimacha language. Chitimacha materials in the Crawford Papers are located in Series IV-D, Research Notes & Notebooks--Other, and consist of one folder containing six pages of undated notes on Chitimacha history and language, including bibliographic information.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Language:English
Date:1937-1938, 1969
Subject:Education | Fieldwork | Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Oklahoma--History
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 folders
Description: The Choctaw items in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers comprise a report by Mary Haas to Leslie Spier on Choctaw fieldwork (Series I, under Spier) and a newspaper clipping in Series II, Other Languages and Cultures of the Americas series.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)