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Language:English
Date:1835-1848
Contributor:Lee, Jason, 1803-1845 | Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subject:Missions | Methodists | Oregon--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 reel
Description: Letters, principally of Rev. Jason Lee to Dr. Nathan Bangs, pertaining to the conduct of the Methodist Mission at Willamette, Oregon, for Flat Head [Salishan or Chinookan peoples], Kalapooya [Kalapuya], and other Indians (the Oregon Mission of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church). From originals held by the Board of Missions, Methodist Church, Philadelphia.
Collection:Documents relating to the Oregon Mission, 1835-1848 (Mss.Film.889)
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Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1789; 1794
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Ohio--History | Warfare | Land tenure | Land claims | Missions | Moravians | Surveying
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two letters of Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder concerning Native Americans. From originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society. A 4-page 1789 letter to an unknown recipient concerns the danger of surveying Moravian Indian lands on the Muskingum River due to threats from Indians, particularly Miamis, and mentions Zeisberger. A 2-page 1794 letter to Timothy Pickering contains information from David Zeisberger concerning Indian affairs; according to Zeisberger and [Gottlob] Senseman, Native peoples (especially Five Nations) at Thames River desire peace.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and papers, 1789-1796 (Mss.Film.805.2)
Language:English
Date:September 20, 1763
Contributor:Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Land claims | Government relations | Land tenure | Surveying
Type:Text
Extent:2 pages
Description: Proposals for a lasting peace with the Indians. Original in Linnean Society of London. Suggests appointment of a surveyor to determine true boundaries, and the ejection of squatters by force from Indian lands.
Collection:Peter Collinson papers (Mss.Film.629)
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Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1777-1788
Contributor:Hand, Edward, 1744-1802
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: One microfilm reel of the papers of the Lancaster physician, Edward Hand, for the years 1777-1788. Hand was active in organizing the Lancaster County Associators and was promoted in 1777 to the rank of brigadier general. He was dispatched to Western Pennsylvania to mobilize the militia against Native peoples and Tories. Late in 1778, he assumed command at Albany and aided Sullivan’s Campaign against the Haudenosaunee in 1779. The extent of letters in this collection pertaining to his military activities against Native peoples has not yet been determined. Originals are in the Pennsylvania State Archives.
Collection:Edward Hand papers (Mss.DLAR.Film.705)
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K’áshogot’ıné includes: Hare
Language:English | Slavey, North
Date:1961
Contributor:Hara, Hiroko, 1934-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Dene languages | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: This item consists of 4 field notebooks (109 pages) of Hiroko Sue Hara. The notebooks contain primarily linguistic notes, principally also a 43-page vocabulary, organized by ethnographic categories such as animals, fish, clothing, tools, etc.; 36 pages of phrases and vocabulary notes; and a slip file. This material is related to Recording 38, reels 1-6. Originals in possession of Hiroko Sue Hara.
Collection:Field notes of the Hare Indians, 1961 (Mss.Film.1115)
Date:1949-1960
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | McClellan, Catharine
Subject:Alaska--History | Archaeology | Botany | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Interviews | Microfilms | Sketches
Extent:6 reels
Description: These field notes, compiled by de Laguna and Catherine McClellan, include archaeological investigations, transcripts of interviews with community members and sketches. Tlingit material recorded at Yakutat, Angoon, Carcross, and Teslin, with small amount at Atlin; Ahtna material recorded at Chitina, Copper Center, and Chistochina.
Collection:Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna (Mss.Film.1127)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1885-1909
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | British Columbia--History | Northwest Territories--History | Nunavut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: This correspondence refers to Franz Boas' trips to Baffin Island (Nunavut, formerly the Northwest Territories) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected materials on Northwest Coast languages among the Aleut. From originals in possession of the Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Donor, Smithsonian Institution, April 1967.
Collection:Franz Boas correspondence, 1885-1909 (Mss.Film.372.3)
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Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:Undated
Contributor:Williams, Eleazar, 1688-1742
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Kinship | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Grammars
Extent:1 reel
Description: This grammar includes the Mohawk alphabet, phonetics, conjugation of parts of speech, numbers, and kinship classification. Notes dialect differences. From originals in the Missouri Historical Society.
Collection:Grammar of the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquois language (Mss.Film.578)
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Language:English
Date:1795
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Subject:Missions | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Government relations | Brotherton Indians | New England--History | Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Correspondence | Censuses
Extent:142 pages
Description: Materials compiled by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson. Titled "Negotiations with the Indians of Pennsylvania by the Society of Friends to 1795," this assemblage contains a census of Native groups; miscellaneous information about various Native peoples; a verbatim collection of previous speeches and messages to and from various Native groups; letters from Timothy Pickering, Jasper Parrish [or Parish], and Isadore Chapin; and a discussion of various Iroquoian, Stockbridge, Brotherton, etc., peoples. Mention of Connediu (Handsome Lake). Original in possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection:Halliday Jackson journal, 1814 (Mss.Film.631b)
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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)