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Date:1950, undated
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sambo, Sargent | Wicks, Clara | Wicks, Fred | Murree, Frank | Bateman, Haynes | Brown, Fanny
Subject:Linguistics | Coyote tales | Folklore | California--History
Type:Text | Cartographic | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Maps
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright made several audio recordings with Sargent Sambo in 1950 of Coyote tales, and a vocabulary, which can be found in Series 6. Among his other works, he was concerned with Shasta orthography, and developed a proposal for a new version, and derived lexica from others' published sources and archival notes (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Date:1994
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B.
Subject:Dance | Economic conditions | Linguistics | Medicine | Oklahoma--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:26 sound tape reels (12 hr., 21 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The collection consists of linguistic elicitations of different aspects of Shawnee grammar and vocabulary, and conversation, anecdotes, discussion, and personal narratives relating to Shawnee customs and history. The linguistic material includes elicitation of passive, imperative, hortative verbs, and other verb forrms, vocabulary for times of the day and year, weather, gender and age, color terms, and miscellaneous adjectives and full sentences. The other material includes a narratives given in Shawnee on on traditional roles of men and women and the use of eagle feathers in doctoring, and English anecdotes and conversation relating to topics such as: different types of dances, the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, the keeping of fire, how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, little people, the passing down of knowledge through elders, doctoring, the use of tobacco and peyote, and personal stories. Recorded in Oklahoma in 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:Shawnee language recordings (Mss.Rec.236)
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Date:1992
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:10 audiocassettes (14 hr.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings made in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in June 1992 with one unidentified consultant. Consists of elicitations in English and Shawnee based on data published in C. F. Voegelin's "Shawnee Stems and the Jacob P. Dunn Miami Dictionary" (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1938-1940). Examples were selected by the researcher to focus on noun incorporation and were assigned numbers. (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:Shawnee language recordings (Mss.Rec.161)
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Language:English
Date:After 1806, circa 1814
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology
Type:Text
Extent:2 pages
Description: A note on Barton's "Article on animals of America." Refers to his name for elk, Cervus Wapiti, derived from Shawnee. See also Barton (1806).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Language:English
Date:circa 1951-1953
Contributor:Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015
Subject:Land tenure | Land claims | United States. Indian Claims Commission | Anthropology | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Legal documents | Notes | Essays
Extent:4 folders
Description: The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers are a vast collection of materials relating to Wallace's work at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and history. See the finding aid for a detailed discussion of Wallace's long and varied career, and for an itemized list of the collection's contents. Though further research might yield more results, four items directly relating to the Shawnees have been identified. All concern Wallace's work as a researcher and expert witness on behalf of Native American land claims. In Series IX. Indian Claims, there are four folders labeled as follows: "Shawnee Indians--Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, et. al. vs. the United States of America, Docket No. 335" (1951), "Shawnee Indians--Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, et. al. vs. the United States of America, Docket 335: Ohio Trial Memoranda" (1953), "Shawnee Indians--Notes," and "Shawnee Indians--Tribal Histories."
Collection:Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64a)
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Language:English
Date:December 20, 1764
Contributor:Hall, David, 1714-1772
Subject:Diplomacy | Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Benjamin Franklin giving full account of the escape of the six Shawnee hostages and the reasons for it.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Culture:
Date:bulk 1980s-2000s
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932- | Andrews, Kenneth Ralph | Chrisley, Ronald L. | Williams, Mary | Porter, Philip | Alford, Thomas Wildcat | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948- | Wahpekeche, Meredith | Gibson, Lourie | Secondine, Eva | Bobb, Frank | Brown, Rachel | Brown, Jess | Ramirez, Helen | Bayliss, Jeanette | White, Leroy | Masquat, Lucille | Wahpepah, Pauline | Ellis, Joyce | Blanchard, Kenneth | Bierhorst, John | Price, John A. | Norcross, Amoena B.
