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Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Atikamekw includes: Têtes-de-Boules, Têtes de Boules, Tete de Boule
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English | Abenaki, Western | French | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1914-1930
Contributor:Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Day, Gordon M. | Laurent, Bernedette | Masta, Henry Lorne | Nolet, Beatrice | Obomsawin, Louis Napoleon | Panadis, Theophile | Reynolds, Beatrice | Ritzenthaler, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1911-1980 | Watso, William
Subject:Dance | Architecture | Ethnography | Clothing and dress | Hunting | Psychology | Agriculture | Animals | Personal names | Kinship | Music | Botany | Material culture | Folklore | Medicine | Religion | Genealogy | Economics | Linguistics | Québec (Province)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Maps | Notes | Rorschach tests | Vocabularies | Drawings | Bibliographies | Biographies | Stories
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: The Abenaki materials in the Hallowell Papers are mostly located in Series V, Research Files, in folders labled "Abenaki" and Series VI, Photographs, Subseries E "St. Francis Abenaki Album." These include linguistic, ethnographic, ethnobotanical, ceremonial knowledge, information on political organization, and historical materials. Of particular interest are a sketch of Abenaki history from 1600-1930 accompanied by detailed notes from secondary sources on 17th century Abenaki history. The linguistic materials include an analysis of how the language changed after contact with Catholic missionaries, Abenaki vocabulary related to body parts, Abenaki phonetics, and religious, medical, and kinship terminology. The ethnobotanical materials include a manuscript labled "Identity of animals and plants," and information concerning herbal medicine and its practitioners. There is a wealth of ethnographic materials that include drawings of pipes, descriptions of games, basketry and birch bark mats. There are descriptions of Abenaki music and diagrams of dances, as well as detailed descriptions of hunting techniques. Some of the genealogical materials contain lists of community members names and descriptions of marriage. Interspersed throughout the folders labled "Abenaki" in the Research Files are interlinear translations of stories such as "Man who could Find Lost Objects," "Woman and Bear Lover" and numerous other stories. The materials on hunting include topics such as the use of snow shoes, preparation of moose hide, and techniques and drawings of trapping. The collections contain important information designation hunting territories and family names. Four folders contain detailed informaiton on kinship terms. Two folders on Measurements and Genealogical data contain lists of names. The folders labled "Linguistics" in Series V contain scattered information about Abenaki grammar. In Series VI, of 160 photographs taken at St. Francis, Odanak in the Centre-du-Québec region. The Abenaki people in the photographs are identified, in most cases, and also include depictions of traditional dress, buildings, clothing, baskets, and a wide variety of material culture. The correspondence, in Series I, includes letters from Théophile Panadis; Gordon Day describing his collection of stories, recordings, vocabularies, and hunting territories. Henry Lorne Masta, one of Hallowell's Abenaki consultants, writes about culture and language. Additional correspondents may contain other Abenaki-related information.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Language:French | Abenaki, Eastern | Abenaki, Western
Date:circa 1756-1760 and undated
Contributor:Aubéry, Joseph, 1673-1755
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Catechisms | Canticles | Hymns | Grammars
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These three items concern the Abenaki language and include linguistic and religious materials in French and Abenaki, including catechisms, hymns, canticles, parts of speech, etc. Originals in the archives of the Séminaire de Québec at the Université Laval [formerly the Séminaire de Québec] and the Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1661-1819 and undated
Contributor:Depéret, Élie, 1691-1757 | Chaumonot, Pierre Joseph Marie, 1611-1693 | Mathevet, Jean Claude, 1717-1781 | Cuoq, J. A. (Jean André), 1821-1898 | Gay (Guay), Robert-Michel, 1663-1725 | Quéré de Tréguron, Maurice, 1663-1754 | Guichart, Vincent-Fleuri, 1729-1793
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Hymns | Translations
Extent:10 items
Description: These manuscripts include dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, prayers, canticles, hymns, and Bible tales prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Algonquin, the Nipissing dialect of Algonquin, and some Iroquoian languages. From originals at the Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Date:1637-1847
