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Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:January 22, 1737
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751
Subject:Diplomacy | Virginia--History | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Conrad Weiser regarding letters from Governor William Gooch of Virginia regarding persuading Cherokees to meet with the Haudenosaunee. Weiser should help get them to agree to meet.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1792-1796
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Nomenclature | Birds | Diseases | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Cherokees. Letter to Thomas Pennant, sending specimens of birds called Onacloneita by visiting Cherokee Indians; and letter to John G. E. Heckewelder, inquiring whether any Indians ever have a sickly white color or white spots on them and mentioning Cherokee belief that their ancestors found a race of "develish white-people" when they came to the area then inhabited. [From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Date:1960s-2000s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Masthay, Carl | Munro, Pamela | Walker, Willard | Spade, Watt
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected a small number of books on Cherokee language and culture, including a copy of the Cherokee Advocate newspaper (Series 2), as well as corresponding with Carl Masthay on Cherokee place names and with Pamela Munro on Cherokee linguistic analysis (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:June 3, 1800
Contributor:Pike, Zebulon Montgomery, 1779-1813
Subject:Slavery | African Americans | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to David Henley. Original in Chicago Historical Society. Asks what to do with some slaves who have escaped from Cherokee Indians who killed their master. Mentions Indian named White Killer.
Collection:Zebulon Montgomery Pike biographical materials (Mss.B.P63)
Culture:
Date:1928, 1936, 1943
Contributor:West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Carving | Dance | Health | Medicine | Rites and ceremonies | North Carolina--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: Part of the papers of Will West Long, Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina, in hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; also pages in English relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. This material is restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Cherokee medicinal and magical texts (Mss.497.3.C425)
Culture:
Language:Cherokee
Date:1901-1904
Subject:Economics
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: A ledger book written entirely in the Cherokee syllabary. In the original cataloging, it was described as a ledger book for a gadugi group. This description may be inaccurate, as it consists of entries indicating people putting money into a community fund or bank, who borrowed how much, collateral offered, etc. Clear indication of location where it was written is not given. Identification as "Cherokee Nation record book" may have been provided by Raymond Fogelson, who deposited it at APS in 1960, or by a cataloger.
Collection:Cherokee Nation record book (Mss.497.3.C41)
Culture:
Language:Cherokee
Date:1980
Contributor:Jumper, Ollie | George, Goliath | Huff, Charles T.
Subject:Folklore | North Carolina--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories
Extent:2 sound tape reels (27 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Four Cherokee stories recorded by Charles Huff at Cherokee, North Carolina in June 1980. Three stories--"The Possum's Tail," "The Possum and the Wolves," and "Rabbit and the Bear"--given by Ollie Jumper. One unidentified story given by Goliath George. (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:Cherokee Texts (Mss.Rec.115)
Date:1972
Contributor:Pulte, William John, 1941-
Subject:Linguistics | Muskogean languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of a letter from William (Bill) Pulte regarding his graduate work on the Chickasaw and Cherokee languages enclosing a paper titled "The Position of Chickasaw in Western Muskogean."
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Language:English
Date:March 24, 1837
Contributor:Troost, Gerard, 1776-1850
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Mounds | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Sends drawings of heads, one of an ancient tribe, flattened at back of head, from mound at junction of French-Broad and Holston rivers. Other from bank of Cumberland river above Nashville, probably of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Choctaw nations said to visit here. They seem much alike in their living form to Troost.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Unkechaug includes: Unquachog
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Language:Algonquin | Delaware | Unami | Munsee | Nanticoke | Ojibwe | Cree | Shawnee | Mahican | Quiripi | Oneida | Cayuga | Onondaga | Miami-Illinois | Cherokee | Chickasaw | Choctaw | Muscogee | Tuscarora | Chitimacha
Date:n.d., 1792-1808?; 1802-1808
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: 4 pages of words from Jefferson's standard form, with equivalents in Mohiccon and three other languages numbered as 1, 6, 7 (Mohiccon), and 8. A comparative vocabulary of 22 languages, arranged tabularly to follow Jefferson's standard printed vocabulary form. Languages include Delaware, Unami, Monsi, Chippewa, Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Tawa, Shawanee, Nanticoke, Mohiccon, Unkechaug, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Miami, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Tuscarora, Chetimacha, and Atacapa.
Collection:Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (Mss.497.J35)