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Date:1900, 1918
Contributor:Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:428 pages
Description: The Alsea materials in the ACLS collection are located in the "Alsea" section of the finding aid. They consist of 2 items, the largest of which is Frachtenberg's "Yakonan (Alsea) grammar" (item Pn2c.1) intended for publication in Handbook of American Indian Languages, but never printed. Based on field work of J. Owen Dorsey (1884-Siletz, Oregon: vocabularies), Livingston Farrand (1900-Siletz reservation) and the author (1910). Table of contents, grammar, and texts with interlinear and free translations and grammatical notes. The collection also includes 6 pages of linguistic notes recorded by Edward Sapir in 1900 (item Pn2c.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Cayuse includes: Liksiyu, Natítayt
Date:1930
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Minthorne, Gilbert
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Notes | Stories | Vocabularies | Field notes
Extent:3 notebooks; circa 800 slips
Description: The Cayuse materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 notebooks and a lexical file in the "Cayuse" section of the finding aid. The notebooks (item Ps1a.1) contain texts with interlinear translations, as told to Morris Swadesh by Gilbert Minthorne, in the Niimi'ipuutímt language, including one text later published by Jarold Ramsey as "Fish Hawk's Raid Against the Sioux" (in the book "Coming To Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America", ed. Brian Swann, 1994, Vintage Books, New York). The lexical file (item Ps1a.3) contains approximately 800 slips, with Cayuse forms with English equivalents, arranged alphabetically by Cayuse. One section, "Wai'letpu Ethnology," concerns use of Cayuse dialect by Wallowa and Walla Walla.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English | Kathlamet | Chinook, Lower | Chinook, Upper | Chinook
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Oregon--History | Chinookan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to the Chinookan languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II, and consist of a folder with information on "Miscellaneous languages"--including Inuit ("Eskimo"), Takelma, Siouan, Maidu, Chinook, Tsimshian, Haida, Coos, and Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua)--in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries I. Eskimo-Aleutian; a folder on "Chinookan: Chinook, Wishram, Kathlamet" in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque; and a Chinook folder in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
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Coquille includes: Rogue River
Language:English
Date:2002-2003
Contributor:Doyle, Blanche | Murphy, Spud | Thomas, Joe | Younker, Jason
Subject:Oregon--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Interviews
Extent:12 audiocassettes (19 hr., 26 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recordings made as part of a project called "Coquille Interviews at Important Cultural Sites." The recordings are not currently indexed with additional detail for subject matter. (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:Coquille Interviews (Mss.Rec.277)
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Takelma includes: Rogue River
Date:1979
Contributor:Kendall, Daythal
Subject:Folklore | Anthropology | Ethnography | Oregon--History | Penutian languages
Type:Text
Extent:41 pages
Description: This is a typed copy of an article submitted by Daythal L. Kendall of the American Philosophical Society for a 1979 IJAL NATS volume of Coyote stories. It consists of Kendall's literary analysis of two Takelma myths collected by Edward Sapir from Francis Johnston at the Siletz Reservation, Oregon, in 1906. The myths appear in both Takelma and English.
Collection:Coyote and Pitch, amd Coyote Goes Courting (Takelma) (Mss.497.3.K341)
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Language:English
Date:1835-1848
Contributor:Lee, Jason, 1803-1845 | Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subject:Missions | Methodists | Oregon--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 reel
Description: Letters, principally of Rev. Jason Lee to Dr. Nathan Bangs, pertaining to the conduct of the Methodist Mission at Willamette, Oregon, for Flat Head [Salishan or Chinookan peoples], Kalapooya [Kalapuya], and other Indians (the Oregon Mission of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church). From originals held by the Board of Missions, Methodist Church, Philadelphia.
Collection:Documents relating to the Oregon Mission, 1835-1848 (Mss.Film.889)
Culture:
Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Nuxalk includes: Bella Coola, Bellacoola
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Nisga'a includes: Nass, Nisgha, Nishga, Nishka, Niska, Nisqa'a
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Klallam includes: Clallam, S'Klallam, nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm
Klickitat includes: Klikitat
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Cayuse includes: Liksiyu, Natítayt
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:Cayuse | Klallam | Cree, Plains | Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | Haida | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Kalapuya | Kutenai | Nez Perce | Nisga'a | Nuxalk | Ojibwa, Western | Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | Secwepemc | Squamish | Tlingit | Walla Walla
Date:1834-1836
Contributor:Black, Samuel | Dorion, Babtiste | Gardiner, Meredith | McKenzie, Benjamin | Ogden, Peter | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851
Subject:Linguistics | Alaska--History | Washington (State)--History | Idaho--History | Oregon--History | British Columbia--History | Ontario--History | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:2 volumes
Description: This collection contains two manuscript volumes collected by the naturalist John Kirk Townsend, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. The first volume contains a collection of multiple comparative vocabulary lists of languages of modern-day Washington, Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. Languages included are: "Okanagan" (N̓səl̓xcin), "Attnaha" or "Shoushwap" (Secwepemctsin), "Walla Walla (Sahaptin), "Squalyamish" (Squamish / Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ?), "Nooselalum" (Klallam / nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm), "Haeeltzuk" (Heiltsuk), "Billichoola" (Nuxalk), "Nass" (Nisga'a), "Haidah" (Haida), "Tongaase" (Tlingit, possibly inland variety), Nez Perce, Chinook [Jargon], "Carrier or Takelhé" (Dakelh), "Kayouse" (Cayuse), and "Kootenai" (Ktunaxa). The second volume is a collection of vocabulary lists of 19 Indigenous languages, primarily of the Pacific Northwest, re-copied from earlier notes in an orderly fashion with an index and additional introductory information on the area where each language is spoken and the source of the vocabulary. 15 of the vocabularies are re-copied out from the first volume in this collection. This volume includes the languages listed for that volume, plus Cree (possibly Plains Cree), "Kalapooyah" (Kalapuya), Klikatat (Sahaptin or Yakama), and "Seauteux" (Western Ojibwa/Ojibwe).
Collection:John Kirk Townsend Indian vocabularies collection (Mss.497.3.T66)
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Date:1915-1930
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Kenoy, Louis
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Music | Oregon--History | Personal names | Religion | Social life and customs | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:430 pages
Description: The Kalapuya material in the ACLS collection is concentrated primarily in the "Kalapuya" section of the finding aid, which contains several manuscripts relating to Kalapuya language, folklore, and ethnology, primarily recorded by Leo Frachtenberg and Jaime de Angulo. Additional materials can also be found in the "Tualatin" (also known as Atfalati/Wapato Lake) section of the finding aid, which includes autobiographical stories and linguistic analyses.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:1950 August
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Hecote, Ellen | Lang, Tom
Subject:Oregon--History | California--History | Politics and government | Treaties | Medicine | Music
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs
Extent:1 hr., 35 min.
Description: The Klamath materials in the William Fenton audio collection are located in "Series 8: Klamath Indian Political Texts" and on the first tape in "Series 9: Blackfoot Songs and Dances (plus 1 Klamath tape)." Recordings are "Klamath Tribal Council History," "Treaty of 1864 with Klamath Indians" (including song and discussion of Klamath music), both with Tom Lang; "Conversation on Klamath singing, with one song" and "Conversation on healing and songs" with Ellen Hecote; and Fenton's "Reading of notes on the beginning of factions on the Klamath Reservation" and "Reading of notes on Watson Duffy." Includes some information on Paiute and Fenton's reading of notes on interviewees David Chocktoot and Watson Duffy. For written materials relating to these recordings and Fenton's Klamath research generally, see the William Fenton Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20). (NOTE: This audio 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:William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)