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Culture: Apache, Western | Apache, Jicarilla
Alternate forms: Ndee
Language(s): 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: Aymara
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: Cherokee
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)
Culture: Chinook
Language(s): Chinook Jargon | English
Date: 1951
Contributor: Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971
Subject: Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre: Vocabularies
Extent: 5 pages
Description: William Bright's only Chinook Jargon item is a 5-page list of morphemes that he derived from publications by Boas and Jacobs, found in Series 4.
Collection: William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture: Chochenyo
Language(s): 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: Chumash
Date: 1959-1995
Contributor: Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Beeler, Madison Scott, 1910- | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | McLendon, Sally | Johnson, John | Hvolboll, Elizabeth Erro
Subject: Linguistics | Place names | Ethnography
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre: Newspaper clippings | Magazines | Drafts | Vocabularies | Maps
Extent: 0.25 linear feet
Description: Beginning with fieldwork in around 1959-1960 with Marie de Soto at Santa Barbara, California, Bright continued to collected materials in Chumashan languages and villages throughout his life. A short field notebook can be found in Series 3 Subseries 2, along with a large topical folder on Chumash in Series 4. Correspondence on “Hispanisms” (Spanish borrowings into Native languages, Series 1, and the card file in Series 5) is also of note.
Collection: William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture: Cora
Alternate forms: Naáyarite
Language(s): 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: Cupeño
Date: ca.1959-1975
Contributor: Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Carillo, Fr. J. M. | Nolasquez, Roscinda | Galloway, Anne
Subject: Linguistics | Language study and teaching | California--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre: Newspaper clippings | Books | Grammars | Vocabularies
Extent: 0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's small Cupeño collection consists of publications on Cupeño lexica, newspaper clippings collected during the 1960s, a history of a Californian mission (Series 2), and a comparative Takic language lexical slip file (Series 5).
Collection: William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture: Dakelh
Alternate forms: Carrier
Language(s): 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
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)