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Language:English
Date:August 4, 1748
Contributor:Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Warfare | Diplomacy | Treaties | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748 | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Richard Peters reporting that Shawnees and praying Indians have helped kill some whites. Discusses negotiations with 55 Indians at Lancaster.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
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Language:English
Date:August 14, 1780
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Missions | Moravians | Warfare | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder to Daniel Brodhead concerning Shawnee Indians and the war. From original at Harvard University.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and papers, 1789-1796 (Mss.Film.805.2)
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Language:English
Date:January 11, 1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Tecumseh, 1768-1813 | Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet
Subject:Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Will send copy of his Narrative to Du Ponceau. Regarding his German edition. Data on the Prophet and Tecumseh.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
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Language:German
Date:May 14, 1806
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Witchcraft | Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet | Religion | Moravians | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Photocopy of letter to Johanna Maria (Polly) Heckewelder. Original in Darlington Library, University of Pittsburgh. Mentions Shawano [Shawnee] Indian witchcraft proceedings, burning of Indian Tetepackki and one Joshua and his two sisters. Mentions Hackingponiskam and Indian girl Caritas.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder papers (Mss.B.H35)
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Date:1934-1978
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Davis, Inez | Tiger, Benjamin | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Original Shawnee materials in the Mary Haas collection focus around her fieldwork in Oklahoma in the 1930s, with Inez Davis, captured in a field notebook in Series 2. There is also correspondence with both Carl and Erminie Voegelin (Series 1), and many short (around 2-50 cards) lexica and notes on historical linguistics, mostly within Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Date:1964, 1972, 1993-1995
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Schutz, Noel W., Jr.
Subject:Dance | Linguistics | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:315 pages
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Norcross, Roark-Calnek, and Schutz.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Language:English
Date:1708-1754
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | Newcheconner | Thomas, George, 1695?-1774 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Tostee, Peter | Dinnen, James
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Mines and mineral resources | Diplomacy | Warfare | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Depositions | Reports
Extent:8 items
Description: Six letters regarding a mine Indians have discovered and are working; Shawnees "performing business" for Colonel Evans; Shawnees allegedly guilty of murdering colonists and Logan's efforts to treat with Newcheconner about it; Newcheconner's instistence on Shawnee innocence in the matter; a pass for Shikellamy to come to Philadelphia. A 1754 deposition by George Croghan and two other traders complaining that they were robbed and detained by pro-French Shawnees led by Peter Chartier at Shawneetown on the Allegany, and that their (enslaved?) African American servant was set free. A 1737 report by George Miranda titled "A true account of all the men in the three towns in Allegania of the Shawnese nation, " containing names and total population figures for French Town, Peter Chartier Town, Kiscomonetta's Town.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
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Language:English
Date:n.d.; July 7, 1756; July 10, 1756
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Kolapecka | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Paxinos
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: In sections 2:517 and 1:199. Concerning friendship; trip to Philadelphia. Four Indians have arrived, including son of Paxino (Paksino). Manuscript note on back by John G. E. Heckewelder. Encloses governor's letter and Horsfield's speech to Indians intended for the four visiting Indians at Bethlehem, and states his intentions about provisions and ammunition for them. Contains short note by John G. E. Heckewelder, identifying one as Kolopacka, son of Paxino.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
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Language:English
Date:1936, 1953, 1958
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Dance | Ohio--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Fenton papers can be found in several sections. Series I includes correspondence with Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin. In Series III, see papers by Wheeler-Voegelin and Anthony F. C. Wallace.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
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Date:1995
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932-
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright had a copy of Bruce L. Pearson's (ed.) Shawnee Language Dictionary from 1995.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)