Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The A'aninin materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item, listed under "Merriot, Ivy": "White Clay (Aaniih) interviews", recorded in Montana.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages

Culture:

Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Shawnee

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Quapaw includes: Arkansas, Ugahxpa

Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Omaha includes: Umoⁿhoⁿ

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Mohegan

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Nanticoke

Natchez

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Kaw includes: Kansa, Kanza

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Aaniiih includes: A'aninin, Atsina, Gros Ventre

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Date:1798-1821

Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Siouan languages | Muskogean languages

Type:Text

Genre:Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies

Extent:219 pages

Description: This volume contains extracts of Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau. The bulk of the volume is comprised of word list of 54 words with equivalents listed in a range of 50-70 languages. While Barton listed no authority, Du Ponceau cited sources. Languages with words listed include Chitimacha, Atakapa, Cherokee, Osage, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Nottoway, Kansa, Omaha, Dakota, Pawnee, Nanticoke, Gros Ventres, Miami, Mi'kmaq, Seminole, Quapaw, Yuchi, Delaware, Ojibwe, Shawnee, Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora, Natches, Wyandot, Creek, Mahican, Mohegan, and many others. The word list includes the terms for God, heaven, and sky, as well as various terms relating to kinship, parts of the body, weather, and more. The volume also includes notes on sounds of the Otomi (Othomi) observations on declension; observations about the Omaha, Kansa, Oto, Arkansas, and Missouri languages; and notes on symbol and sound. Also includes a newspaper clipping of a review (in German) of Barton's "New Views" that appeared in "Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799.

Collection:A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages (Mss.497.B28)

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A general description of the sea-coasts, harbours, lakes, rivers, etc. of the province of West Florida

Culture:

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Language:English

Date:1769

Contributor:Gauld, George

Subject:Geography | Trade

Type:Text

Genre:Essays

Extent:1 volume

Description: Admiralty surveyor. Mentions southern tribes and Indian trade.

Collection:A general description of the sea-coasts, harbours, lakes, rivers, etc. of the province of West Florida (Mss.917.59.G23)

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A New England pioneer among the Oneida Indians, 1926

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English

Date:1926

Contributor:Dean, James, 1748-1823 | Deane, S. N. (Sidney Norton), 1878-1943

Subject:Folklore | Indian captivities | Missions | Religion

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Lectures | Microfilms

Extent:1 reel

Description: Read before the Northampton Historical Society on January 28, 1926, this typescript essay presents the life of a man who was raised by Oneida Indians, missionary and interpreter James Dean (1748-1823) of Westmoreland, New York. It contains a version of the Oneida creation myth. Original in possession of Benjamin D. Meritt, Princeton, N.J.

Collection:A New England pioneer among the Oneida Indians, 1926 (Mss.Film.1101)

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A Survey of the Beaver Dialects With Respect to Tone Marking

Culture:

Dane-Zaa includes: Tsattine, Beaver, ᑕᓀᖚ, Dunne-za

Language:Dane-Zaa (ᑕᓀᖚ ᖚᗀᐥ) | English

Date:2002

Contributor:Apsassin, May | Acko, Annie | Oker, Madeline | Wolf, Lana | Miller, Julia Colleen

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies

Extent:5 compact discs (1 hr., 15 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Recordings of 5 speakers of Tsattine (Beaver) reading a word list to test for tone and dialect differences. Recorded in Doig River and Blueberry River, British Columbia, in July 2002. (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:A Survey of the Beaver Dialects With Respect to Tone Marking (Mss.Rec.284)

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A topographic memoir on East and West Florida, 1818

Culture:

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Language:English

Date:1818

Contributor:Young, Hugh, -1822

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Memoirs | Itineraries | Travel narratives

Extent:125 pages

Description: Hugh Young was an army officer and topographical engineer accompanying General Andrew Jackson's army in its operations against the Seminoles. This memoir includes sections on East Florida's boundaries, physical characteristics, navigation, Native customs, Spanish settlements, African Americans, agricultural products, and climate. Also included are itineraries for East and West Florida. One chapter is devoted to the Seminole and other aboriginal inhabitants of Florida, and includes names, numbers, settlements, war and treaties, councils, marriage, trade, amusement, etc. (pages 48-73). Printed, Boyd (1934). Original document owned by Francis W. Rawle, Albany, circa 1954. Also found on this reel is Benjamin Hawkins' Journal of occurrences in the Creek agency from January to the conclusion of the conference and treaty at Fort Williamson, 1802 (Film 692a).

