Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: This manuscript is an alphabetical list of about 6200 Iroquoian names, collected over 5 decades by Charles Cooke (Thawennensere), a Mohawk scholar from Wahta. Each entry includes the name in its Mohawk rendering, with phonetic spelling, gender, tribe, location, date, and clan. The name is then analyzed by radicals, with historical information about its bearer (where relevant). Cross reference to variants and from English names of Indians. Preface by Cooke, edited by C. Marius Barbeau, classifies names and gives numbers and sex. See also an accompanying audio collection (Mss.Rec.10), listed separately in this guide, in which Cooke reads the majority of the names. (Note: this item is currently restricted as potentially culturally sensitive pending further review. Reproduction is restricted.)

Collection:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)

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Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora; . . . Mohawk suffixes

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Date:1951

Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958 | Thomas, David | Ninham, Cassie

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies

Extent:1 volume

Description: The volume consists of copies of 3 sets of fieldnotes in the following order. Onondaga verbs, possessive pronouns, nouns, Cartier's vocabulary, and compound pronouns, obtained August 5, 1951, at Ohsweken, Ontario, from Onondaga speaker David Thomas (49p.); Tuscarora word list, similar to above, but with equivalents for many items in Oneida, Mohawk, and Cayuga, obtained from multi-lingual speaker Cassie Ninham, August 10-21, 1951 (79p.); List of Mohawk suffixes obtained from Charles Cooke, August 21, 1951 (4p., one unnumbered).

Collection:Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora; . . . Mohawk suffixes (Mss.497.2.B235)