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Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Language:English
Date:1819
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Memoranda
Extent:2 pages
Description: Memorandum of letters and manuscripts received. Mi'kmaq via Thomas Wister from friend in New York State.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1806-1892
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Smith, Rev. T. W. | Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 | Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
Subject:Linguistics | Expeditions | Missouri Territory | Rocky Mountains--History | Material culture | Sign language
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:7 items
Description: Correspondence regarding Plains Indian materials. Includes Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Vaughan transmitting a copy of his "communications to Congress of the information respecting Louisiana..." [Jefferson (1806)]; Du Ponceau's request for a copy of the first two pages of Journal historique from original in Department of State; Du Ponceau to Johann S. Vater concerning Indian vocabularies brought in by Major Long, which are being copied into his book, where he now has 25 vocabularies (notes that Long lost others when baggage men deserted to the Indians); John C. Calhoun's instructions for Long's Missouri expedition (Long urged to pacify and conciliate Indians, get information as to their number and character, fill in vocabulary forms, and follow Jefferson's instructions to Lewis [Printed (in part), James (1823): 3-5]; Ferdinand V. Hayden's observations on the Indian history of the Colorado region, including use of stone arrow points by the Pawnees, earth huts of Indians along Missouri River, use of stone implements, and other topics. [Printed, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 10: 352-353]; Daniel G. Brinton's letter to Henry Phillips desiring a copy of Hayden's article on Missouri Tribes for Horatio Hale; and Rev. T.W. Smith's inquiry about a paper on Sign language [See also Dunbar (1809)]. Other Native American groups mentioned include Ho-Chunk, Shoshoni, Upsaroko or Crow, Wahtoktatas, Kanzas, Omahas, Yankton Sioux, Pawnee (Panis), Minnetaree (Gros Ventre), and Sioux.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:December 7, 1822 - January 20, 1823
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 letters
Description: Discusses Indian meaning of Schenectady, using Zeisberger's Maqua dictionary.
Collection:George William Featherstonhaugh Papers (Mss.B.F31)
Language:English
Date:July 30, 1818
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Pike, Zebulon, 1751-1834 | Pyrlaeus, John Christopher, 1713-1785 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning his publication, Captain Pike's speech, and Zeisberger's manuscripts on Indian languages. Parts of the manuscript of the grammar and the dictionary are in the hand of Pyrlaeus; hence they are of Mohawk, rather than of Onondaga.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Language:English
Date:October 10, 1819
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning review of his publication in British review--probably a result of Quaker influence. He will make more usable for Du Ponceau a Moravian manuscript on Mohican language (words, phrases, parts of grammars). Discusses mood conveyed in sentence describing one recovered from the dead.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Language:English
Date:1820; 1888
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items. 1) Peter S. du Ponceau's 1820 memorandum returning Thomas Jefferson's vocabulary of the Unquachog to John Vaughan; and 2) Albert S. Gatschet's letters to Henry Phillips regarding his efforts to identify the Algonquian vocabulary copied from Du Ponceau as either Unquachog or Poosepatuk.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Language:English
Date:1818; 1838
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items relating to Muscogee (Creek) materials at the American Philosophical Society. The first (1818) is Peter S. du Ponceau's letter to General David B. Mitchell, asking for aid in obtaining Southern Indian grammars, articles on Indian customs, and Benjamin Hawkins manuscript on Creeks. The other (1838) is David Hubbard's letter to John Vaughan, stating that, on the basis of his personal observations since 1833, Benjamin Hawkins' sketch of the Creek Indians is extremely accurate.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1822
Subject:Place names | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Correspondence | Maps | Translations
Extent:1 volume
Description: Place names (taken from deeds of conveyance, maps, and narrated by Indians), for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, together with names and biographies of chiefs and famous men. Translations.
Collection:Names which the Lenni Lenape...had given to rivers, streams, places, etc. (Mss.497.3.H35n)
Language:English
Date:1818-1893
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Nanticoke materials at the American Philosophical Society. Includes Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, suggesting that Nanticoke is a variant of Delaware; Du Ponceau to John Vaughan, mentioning the return of Nanticoke, Huron, and vocabularies of 7 languages compared by Heckewelder; R. S. Streeter of the Maryland Historical Society wants a copy of the American Philosophical Society's Nanticoke vocabulary, or copy of folio volume of Vocabularies; and John Sergeant Price to to Henry Phillips regarding A. H. Smyth's resolution [to have Daniel G. Brinton prepare Jefferson's Nanticoke vocabulary for publication].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Language:English
Date:1805-1838
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:6 items
Description: Materials relating to Northwest Coast languages and cultures at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include APS support for John Kirk Townsend's expedition [to Oregon, with botonist Thomas Nuttall, the second western expedition of Boston entrepreneur Nathaniel J. Jarvis]; Captain Swift's [of Boston] observations of indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast; Lieutenant Sylvanus W. Godon's return from U.S. exploring expedition aboard the Peacock, a gift of vocabularies, and the gift of Northwest Coast Indian pipe to John Vaughan; a draft letter to Samuel G. Morton signed by Titian Peale regarding the division of materials from Townsend's expedition between American Philosophical Society and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; a letter from Morton stating that the Academy of Natural Sciences didn't subscribe to Townsend's expedition and consequently has no claim on his collections; and Townsend's letter to John Vaughan transmitting Northwest Coast Indian vocabularies--the originals have been given to the APS and have also been rearranged and transcribed for Du Ponceau, and Nuttall has a copy of four or five vocabularies. Geological specimens and shells selected by Titian R. Peale also transmitted.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)