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Date:1950s
Contributor:Ellis, C. D. (Clarence Douglas), 1923- | Tailfeathers, Shirley
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories
Extent:2 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Blackfoot materials in the Ilse Lehiste Papers consist of one audio recording of a story recorded at Blood Indian Reserve in Alberta, told by Shirley Tailfeathers. (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:Ilse Lehiste papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.62)
Culture:
Language:English | Cree | Innu-aimun
Date:1911-1931, 1936, 1938-1948
Contributor:Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909- | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Schaeffer, Claude E. | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wallace, Paul A. W.
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Museum specimens | Québec (Province)--History | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Photographs | Pictographs
Extent:6+ folders; 60+ photographs; 1 film
Description: The Cree material in the Frank Speck papers are scattered around multiple sections of the finding aid, mostly in Subcollection I, Series I. In this series, see item II(2A5), containing correspondence from P.G. Downes to Speck regarding Cree in Quebec. See item II(2F3), which includes notes from A. irving Hallowell to Speck regarding field work visiting Sweet Grass Cree, mentioning attitude of Cree to Leonard Bloomfield. Item II(4B9c) contains Speck's field notes on the Mistassini band, including notes on relationship between Cree and Montagnais languages, as well as museum specimens. Item II(2G1) includes Naskapi names in Cree syllabary; the Lord's Prayer in Cree; miscellaneous syllabary Cree words, and images of 79 pictographs. In Subcollection I, Series II, see correspondence with Claude Schaeffer regarding Rocky Boy Cree, and correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace regarding Cree tales (Wissakutchek) collected by Edward Ahenakew in Alberta. In Subcollection I, Series III, there are 4 "Cree" photograph folders containing approximately 60 photographs. See also "Naskapi films," located in Subcollection II, Series IV, Photographs and Video, which includes some footage of some Cree people.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Language:English | Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ)
Date:1928-1982
Contributor:Li, Fanggui | Mandeville, François | Ferrier, Baptiste | Thompson, Laurence C. | Thompson, M. Terry
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Dene languages | Folklore | Alberta--History | California--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Vocabularies | Transcriptions | Stories | Interviews | Oral histories
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: The heart of the Fanggui Li Collection is comprised of ten notebooks kept by the linguist Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li relating to his research on the Denesuline "Chipewyan" language in 1928. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from François Mandeville in Denesuline, and, in one instance, Baptiste Ferrier) in July 1928, with interlinear English translations. The topics of these stories include myths, folklore, and tribal history as well as activities like fishing, tanning a moose hide, or making a canoe. The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for Denesuline language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concerning Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics. Interview topics include Li's early education, experience at the University of Chicago, Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir's influence on his course of study, Li's fieldwork on the Mattole language in Northern California in the late 1920s, discrimination against Chinese in that region at that time, Li's work with Sapir on the Hupa reservation, and various aspects of linguistic methodology of the times, including recording with wax cylinders. See the finding aid for more information, including more details on the contents of each notebook and the two audio cassettes, and for related material.
Collection:Fanggui Li Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.119)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:Cree, Plains | English
Date:1994-1999, 2009
Contributor:Cuthand, Stan | Matthews, Maureen Anne, 1949- | McLeod, Neal
Subject:Alberta--History | Art | Folklore | Manitoba--History | Saskatchewan--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Radio programs | Stories
Extent:20+ hours
Description: Audio recordings of interviews with Cree people on topics including Cree language, history, horses, wihtigo, thunderbirds, and other topics. The bulk of the interviews are with Stan Cuthand and Neal McLeod. The majority of the audio materials are interviews recorded in the context of producing radio documentaries for CBC Radio One from the early 1990s through late 2000s. (See Series I, Subseries 12 for the broadcast version of these documentaries.) Transcripts for both the finished documentaries are located in Series II.
Collection:Maureen Matthews Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.164)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:Cree, Plains | English
Date:1967-1968
Contributor:Green, Paul | Lightning, Cecilia | Lightning, Philip | Morin, Alexie | Oskatamin, Paul | Whitebear, William | Wolfart, H. Christoph | Yellowbird, Jacob | Yellowbird, Mark
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Stories
Extent:5 sound tape reels (7 hr., 53 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings of 66 Plains Cree stories made in multiple locations with multiple speakers in Alberta, Canada in 1967 and 1968. (NOTE: This collection is currently restricted in light of potential cultural sensitivities and/or privacy concerns.)
Collection:Plains Cree Texts from the Province of Alberta (Mss.Rec.65)
Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Date:1968, 1971
Contributor:Harbeck, Warren A. | Rider, Dillon | Snow, John | Stoney, Will Good | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Stories
Extent:3 sound tape reels (52 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collection consists of one tape of a New Years' Service held at a Community Hall on 1 January 1968, and two tapes of autobiographical stories, folkloric stories, tribal histories, and descriptions of customs given in the Stoney language only by Carl Simeon (identified as a "speaker of the younger dialect") on 21 August 1971 and by Willie Good Stoney (identified as a "speaker of the older dialect") on 23 August 1971. (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:Stoney (Assiniboine) texts taken at Stoney Reserve, Morley, Alberta (Mss.Rec.87)