Contributor:Vaultier, Peter | Crespieul, François de, 1639-1702 | Cuoq, J. A. (Jean André), 1821-1898 | Laure, Pierre-Michel, 1688-1738
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Sulpicians | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Catechisms | Hymns | Prayers | Correspondence | Canticles | Records
Extent:8 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France, although Cuoq was Sulpician. These eight items primarly concern the Algonquin language and include linguistic and religious materials in French, Latin, and Algonquin such as prayers, hymns, canticles, music, catechisms, etc. A few items incorporate some Abenaki, Inuit, and Innu language material as well. There is also the 125-page Registre de Sillery 1637 a 1690 containing Native baptismal and confirmation records. Originals in the archives of the Séminaire de Québec at the Université Laval [formerly the Séminaire de Québec] and the Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Language:French | Chinook | Chinook Jargon
Date:Undated
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Penutian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Hymns | Translations
Extent:3 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This item, by an unknown author, contains hymns in French and Chinook (unidentified Chinookan language and/or Chinook Jargon). Includes a comment of Charles Marius Barbeau: "Probablement de la Cote Nord-Ouest. Il semble avoir des mots du jargon chinook; potlatch, makumak. Peut-etre des missionaires Demers et Blanchet." Original in Universite Laval. Seminaire de Quebec, Archives, Polygraphie XIX no. 38.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | French
Date:1802
Contributor:Duralde, Martin
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as Item 11: Martin Duralde's "Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas," which includes commentary on Chitimacha religion.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Dene Thá includes: Slave, Slavey
Language:French | Slavey, South
Date:1930
Contributor:Gouy, Père Edouard
Subject:Linguistics | Dene languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Translations
Extent:192 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This particular item is a French-Slavey dictionary attributed to Father Edouard Gouy. This dictionary was mimeographed in 15 copies in 1931. From original in possession of Angus Sherwood, Norman Wells, North West Territories, Canada.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:French | Iroquoian (macrolanguage) | Algonquin | Algonquian | Mohawk
Date:1768-1879 and undated
Contributor:Guichart, Vincent-Fleuri, 1729-1793 | Marcoux, Joseph, 1791-1855 | Plessis, Joseph Octave, 1763-1825
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Translations
Extent:5 items
Description: These manuscripts include dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, prayers, canticles, Bible tales and religious instructions prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. From originals at the Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1755; 1847
Contributor:De Lorimier, Jean-Baptiste, 1786-1845
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include an unattributed 1847 letter, in French, on the etymology of some Personal names; a word list obtained at Sault St. Louis, with a note on provenance, attributed to de Lorimier, possibly the French-Haudenosaunee interpreter and agent Jean-Baptiste de Lorimier or one of his relations; and the 1755 "Livre des prieres, cantiques, et himnes en langue hyroquois telles qu'on se sont maintenant a la Mission du Lac des Deux Montagnes," containing various notes added to an original manuscript on plain chant, carols, articles preliminary to the peace of Versailles in 1783, description of a serpent killed at Chateau Ste. Anne, recipes, remedies, etc. Originals in Laval University, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Language:English | French | Naskapi | Innu-aimun
Date:circa 1690-1774
Contributor:Laure, Pierre-Michel, 1688-1738 | Faber, Bonaventura
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Prayers | Dictionaries | Baptismal records | Marriage registers | Birth registers | Death registers | Church records
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include a copy of a Montagnais dictionary attributed to Father Bonaventura Faber (or Favre) circa 1690; Montagnais prayers attributed to Father Pierre-Michel (or Petro) Laure, containing also a fragment of a letter dated 1724 noting "this is the third year that I live with the Tad8ssaciens," and denouncing the honesty and truthfulness of the Indians; and a register of baptisms, marriages, and deaths at La Mission du Domain du Roy from 1759 to 1774. Native peoples mentioned in the latter include Chicoutimi, Tadussaks, Mille Vaches, and Montagnais. Originals in the Archives de l'Archiveche de Quebec, Bibliotheque de l'Archeveche de Quebec, and Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)