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Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Date:1951
Contributor:Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Personal names
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:5 sound tape reels (4 hr., 54 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: These recordings consist of a reading of an alphabetical listing of approximately 6200 Haudenosaunee personal names "in the Mohawk dialect", assembled by Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) from 1900-1951, and edited by Marius Barbeau. The accompanying manuscripts for these recordings are available in the "Iroquois personal names" collection (Mss.497.3.C772). (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:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)
Culture:
Date:1900-1951
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Ontario--History | Québec (Province)--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Personal names | Essays | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:1380 pages
Description: This manuscript is an alphabetical list of about 6200 Iroquoian names, collected over 5 decades by Charles Cooke (Thawennensere), a Mohawk scholar from Wahta. Each entry includes the name in its Mohawk rendering, with phonetic spelling, gender, tribe, location, date, and clan. The name is then analyzed by radicals, with historical information about its bearer (where relevant). Cross reference to variants and from English names of Indians. Preface by Cooke, edited by C. Marius Barbeau, classifies names and gives numbers and sex. This item has been fully digitized and can be viewed online. See also an accompanying audio collection (Mss.Rec.10), listed separately in this guide, in which Cooke reads the majority of the names.
Collection:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1770; 1818
Contributor:Mathevet, Jean Claude, 1717-1781
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Sermons | Hymns | Translations
Extent:2 reels
Description: Thirty-nine volumes of relgious materials and translations prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. Materials include Mathevet's translation into Mohawk of the Old Testament (3 volumes); New Testament (8 volumes); sermons (10 volumes); formal religious materials (16 volumes); an anonymous Algonquin manuscript; and an anonymous volume of catechism, prayers, and hymns in Huron. Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Date:1820-1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)