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Date:1783-1817
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | McAtee, William L.
Subject:Botany | Health | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:107 pages
Description: These letters authored by Benjamin Barton Smith to various correspondents discuss Indian vocabulary words for birds, earthquakes, and animals of their domestic economy. Smith solicits information about Indian beliefs about health, nursing, menstration, animal sacrifice, Indian Bible, origins of Indian tribes, white race, Orthography and spelling, chief's political power, and comparative linguistic analysis between Indian and Asiatic languages.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
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Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886, 1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Cowichan materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #3 and Field notes 1888 #2.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
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Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:circa 1890
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:113 pages
Description: The Cowichan materials in the ACLS collection are found in the "Halkomelem" section of the finding aid, in item S2i.1 "Nanaimo, Cowichan, and Lower Fraser materials", which contains some vocabulary recorded from an unidentified Cowichan speaker.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:Cree | Cree, Southern East
Date:1969
Contributor:Fiero, Charles E. | Hisey, Helen | Stocken, Albert | Mayappo, Allan | Trapper, Mary | Moses, James
Subject:Ontario--History | Quebec--History | Minnesota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Vocabularies | Grammars | Stories
Extent:ca. 152 p.
Description: The only Cree materials in the Charles E. Fiero Papers are "A Report on Coastal Montagnais-Naskapi by Helen Hisey and Charles Fiero" in Series I, with possibly similar materials on CD in Series II. Despite being titled "Coastal Montagnais-Naskapi", this is likely Southern East Cree, as the consultants are residents of Eastmain and Moose Factory, on James Bay. Fieldwork was done at Mokahum Indian Bible School, Cass Lake, Minnesota, where Fiero was working. The material includes grammatical analysis, interlinear texts, and lexica.
Collection:Charles E. Fiero Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.187)
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Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree | Cree, Plains | Cree, Woods | Cree, Moose | Cree, Swampy
Date:1964-1987
Contributor:Ahenakew, Freda, 1932-2011 | Dahlstrom, Amy | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Smith, James G. E. | Ellis, C. D. (Clarence Douglas), 1923-
Subject:Linguistics | Animals | Botany | Education
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Notes
Description: The Cree materials in the Siebert papers are all related to the language, mostly within Series IV and mostly articles collected by Siebert. They include vocabulary and grammatical materials. There are also 34 tapes of instructional materials in Swampy Cree and Moose Cree, in Series XII, which accompanied "Spoken Cree, west coast of James Bay" by C. Douglas Ellis (not digitized).
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Date:1967-1977
Subject:Linguistics | Games
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Haas did not conduct her own research on Cree, but did collect notes and publications from other researchers, in particular H. Christoph Wolfart, who sent Haas a 3-page lexicon of Plains Cree playing card terms. Relevant items may be found in Series 1 and Series 2 Subseries ‘Cree' and ‘Multiple Languages'.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Swampy
Date:April 15, 1872; April 30, 1945; October 1, 1948
Contributor:Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909 | Ahenakew, Edward
Subject:Linguistics | Missions | Religion | Manitoba--History | Ethnography | Genealogy
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:3 items
Description: Young's "Rossville Mission Indian vocabularies," Cree vocabulary collected at the Rossville Mission near Norway House, Manitoba. Ahenakew's "The Cree Indians' theology," discusses various Cree conceptions of Muneto; describes attempt to acquire personal Muneto; mentions sun dance for Thunderbird. Letter from Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, transmits genealogy of his family and information on Skunkskin. Hopes to write on Metawiwin societies, mentions Tar Blanket and Susukwamoos as high in Metawiwin. People at Ahenakew's reserve have been Christian for four generations; has to travel to get ethnographic information.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Date:circa 1910-1916
Contributor:Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
Subject:Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:42 pages
Description: The Crow materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Crow" section of the finding aid, "Crow Affixes" (item X3b.1) recorded by Robert Lowie, containing affixes arranged alphabetically by the Crow, apparently copied from texts and field notes.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Date:1930s
Contributor:Deernose, Ruby | Frost, Alvin
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:1 folder
Description: During Haas' early fieldwork in Oklahoma in the 1930s, she documented small amounts of many languages in the area. One was Crow, which features in a notebook in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages', and includes lexica and phonological analysis. Nothing was apparently published from this work.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Cuitlatec includes: Cuitlateco
Date:1939
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:15 pages
Description: The Cuitlatec materials in the ACLS collection consists of one item in the “Mexico” section of the finding aid: “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5) which includes Cuitlatec vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)