Subject:Linguistics | Oklahoma--History | Indiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Field notes | Flyers | Dictionaries | Stories | Oral histories | Grammars | Correspondence
Extent:ca. 1.5 linear feet (2 boxes manuscripts, 1 box card files)
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Bruce L. Pearson Papers reflect his work with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma on the Shawnee language. Most significant is a field notebook in Series IV (begun in 1969 and continuing through the 1980s and 1990s), all of Series II, and a partially arranged index card file in Series IX. Series II contains a wide range of materials including lexica (variously published and unpublished sources), collected research by others, correspondence, research notes, and materials produced by the Absentee Shawnee tribe. There is also Shawnee material scattered in Series V (one of the "Southeastern Conference On Linguistics" folders), Series VI (see under Bierhorst, Price, and Taukchiray), and VIII (Amoena Norcross's dissertation).
Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)
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Language:English | Shawnee | Miami-Illinois
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Williams, Mary | Williams, Nancy | Voegelin, F. M. (Florence Marie), 1927-1989 | Daugherty, Frank
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Algonquian languages
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Stories | Essays | Drafts | Maps
Extent:95 folders, 12 boxes, 1 reel
Description: There is a significant amount of Shawnee material in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Materials are in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there are 4 boxes of Shawnee note cards (mostly vocabulary) and 2 folders of document notes (mostly linguistic notes, regarding transitive verbs, stems, phonology, etc.) in Series II. Card Files. Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin of Series III. Works by Voegelin contains two Shawnee texts that were translated and/or linguistically analyzed by Voegelin and which served as the basis of publications by Voegelin in the early 1950s: "Shawnee Episodes" (5 folders) and "Shawnee Laws" (44 folders of material) [see the finding aid for detailed descriptions of these materials]. Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin (also of Series III) contains files labeled "Basic Shawnee" and "Shawnee Morphology." There is a folder of linguistic notes (including a story in English) in "[Shawnee?]" and a list of tribal names in "Shawnee" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A. Language Names. There is a file of "Unique Shawnee Texts" containing Mary Williams' responses to "English Through Pictures" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts. There are 37 Shawnee notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. The notebooks date to 1934 and primarily contain texts, including many about the life of consultant Frank Daugherty., "the way it used to be," and the way life was more recently in 1934 in Oklahoma. Most of the notebooks are accompanied by handwritten notes and typescripts of transcriptions in Shawnee and translations in English. Shawnee is also represented on the language maps created for Voegelin's publications on Algonquian languages in Series VII. Photographs, and there is a reel of Shawnee audio recording (a reading of the transcript of "Shawnee Laws") in Series VIII. Recordings [This item has been digitized and is available through the APS Digital Library]. In Subcollection II, there is relevant correspondence with Leonard Bloomfield (regarding Shawnee work with Mary Williams) in Series I. Correspondence; 2 folders of Shawnee grammatical notes made by working with Mary Williams, a folder of miscellaneous Shawnee notes, and 2 folders of Shawnee texts (26 texts in Shawnee and English, and additional material) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian; and 8 boxes of Shawnee linguistic materials in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Date:1936-1952
Contributor:Ballard, W. L. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Williams, Mary
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Autobiographies
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Lounsbury Papers are relatively limited. Of special interest is an untranslated autobiography of Mary Williams in the Shawnee language in Series II.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Language:English
Date:1903-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Poole, Earl L. | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Social life and customs | Pennsylvania--History | Moravians | Clans | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Art | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Newspaper clippings | Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Shawnee language, history, and culture. Includes an essay on Speck's visit to an excavation site at Fort Hill, Pennsylvania in July 1903 in which he identifies the site as Shawnee; a letter from Carl Voegelin and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin transmitting lists of Shawnee dances to Speck; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin concerning field data on Shawnee use of false faces; an undated report by Wheeler-Voegelin on general burial traits, including a brief account of field experiences and an 8-page outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure; a letter from Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning Shawnee legends, asking about silk applique techniques, and enclosing news clippings; and 16 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Shawnee notes and correspondence, including two letters from Earl L. Poole (Reading Museum), together with a transcript of a 1747 letter of Conrad Weiser taken from American German Review: 12: 4, 18-19, April 1946, regarding meeting of Shawnees and Count Zinzendorf; a postal card from "C" on grasshopper war; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin; a letter from War Eagle concerning Bread Dance; 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; and notes on Shawnee clans.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)