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Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1722-1801
Contributor:Pierce, John, 1745?-1808 | Pennsylvania. Provincial Council | Montrésor, John, 1736-1799
Subject:Murder | Indian traders | Fur trade | Alcohol | Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | Treaties | Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765 | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Witchcraft | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Reports | Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Colonel John French and James Logan's 1722 report to the Pennsylvania Provincial Council about the murder of an Indian by traders John and Edmund Cartlidge during a drunken brawl, including depositions and Indians' demands for satisfaction. John Montresor's letter to Colonel James Montresor, regarding his meeting with the Senecas and meetings with other Native peoples in the Great Lakes region in fall of 1764, during Pontiac's War; his position made precarious by General Gage's desire to continue war; French aid to Indians. Pierce's 1801 journal of a visit to Cornplanter Reservation, including an account of Conediu (Handsome Lake) meetings with Indians, September 18-21. Conediu accuses Munsy of witchcraft on Cornplanter's daughter.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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Language:English
Date:After 1806, circa 1814
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology
Type:Text
Extent:2 pages
Description: A note on Barton's "Article on animals of America." Refers to his name for elk, Cervus Wapiti, derived from Shawnee. See also Barton (1806).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Language:English
Date:circa 1951-1953
Contributor:Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015
Subject:Land tenure | Land claims | United States. Indian Claims Commission | Anthropology | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Legal documents | Notes | Essays
Extent:4 folders
Description: The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers are a vast collection of materials relating to Wallace's work at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and history. See the finding aid for a detailed discussion of Wallace's long and varied career, and for an itemized list of the collection's contents. Though further research might yield more results, four items directly relating to the Shawnees have been identified. All concern Wallace's work as a researcher and expert witness on behalf of Native American land claims. In Series IX. Indian Claims, there are four folders labeled as follows: "Shawnee Indians--Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, et. al. vs. the United States of America, Docket No. 335" (1951), "Shawnee Indians--Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, et. al. vs. the United States of America, Docket 335: Ohio Trial Memoranda" (1953), "Shawnee Indians--Notes," and "Shawnee Indians--Tribal Histories."
Collection:Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64a)
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Language:English
Date:December 20, 1764
Contributor:Hall, David, 1714-1772
Subject:Diplomacy | Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Benjamin Franklin giving full account of the escape of the six Shawnee hostages and the reasons for it.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
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Language:English | Shawnee | Miami-Illinois
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Williams, Mary | Williams, Nancy | Voegelin, F. M. (Florence Marie), 1927-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Algonquian languages
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Stories | Essays | Drafts | Maps
Extent:95 folders, 12 boxes, 1 reel
Description: There is a significant amount of Shawnee material in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Materials are in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there are 4 boxes of Shawnee note cards (mostly vocabulary) and 2 folders of document notes (mostly linguistic notes, regarding transitive verbs, stems, phonology, etc.) in Series II. Card Files. Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin of Series III. Works by Voegelin contains two Shawnee texts that were translated and/or linguistically analyzed by Voegelin and which served as the basis of publications by Voegelin in the early 1950s: "Shawnee Episodes" (5 folders) and "Shawnee Laws" (44 folders of material) [see the finding aid for detailed descriptions of these materials]. Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin (also of Series III) contains files labeled "Basic Shawnee" and "Shawnee Morphology." There is a folder of linguistic notes (including a story in English) in "[Shawnee?]" and a list of tribal names in "Shawnee" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A. Language Names. There is a file of "Unique Shawnee Texts" containing Mary Williams' responses to "English Through Pictures" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts. There are 37 Shawnee notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. The notebooks date to 1934 and primarily contain texts, including many about the life of a consultant identified as F. D., "the way it used to be," and the way life was more recently in 1934 in Oklahoma. Most of the notebooks are accompanied by handwritten notes and typescripts of transcriptions in Shawnee and translations in English. Shawnee is also represented on the language maps created for Voegelin's publications on Algonquian languages in Series VII. Photographs, and there is a reel of Shawnee audio recording (a reading of the transcript of "Shawnee Laws") in Series VIII. Recordings [This item has been digitized and is available through the APS Digital Library]. In Subcollection II, there is relevant correspondence with Leonard Bloomfield (regarding Shawnee work with Mary Williams) in Series I. Correspondence; 2 folders of Shawnee grammatical notes made by working with Mary Williams, a folder of miscellaneous Shawnee notes, and 2 folders of Shawnee texts (26 texts in Shawnee and English, and additional material) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian; and 8 boxes of Shawnee linguistic materials in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
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Date:1936-1952
Contributor:Ballard, W. L. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Williams, Mary
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Autobiographies
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Lounsbury Papers are relatively limited. Of special interest is an untranslated autobiography of Mary Williams in the Shawnee language in Series II.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Language:English
Date:1903-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Poole, Earl L. | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Social life and customs | Pennsylvania--History | Moravians | Clans | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Art | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Newspaper clippings | Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Shawnee language, history, and culture. Includes an essay on Speck's visit to an excavation site at Fort Hill, Pennsylvania in July 1903 in which he identifies the site as Shawnee; a letter from Carl Voegelin and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin transmitting lists of Shawnee dances to Speck; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin concerning field data on Shawnee use of false faces; an undated report by Wheeler-Voegelin on general burial traits, including a brief account of field experiences and an 8-page outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure; a letter from Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning Shawnee legends, asking about silk applique techniques, and enclosing news clippings; and 16 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Shawnee notes and correspondence, including two letters from Earl L. Poole (Reading Museum), together with a transcript of a 1747 letter of Conrad Weiser taken from American German Review: 12: 4, 18-19, April 1946, regarding meeting of Shawnees and Count Zinzendorf; a postal card from "C" on grasshopper war; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin; a letter from War Eagle concerning Bread Dance; 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; and notes on Shawnee clans.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Shawnee | Meskwaki | Menominee | Miami-Illinois | Cree
Date:1935-1987
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Ballard, W. L. | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Subject:Linguistics | Economics | Place names | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Essays | Bibliographies | Vocabularies | Grammars
Description: The Shawnee material in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of ethnographic and linguistic materials. Siebert's research can be found in Series V. Research done by C.F. Voeglin and Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin is located in Series IV and VII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
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Language:English
Date:August 4, 1748
Contributor:Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Warfare | Diplomacy | Treaties | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748 | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Richard Peters reporting that Shawnees and praying Indians have helped kill some whites. Discusses negotiations with 55 Indians at Lancaster.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
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Language:English
Date:August 14, 1780
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Missions | Moravians | Warfare | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder to Daniel Brodhead concerning Shawnee Indians and the war. From original at Harvard University.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and papers, 1789-1796 (Mss.Film.805.2)