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Language:English
Date:1877
Contributor:Fair, Edwin B.
Subject:Montana--History | North Dakota--History | Military history
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 letters
Description: A small collection of letters by Corporal Edwin B. Fair, who apparently joined Company E of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry, formerly under George Custer's command, a few months after Custer and his forces were defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn, or the Battle of the Greasy Grass. Fair writes home to his sisters from his posts in the Dakota Territory and Montana. In the letters, Fair describes the daily life of and conditions faced by a common soldier stationed on the Plains; buffalo hunting; encounters with Native people, particularly the Crow and Nez Perce; and patrol and reconnaissance missions in Yellowstone National Park and other places. Fair relates the events and scenes witnessed in the plain, unvarnished vernacular of the day.
Collection:Edwin B. Fair Letters (Mss.SMs.Coll.17)
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Language:English
Date:1984
Contributor:Hanks, Christina Johannsen, 1950-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Art | Indian artists | Art | Politics and government | History
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations
Extent:292 pages
Description: This dissertation was submitted to the anthropology department of Brown University by Christina Barbara Johannsen (later Hanks) in 1984. The author was also the founding director (and later on the Board of Directors) of the Schoharie Museum of the Iroquois Indian and a trustee of the Mohawk Caughnawaga Museum. The dissertation is based on fieldwork with Haudenosaunee artists and craftspeople and in museum collections. The author attempted to draw from Haudenosaunee communities through the United States and Canada to show how modern Haudenosaunee art has become "a means of maintaining and expressing a sense of Iroquois identity in a non-Iroquois world," and that the 1970s were in particular a moment of efflorescence as the People of the Longhouse asserted their identity through political activism and art.
Collection:Efflorescence and identity in Iroquois arts (Mss.970.6.J57e)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:circa 1850-1857
Contributor:Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857
Subject:Grinnell Expedition | Arctic regions | Nunavut--History | Kayaks | Hunting | Clothing and dress | Architecture | Expeditions
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Notebooks | Diaries | Journals | Correspondence | Drawings | Sketches | Watercolors | Maps
Extent:.5 linear feet
Description: Philadelphia-born adventurer Elisha Kent Kane is perhaps best remembered for his involvement in both the First and Second Grinnell Expeditions (1850-1851 and 1853-1855, respectively) in search of lost Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin. The Elisha Kent Kane Papers also deal with Kane's other travels (to China, Africa, Mexico, etc.) as well as his rather scandalous personal life. During his time in the Arctic, Kane observed local Inuit peoples, and as an incessant doodler he created hundreds of images as well as textual records. Kane's observations of Inuits are located primarily in Series IV. Bound Volumes and Series V. Graphics. Series IV includes a notebook, a letterbook (with sketches, including images of Inuits kayaking), a logbook, a notebook of specimens located in the Arctic, a meteorological journal, and a diary from the First Grinnell Expedition, and two volumes of notebooks (with meteorological observations and sketches) from the Second Grinnell Expedition. Series V contains over 200 sketches, watercolors, silhouettes, maps, and engravings of Inuits of Baffin Bay drawn by Kane during both arctic expeditions. Primarily from the first trip, images include portraits of individuals in native attire, landscapes, dwellings, hunting tools, kayaks, and encampments. As noted above, Kane's log and notebooks are also dotted throughout with sketches. Of note in the Graphics series is a watercolor of an Inuit boy netting auks. Kane's published works, "The United States Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin (1853)" and "Arctic explorations: the second expedition…(1857)," include engravings of all his original drawings. These images are referenced in the sketch file, the finding aid contains a detailed inventory, and some have been digitized and are part of the APS Digital Library. There might also be some Inuit-related material in Series I. Correspondence and Series III. George W. Corner, Notes on Elisha Kent Kane. Corner prepared a biography of Kane, and this series includes copies of letters and documents relating to Kane and his expeditions held in other libraries, as well as some of Corner's notes and drafts of writings on Kane, including a copy of A.F.C. Wallace, "An interdisciplinary approach to mental disorder among the Polar Eskimos of Northwest Greenland."
