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Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:French | Miami-Illinois
Date:n.d., circa 1720?
Contributor:Boulanger, Jean Baptiste le, 1685-1740
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: Original in John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. French-Miami dictionary, alphabetical by the French; 46 pages of texts, including prayers, catechism, scripture. Conjugations and declensions.
Collection:French and Miami-Illinois dictionary (Mss.497.33.L49)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:French | Iroquoian (macrolanguage) | Algonquin | Algonquian | Mohawk
Date:1768-1879 and undated
Contributor:Guichart, Vincent-Fleuri, 1729-1793 | Marcoux, Joseph, 1791-1855 | Plessis, Joseph Octave, 1763-1825
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Translations
Extent:5 items
Description: These manuscripts include dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, prayers, canticles, Bible tales and religious instructions prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. From originals at the Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1755; 1847
Contributor:De Lorimier, Jean-Baptiste, 1786-1845
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include an unattributed 1847 letter, in French, on the etymology of some Personal names; a word list obtained at Sault St. Louis, with a note on provenance, attributed to de Lorimier, possibly the French-Haudenosaunee interpreter and agent Jean-Baptiste de Lorimier or one of his relations; and the 1755 "Livre des prieres, cantiques, et himnes en langue hyroquois telles qu'on se sont maintenant a la Mission du Lac des Deux Montagnes," containing various notes added to an original manuscript on plain chant, carols, articles preliminary to the peace of Versailles in 1783, description of a serpent killed at Chateau Ste. Anne, recipes, remedies, etc. Originals in Laval University, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko
Date:1815-1834
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Translations
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Numeral list; mentioned in extract from Clavigero (1787).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Date:1743-1744
Contributor:Potier, Pierre-Philippe, 1708-1781
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:38 photocopies
Description: Original in Archives of the Jesuit seminary, Montreal, College Ste.-Marie. Vocabulary of Huron with French equivalents, semantically ordered (parts of body, terms of relationship, animals, etc.). List of names of occupants of Huron villages, L'ile aux bois blanc, 1747 (33 cabins); list of bands, locations, names of chiefs. Collected by missionary at Huron-Wyandot mission of Sandwich, Detroit River.
Collection:Huron linguistic materials, 1743-1744 (Mss.497.2.P845)
Language:French | Innu-aimun
Date:Before 1876
Contributor:Vegreville, Rev. Pere, Oblate of Mary Immaculate
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies
Extent:Circa 110 pages on microfilm
Description: Dictionnaire Montagnais-francais, from copy at Catholic University of America. Alphabetical list of stems (by Montagnais), 51 pages. Vocabulary without order, 29 pages, and verb conjugations, 29 pages.
Collection:Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials (Mss.Film.1008)
Language:French | Innu-aimun
Date:1953
Contributor:Harper, Francis, 1886-1972
Subject:Québec (Province)--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:4 pages
Description: Lists of Montagnais names of birds, fishes and amphibians, and mammals. Based on French-speaking informants, Sebastian McKenzie and his son Francis, Scotch-Montagnais descent. Orthography is French, not phonetic. Secured during Ungava expedition of the Arctic Institute of North America.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Language:English | Innu-aimun | French
Date:1925-1937; 1982
Contributor:Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Clarke, Sandra | MacKenzie, Marguerite | Ford, Alan | Martin, Pierre, 1947- | Gunner, Andrew | Cowan, William | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Hunting
Type:Text
Description: The Innu materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are predominantly linguistic materials, with one story and ethnographic study. Original notes by Siebert can be found in Series V: Notebooks, under notebooks labelled "Lake St. John" and "Scribble-in Book." Secondary sources, which use the term "Montagnais," can be found in Series IV and VII
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Language:English | French | Naskapi | Innu-aimun
Date:circa 1690-1774
Contributor:Laure, Pierre-Michel, 1688-1738 | Faber, Bonaventura
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Prayers | Dictionaries | Baptismal records | Marriage registers | Birth registers | Death registers | Church records
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include a copy of a Montagnais dictionary attributed to Father Bonaventura Faber (or Favre) circa 1690; Montagnais prayers attributed to Father Pierre-Michel (or Petro) Laure, containing also a fragment of a letter dated 1724 noting "this is the third year that I live with the Tad8ssaciens," and denouncing the honesty and truthfulness of the Indians; and a register of baptisms, marriages, and deaths at La Mission du Domain du Roy from 1759 to 1774. Native peoples mentioned in the latter include Chicoutimi, Tadussaks, Mille Vaches, and Montagnais. Originals in the Archives de l'Archiveche de Quebec, Bibliotheque de l'Archeveche de Quebec, and Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Date:1814?
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars
Extent:98 pages
Description: A teaching grammar, based on the manuscript grammar of Abbe Anthony S. Maillard, possibly by Rev. Joseph-Marie Bellenger. A grammar on Latin model, mostly on verb conjugations, but sections on orthography, nouns, pronouns, apparently incomplete, ends at "Verbe reciproque."
Collection:Instruction sur la langue Mickmaque (Mss.497.2.In75)