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Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Language:English | Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ)
Date:1928-1982
Contributor:Li, Fanggui | Mandeville, François | Ferrier, Baptiste | Thompson, Laurence C. | Thompson, M. Terry
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Dene languages | Folklore | Alberta--History | California--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Vocabularies | Transcriptions | Stories | Interviews | Oral histories
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: The heart of the Fanggui Li Collection is comprised of ten notebooks kept by the linguist Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li relating to his research on the Denesuline "Chipewyan" language in 1928. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from François Mandeville in Denesuline, and, in one instance, Baptiste Ferrier) in July 1928, with interlinear English translations. The topics of these stories include myths, folklore, and tribal history as well as activities like fishing, tanning a moose hide, or making a canoe. The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for Denesuline language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concerning Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics. Interview topics include Li's early education, experience at the University of Chicago, Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir's influence on his course of study, Li's fieldwork on the Mattole language in Northern California in the late 1920s, discrimination against Chinese in that region at that time, Li's work with Sapir on the Hupa reservation, and various aspects of linguistic methodology of the times, including recording with wax cylinders. See the finding aid for more information, including more details on the contents of each notebook and the two audio cassettes, and for related material.
Collection:Fanggui Li Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.119)
Culture:
Language:Maidu, Northwest | English | Wailaki | Nomlaki
Date:1930s-1970s
Contributor:Susman, Amelia, 1915- | Anderson, Polly | Feliz, Anne | McLaine, Austin | Major, Fred | Young, Lucy | Joe, Alice | Moore, Ralph | Murphey, Edith | Cox, Alice L. | Frazier, William
Subject:Treaties | California--History | Whites--Relations with Indians | Indian Removal, 1813-1903 | Linguistics | Fieldwork | Censuses | Anthropology | Cultural assimilation
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Correspondence | Censuses | Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Government documents | Interviews | Maps | Oral histories | Genealogies | Theses | Vocabularies | Essays
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: During the late 1930s, Amelia Susman Schultz conducted fieldwork on acculturation at the Round Valley Indian Reservation, California, for a Ph.D. thesis eventually published in 1976. Series II of the Amelia Susman Schultz Papers reflects both periods of research, though mostly the late 1930s. Of particular interest are: ten field notebooks from 1937, most containing some language data (undetermined as yet which languages) in addition to ethnographic notes from discussions with consultants; ethnographic notes arranged by subject (see items titled "Ethnographic notes by subject" in addition to "Notes on full sheets" and "Notes on half sheets"); descriptions of Round Valley's chronology, population history, genealogy, and socioeconomic surveys; and Schultz's works-in-progress, including the original dissertation.
Collection:Amelia Susman Schultz Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.171)