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Culture:
Apache, Western includes: Apache, San Carlos
Language:Apache, Western | Jicarilla | English | Spanish
Date:1981-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J. | Vicenti, Carson
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Books
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright's Apache file consists mostly of correspondence with Philip Greenfeld, particularly of Spanish loanwords into Western Apache (Series 1). There is also a Jicarilla Apache dictionary, with marginalia by Bright, in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Date:2001
Contributor:Cowell, Andrew | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Arapaho item is correspondence with Andrew Cowell on his manuscript “Publishing Tales about Taking Horses”, about traditional Arapaho narratives (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Aymara includes: Aimara
Date:1988, 1991
Contributor:Briggs, Lucy Therina | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Aymara item is correspondence with Lucy Briggs on a Spanish-language Aymara grammar (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1960s-2000s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Masthay, Carl | Munro, Pamela | Walker, Willard | Spade, Watt
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected a small number of books on Cherokee language and culture, including a copy of the Cherokee Advocate newspaper (Series 2), as well as corresponding with Carl Masthay on Cherokee place names and with Pamela Munro on Cherokee linguistic analysis (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:Ohlone, Northern | English | Spanish
Date:1994-2004
Contributor:Callaghan, Catherine A. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Blevins, Juliette | Garrett, Andrew
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's only Chochenyo (Ohlone) materials can be found in Series 1, and are correspondence with Catherine Callaghan, including an 8-page list of Spanish loanwords in Chochenyo (toward Bright's “Hispanisms” study), and Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:1994-1997, undated
Contributor:Anderton, Alice J. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Charney, Jean Ormsbee
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's Comanche language materials are in correspondence with Alice Anderton and Jean Charney (Series 1), including Comanche language lessons, floppy disks that may contain relevant material, and a 174-page lexicon from Casagrande's work “Comanche Linguistic Acculturation”.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Cora includes: Naáyarite
Language:Cora, Santa Teresa | Cora, El Nayar | English
Date:1988-1992
Contributor:Casad, Eugene | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Cora materials consist of correspondence with Eugene Casad (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Language:Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | English
Date:2002-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Poser, William
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Dakelh materials consist of discussions with William Poser on the manuscript "DAlk'wahke: The First Carrier Writing System", a description of the derivative of Cree syllabics introduced in 1885.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Date:2003
Contributor:Koontz, John E. | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright corresponded with John E. Koontz on the etymology of “Dakota”, including a 4-page manuscript draft from Koontz on the topic (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:Keres, Eastern | English | Spanish
Date:1996-1999
Contributor:Davis, Irvine | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: During the collection of William Bright's Hispanisms lexical file (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, Series 5) he corresponded with Irvine Davis on Santa Ana and Santo Domingo varieties of Keresan.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)