Collection:Elisha Kent Kane Papers (Mss.B.K132)
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Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Apache includes: Inde
Apache, Chiricahua includes: Nde
Language:English
Date:Circa 1880-1900
Contributor:American Horse, Dakota chief, 1840-1908 | Bailey, Dix | Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934 | Crow King, d. 1884 | Fly, C. S., (Camillus Sidney), 1849-1901 | Gall, Dakota chief, 1840-1894 | George, Abraham | Geronimo, 1829-1909 | Goff, O. S. (Orlando Scott), 1843-1916 | Goose, ca. 1836-1916 | Grass, John, 1837?-1918 | Irwin, William E., 1871-1935 | One Bull, 1853-1947 | Rain in the Face, ca. 1835-1905 | Scott, George W., 1854-1910 | Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 | Spotted Tail, Brule Sioux Chief, 1823-1881 | Stephan, A. E. | White Bull, Joseph, 1849-1947 | Crow
Subject:Arizona--History | New Mexico--History | North Dakota--History
Type:Still Image
Genre:Photographs
Extent:19 photographs
Description: The Ellen Lehman Native American Photograph Collection consists of 19 albumen prints of late nineteenth-century Native American leaders on cabinet cards. The bulk of the images date from the 1880s and portray important members of the Dakota Indian tribes, many of whom fought against the 7th Cavalry of the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Among the leaders depicted are: Sitting Bull, Gall, Rain in the Face, Crow King, and White Bull. The collection also includes two images of Geronimo, the Bedonkohe Apache leader who resisted Mexican and American expansion in the Southwest in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The majority of the photographs in the collection were taken by David Francis Barry, with Orlando Scott Goff and George W. Scott also contributing.
Collection:Ellen Lehman Native American Photograph Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.16)
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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English | Delaware | Powhatan | Susquehannock | Quiripi | Mohegan-Pequot | Carolina Algonquian | Dutch | Swedish
Date:1859-1860
Contributor:Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862
Subject:Linguistics | Geography | Place names | Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History | Delaware--History | Maryland--History | New York (State)--History | North Carolina--History | Virginia--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Dictionaries | Maps | Place names
Extent:1 dictionary (820 p.); 8 maps
Description: A completed dictionary, based on various printed authorities (Zeisberger, Heckewelder, etc.). Contains a separate dictionary of place names organized by states. Maps of portions of Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and New York. Maps beyond Lenape territory may contain Powhatan, Susquehannock, Mohegan-Pequot, Quiripi-Unquachaog, Carolina Algonquian, and Pamlico place names.
Collection:English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (Mss.497.33.H39)
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Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks
Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English
Date:1935-1937
Contributor:Singer, Ernestine H. Wieder
Subject:Anthropology | Archaeology | Economic conditions | Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:2 volumes, 150 p.
Description: These items include notes on "primitive economics" (Incan) for A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (on Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (on problems of the Clovis site in New Mexico), and others at the University of Pennsylvania. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association of papers by various anthropologists in attendance, including Ruth Benedict, Frederica de Laguna, Waiter Dyk, William N. Fenton, Alfred V. Kidder, David G. Mandelbaum, George P. Murdock, Arthur C. Parker, Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys A. Reichard, William A. Ritchie, Linton Satterthwaite, Gene Weltfish, and others regarding Cree, Flathead, Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Kaingang (Southern Brazil), Kiowa, Mayan, Natchez, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Pueblos, Sahaptin, Saulteaux, Siouan, Tarascan, Tonawanda (Seneca), Zuni, etc.
Collection:Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes (Mss.970.1.Si6)
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Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:circa 1887
Subject:Moravians | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Extent:46 pages
Description: This item was John W. Jordan's copy of Moravian missionary David Zeisberger's "Essay of an Onondaga grammar…", which Jordan edited and published in four parts in multiple issues of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography in 1888. Originally interleaved with letters from: William N. Beauchamp, Eben N. Horsford, Isaac Craig, Horatio Hale, De Cost Smith, Daniel G. Brinton, and Albert Cusiek.