Collection:A topographic memoir on East and West Florida, 1818 (Mss.Film.692b)

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A vocabulary in the Mingo tongue taken from the mouth of William Sack, a Canistogo Indian. . . and memorandum book

Culture:

Susquehannock includes: Conestoga

Mingo

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Susquehannock | Tuscarora | Mohawk | Seneca

Date:1757, 1764-1771

Contributor:Sack, William | Tāyāhaōndeate ("Indian Peter")

Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Linguistics | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Trade

Type:Text

Genre:Notebooks | Vocabularies

Extent:1 vol., 8 p. (vocabulary); 58 p. (memorandum book)

Description: Notebook with memorandum book, Fort Augusta, 1757-1771. Reference is made to Edward Shippen, Jr.; includes 6 pages of vocabulary identified as "Mingo", which may be Susquehannock or Seneca, then 1 page each of Tuscarora and Mohawk numerals; all copied in Indian vocabularies (Mss.497.In2). Memorandum book carries list of obligations, November 1764 - May 4, 1771. The vocabulary was taken from William Sack, a Conestoga Indian, in January 1757 at Fort Augusta in the midst of the Seven Years' War. Sack would later become a controversial figure in Pennsylvania history. The Paxton Boys claimed he was a murderer and used his presence in the Conestoga's camp as pretext for their assault on the Conestoga Indians. The manuscript then changes to the financial transactions of an unknown individual running from 1764 to 1771, although some evidence suggests that Edward Burd kept this memorandum book and vocabulary. This section runs 58 pages. It does not appear to containing any information on Indigenous languages, but may potentially contain information relevant to research Indigenous and settler interactions during this period.

Collection:A vocabulary in the Mingo tongue taken from the mouth of William Sack, a Canistogo Indian. . . and memorandum book (Mss.497.3.V852m)

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A vocabulary of the most common words in use among the Sac and Fox Indians, n.d.

Culture:

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Language:English | Meskwaki

Date:Undated

Contributor:Unknown

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Vocabularies

Extent:27 pages

Description: This volume contains Sac [Sauk] and Fox words with their English equivalents. It likely dates to the nineteenth century. One of the more notable features of this collection is that it includes words for relatively recent inventions, such as the steam boat. A note inside the back cover states "C.S.F. to Mrs. S.," asking her to excuse the "erroz in Spelling They are not mind (sic.). written on the night of my return from a memorable Expedition."

Collection:A vocabulary of the most common words in use among the Sac & Fox Indians, n.d. (Mss.497.F11)

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A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection

Culture:

Ute

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘

Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks

Ponca

Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Cherokee

Cheyenne

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Language:English

Date:1852-1869

Contributor:Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Photographs

Extent:0.5 linear feet, 96 photographs

Description: Artist Antonio Zeno Shindler worked at the Smithsonian Institution from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century, specializing in ethnographic subjects. He was responsible for printing or taking a large number of photographs of American Indians exhibited there in 1869. The 95 studio portraits in the Shindler Collection were part of a suite of 301 images that comprised the first photographic exhibition at the Smithsonian, and that are documented in the catalogue Photographic Portraits of North American Indians in the Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (1867). The individuals depicted were members of delegations sent to Washington during the years 1852, 1857-1858, and 1867-1869 from the following nations: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Choctaw, Dakota Sioux (Brule, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Santee, Sisseton, Two-Kettle, Yankton), Osage, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox, Seminole, and Ute. Shindler printed the earlier photographs (mostly taken by the McClees Gallery) and was photographer for the later delegations. See the finding aid for more information. All of the photographs in this collection have been digitized and are in the APS Digital Library.

Collection:A. Zeno Shindler American Indian Photograph Collection (Mss.970.1.Sh6)