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Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | Chinook Jargon | English | French
Date:1961, 1966, 1971
Contributor:Abel, Joe | Abel, Mary | Armstrong, Willie | Gabriel, Louise | Gregoire, Tommy | Holding, Margaret | Lezard, George | Pierre, Larry | Pierre, Selina | Watkins, Donald
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Music | Religion | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories | Prayers | Songs | Conversations | Vocabularies
Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 4 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Syilx (Okanagan Salish) stories with English free conversation on dialectical variations in Okanagan and borrowing from French and English; elicitation sessions covering animal names, fish names, body parts, and words containing fricatives; Catholic hymns in Okanagan and Chinook. Recorded in Penticton, Spectacle Lake, and head of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, in 1961, 1966, and 1971. Project report, letter to APS Librarian, and detailed tape contents available in Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4). (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Okanagan Salish stories and songs (Mss.Rec.101)
Culture:
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Nlaka'pamux includes: Nlakapamuk, Nłeʔkepmx, Ntlakyapamuk, Thompson
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1980-1981
Contributor:Robinson, Harry | Wickwire, Wendy
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent:16 hr., 46 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Audio recordings of traditional and autobiographical Okanagan stories, recorded by Wendy C. Wickwire in Hedley and Merritt, British Columbia in 1980-1981. May contain occasional Nsyilxcən words. Otherwise predominantly in English. Access to these recordings is currently restricted, as of November 2020, while they are reviewed for which materials can be made available for general research access.
Collection:Okanagan Stories (Mss.Rec.116)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:Columbia-Wenatchi | English | Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:Circa 1900, 1908, 1913, 1915-1921, 1930
Contributor:Commons, Rachel S., 1899-1936 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Brooks, Cecile | Louis, Mrs. | Joy, Lucy | Tilson, Andrew | Louie, Johnny | Brooks, Michel | Louie, Emma | Joe, Lucy
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | British Columbia--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Cartographic
Genre:Field notes | Maps | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:314+ pages, 40 slips, multiple map, notebooks
Description: The Syilx (Okanagon) materials in the APS collection consists mainly of items in the "Okanagan" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Okanagan materials" (item S1d.1) include vocabulary and texts with interlinear translation, and some corresponding Kalispel forms. Teit's "Vocabulary in Okanagon and related dialects" (item S1d.2) includes forms from Nkaus, Sanpoil, Colville, and Lake dialects, with some parallel forms in Kalispel and Columbia. Rachel Commons' field notes (item S1d.4) include word lists, ethnographic notes (including a map), and some linguistic text. In the "Salish" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) include notes on 80 songs (some of which are Syilx) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In this same section, Teit's "Field notes on Thompson and neighboring Salish languages" (item S1b.7) consists of numerous notebooks, which partially include some ethnographic notes on Syilx matters.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)