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Date:1969
Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Eagle, Annie Crows Heart | Otter Sage, Mrs. | Stevenson, Rufus
Subject:Folklore | Medicine | North Dakota--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories
Extent:19 sound tape reels (155 hr., 29 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Primarily consists of autobiographical stories, creation stories, and medicine stories collected by Alfred W. Bowers in earlier decades. The stories are read in segments in Bowers' English translation to two native consultants, who then translate the material into both Mandan and Hidatsa, or occasionally into either Mandan or Hidatsa alone. A small number of stories are told in Mandan only. Also includes English discussions of the Mandan and Hidatsa domestic life, material culture, personal reminscences, and histories of the Crow-Flies-High Band and the Fort Buford and Fort Berthold settlements. Bowers' original table of contents also available. Recorded at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, in 1969. (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:Mandan-Hidatsa Ethnohistory and Linguistics (Mss.Rec.81)
Culture:
Mandan includes: Nueta
Date:1936; 1933-1934
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | North Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:472 pages
Description: The Mandan materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Mandan" section of the finding aid. Kennard's "Mandan folkloristic texts" (item X6.1) contain 28 text with free and interlinear translations. Boas' "Mandan word list" (item X6.2) consists of lexical items with English equivalents arranged by stem, with reference numbers to texts of Edward A. Kennard.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Mandan includes: Nueta
Date:1968-1972, 1997
Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Hollow, Robert C. | Powers, William K. | Williams, Randy H.
Subject:Linguistics | North Dakota--History | Trade
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:711 pages
Description: The Mandan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bowers, Hollow, Powers, and Williams.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:Cree, Plains | English | French | Michif
Date:1983
Contributor:Weston, Lori Orser
Subject:Linguistics | North Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:18 pages
Description: The MIchif materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Weston: Report on fieldwork on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, North Dakota, with the aim of identifying when Michif emerged as a mix language from French and Plains Cree, comparing Cree and Michif verbs, establish its status as a mixed language, and conduct documentation, including texts. Sample worksheets and data are provided.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Oceti Sakowin includes: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Sioux
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:Dakota | English | Lakota | Stoney | Assiniboine
Date:1968
Contributor:Eashappie, Albert | Good Bear, Henry | Joshua, Florence | Harbeck, Warren A. | House, Jacob | Pratt, Donald
Subject:Linguistics | Saskatchewan--History | Alberta--History | Manitoba--History | South Dakota--History | North Dakota--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories | Autobiographies
Extent:1 sound tape reel (12 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Five short texts recorded to conducted a mutual intelligibility study of Siouan languages. The speakers of the stories are from Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Sintaluta, Saskatchewan; Fort Totten, North Dakota; Griswold, Manitoba; and Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. This recording is the basis for Harbeck's report, "A Study in Mutual Intelligibility and Linguistic Separation Among Five Siouan Languages" (37 pages) (Mss.497.3.Am4). (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:Siouan texts: mutual intelligibility survey (Mss.Rec.71)