Collection:Essay of an Onondaga grammar; or A short introduction to learn the Onondaga al. Maqua tongue / [edited by John W. Jordan] (Mss.497.3.Z3e.c2)
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Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1767
Subject:Trade | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents
Extent:1 volume, 16 p.
Description: The full title of this manuscript is "Estimate of the Fur and Peltry Trade in the District of Michilimackinac, according to the bounds and limits, assign'd to it by the French, when under their government: together with an account of the situation and names of the several out-posts." Robert Rogers was commander of Fort Michilimackinac from 1766-1768. Rogers gave this manuscript to Jonathan Carver (the man he has sent on an expedition to find the Northwest Passage), who relayed it to Thomas Barton of Lancaster, Pa., who, in turn, sent it to the American Philosophical Society. It was received at the APS and referred to the Committee on Trade and Commerce on December 20, 1768. The manuscript may be the first separate manuscript collected by the American Philosophical Society.
Collection:Estimate of the Fur and Peltry Trade in the District of Michilimackinac (Mss.970.1.R63)
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Language:Lushootseed | Twana | Chehalis, Upper | English
Date:ca. 1935-1936, n.d.
Contributor:Aginsky, Ethel G. (Ethel Gertrude), 1910-1990 | Adams, Mary | Allen, Henry | Hawk, Emily | James, Annie | James, Anthony | Sherwood, Nancy | Sherwood, Kimball | Sparr, Joseph | Wilbur, Annie | Wilbur, Jimmy | Wilbur, Willy | Wilbur, Willy, Mrs. | Williams, Marcel
Subject:Linguistics | Genealogy | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Classroom notes | Oral histories | Stories | Conversations | Elicitation sessions
Extent:13 notebooks
Description: 13 notebooks recorded by Ethel Aginsky. The first 11 notebooks document Aginsky's research with mostly Puyallup people between November 1935 and January 1936. Puyallup (Washington) is the only location identified - the location is thought to be Tacoma. Consultants include: Mary Adams, Henry Allen, Emily Hawk, Annie James, Anthony James, Nancy Sherwood, Kimball Sherwood, Joseph Sparr, Annie Wilbur, Jimmy (or Jimmie) Wilbur, Willy Wilbur, Mrs. Willy Wilbur, and Marcel Williams. The notebooks include texts (histories, conversations, etc.) and wordlists. In addition to Lushootseed, there is Chehalis and Twana language identified, and one text in notebook 10 is of Klallam cultural origin (but in Lushootseed). Notebooks 12-13 are Aginsky's unrelated classroom notes.
Collection:Ethel Aginsky Notebooks Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.127)
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Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1974
Contributor:Campisi, Jack
Subject:Anthropology | Warfare | Trade | Economic conditions | Kinship | Religion | Government relations | Land tenure | Politics and government | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Diplomacy | New York (State)--History | Wisconsin--History | Wisconsin--History | Migration | Marriage customs and rites
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations
Extent:520 pages
Description: This dissertation by anthropologist Jack Campisi was submitted to the State University of New York at Albany in 1974. The author organized the dissertation into chapters on methodology; war, trade, and change in Oneida society, 1600 to 1810; culture and history of the Wisconsin Oneidas; contemporary society of the Oneidas of Wisconsin; history and culture of the Oneida of the Thames; conflict and division in Oneida society, 1900-1934; contemporary society of the Oneidas of the Thames; the Oneidas of New York, 1840-present; and a conclusion with various approaches to comparing the ecologies, kinship systems, belief systems, political systems, and intra- and inter-tribal relations of the three communities as Campisi seeks to assess the evolving identities and ability to perform "boundary maintence" of each Oneida community. Campisi was a recipient of an APS Phillips Fund grant, and donated this item to the Society.
Collection:Ethnic identity and boundary maintenance in three Oneida communities (Mss.970.3.C15e)