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Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Date:1891-1938; 1966
Contributor:Crawford, Mary M., 1861-1946 | Crawford, Elizabeth | In-go-nom-pa-shi | Jonas, Levi W. | Axtell, Juliet L. | Cooper, Carrie S. | Rumsey, Minnie M. | Ellinwood, Frank F. (Frank Field), 1826-1908
Subject:Sign language | Missions | Idaho--History | Presbyterian Church | Linguistics | Religion
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings | Photographs | Hymns
Extent:1 microfilm reel (121 pages, 9 photographs)
Description: This collection of materials on American Sign language is based on the work of Presbyterian missionaries in Idaho in the nineteenth century. Includes a Nez Perce hymnal; discussion and illustrations on the meaning of symbols and on the use of sign seven published works; miscellaneous clippings; photographs; and correspondence of sisters Mary and Elizabeth Crawford. The published works include the history of the Idaho mission and sign language translations by Mr. Levi W. Jonas (native Nez Perce superintendent of the Kamiah church) and In-go-nom-pa-shi. Includes over 1,500 sign language hand symbols of the Nez Perce language with thirty portraits of missionaries and Nez Perce Indians of Idaho from 1891-1938. Illustrations from different published works such as Gospel hymns in the Nez Perce language (1897); The Sign language and the invention of Mr. Lewis F. Hadley (Chicago, 1891); and Sign language; talk by In-go-nom-pa-shi. Also, clippings from various Presbyterian publications. From materials in possession of Miss Jean Rumsey.
Collection:Nez Perce Sign Language materials, 1891-1938 (Mss.Film.1226)
Culture:
Language:Algonquin | Choctaw | English | Miami-Illinois | Narragansett
Date:1787-1888
Contributor:Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Richmond, James Cook, 1808-1866 | Ticknor, George, 1791-1871
Subject:Colonies | Germany--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: These letters and documents concern primarily the American Colony of Göttingen, including a record book containing historical data on the group (1855-1888), and the Algonquin, Choctaw, Illinois, and Naragansett Indian languages. Includes letters of: B. A. Gould, F. R. Hassler, Gauss, Sir Joseph Banks, J. F. Blumenbach. Originals in Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany.
Collection:Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen letters and documents (Mss.H.S.Film.8)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:circa 1900-1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Williams, Frank
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Drafts | Vocabularies | Notes | Stories
Extent:2 reels
Description: These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). Originals at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Collection:Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials (Mss.Film.687)
Culture:
Date:1735-1900
Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Subject:Moravians | Moravian Church | Missions | Linguistics | Religion | Social life and customs | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes | Church records
Extent:40 reels
Description: This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Originals in the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Collection:Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform] (Mss.Film.1279)
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Language:English
Date:1817-1883
Contributor:United Church Board for World Ministries
Subject:Missions | Religion | United Church Board for World Ministries
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Reports | Accounts | Memoranda
Extent:64 reels
Description: These papers include letters, reports, accounts, and memoranda relating to the work of the American Board of Home Missions among the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Dakota, Ojibwa, Miami, Osage, Pawnee, Penobscot, and Stockbridge-Munsee peoples of Arkansas, New York, and Oregon. Originals in Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Collection:Papers, 1817-1883, relating to North American Indian missions (Mss.Film.1223)
Culture:
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Catechisms | Hymns | Prayers
Extent:2 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 relate to the Ottawa (Odawa) language and include prayers, hymns, and catechisms. Originals at the Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec and Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Date:1914
Contributor:Beauchamp, William Martin, 1830-1925
Subject:History | Government relations | Personal names | Diplomacy | Treaties | Politics and government | Biography
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Essays
Extent:1 reel
Description: Collected by William Martin Beauchamp, an Episcopal clergyman, in 1909, these names were taken from treaties, delegations, and other documents and are often accompanied by English translations as well as biographical information. Includes "Sketches of Onondagas of Note," "Names given to whites," and "Names of Iroquois, exclusive of Onondagas." Originals at the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse, NY.
Collection:Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914 (Mss.Film.643)
Language:English
Date:1748-1759
Contributor:Glen, James, 1701-1777 | Forbes, John, 1707-1759
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Warfare | Government relations | South Carolina--History | Military history
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: These concern James Glen, Governor of South Carolina from 1743 to 1756, and John Forbes, Colonel and later Brigadier General in the British Forces stationed in North America. There are references to South Carolina politics and government, Indian policy, the French and Indian War, and Forbes' expedition. From originals in the Dalhousie Muniments, Scottish Record Office, General Register House, Edinburgh.
Collection:Papers relating to America in the Dalhousie Muniments, 1748-1759 (Mss.Film.1231)
Language:English
Date:November 14, 1741
Contributor:Breintnall, Joseph, d. 1746
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Peter Collinson from original in the Linnean Society of London concerning a family of Pennsylvania Indians reduced to cannibalism by starvation.
Collection:Peter Collinson papers (Mss.Film.629)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
San Felipe includes: Katishtya, Keres
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:1801-1843
Subject:Linguistics | Philology
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:33 items
Description: Correspondence, largely from Peter S. du Ponceau to Albert Gallatin, regarding legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society. Specific topics include exchanges of publications and manuscripts between the two men; the creation of a map of Indian languages; the government's collecting of Indian vocabularies and du Ponceau's refusal to supply Historical and Literary Committee material to the government, believing that the committee rather than the government should undertake the collection and publication of Indian materials; methods of seeking data on languages, and the difficulties of sentence for testing problems of comparative Vocabularies;s both already published and in progess, such as Eliot's Grammar, Barton (1797), Pickering (1820), Hodgson on the Berber, Najera (1837), Zeisberger (1830), Gallatin (1836), Prichard (1813), several of du Ponceau's works, etc.; du Ponceau's acceptance of copies of Gallatin's Synopsis, with a jab at its Worcester (rather than APS) the fate of the manuscript for du Ponceau's prize essay: the printer bankrupt, difficulties in getting manuscript returned, and du Ponceau has no full copy; of du Ponceau's study of Chinese;s and the Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee; du Ponceau's acceptance of vocabularies on behalf of the the state of European linguistics; Pickering's alphabet for Indian languages; Carib women's vs. men's the opposition founding of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and du Ponceau's efforts to make peace by submitting his translation of Vater's Enquiry for them to publish; illnesses and deaths in du Ponceau's family; and du Ponceau's age, health, and failing eyesight. Other individuals mentioned include Franklin, Rush, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Cass, Schoolcraft, Long, Ebeling, Adelung, Klaproth, Balbi, Humboldt, Volney, and Heckewelder. Originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau letters, 1801-1843, to Albert Gallatin (Mss.Film.541)