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Language:English
Date:1923-1924
Subject:Linguistics | Siouan languages | Muskogean languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Florida--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: This folder, Section IV(15J2a), "Seminole--Notes on Calusa," contains 9 items relating to the Calusa people of Florida. Materials include an account of the Seminoles and their mixed past; a discussion of the Siouan origin of South Carolina native Francisco de Chicora's terms [Francisco de Chicora was the baptismal name given to an indigenous man captured by Spaniards near the Pee Dee River in 1521. Swanton argued that the man was Catawba, which is a Siouan language.]; a letter from H. Knotts concerning Muscogee and letters from John R. Swanton concerning Speck's trip to Florida with Fewkes, Cusabo-Muskhogean-Siouan boundaries, and Speck as aid to Fewkes in locating Calusa remnants among the Seminoles.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:1931
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Coe, Ernest F.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Missions | Religion | Silverwork | Florida--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence
Extent:10 pages
Description: Materials relating to Seminole history and culture and to the creation of Everglades National Park. Items include a 1-page document concerning Glade Cross mission activities in the Everglades among the Seminoles; 2 pages of notes on Seminole silverwork; correspondence of Henry W. Haynes to Frank C. Speck (Ta-de-wim) concerning visit to the Seminoles, Calusa question, and suggesting people to see in Florida; letter from Ernest F. Coe concerning Seminoles as guides, should there be an Everglades national park; letters from Coe to Speck and to Roy Nash (Bureau of Indian Affairs), U.S. Department of Interior supporting national park in Everglades.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)