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Language:English
Date:September 3, 1818; March 4, 1820
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Butrick, D. S. (Daniel Sabin), 1789-1847 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 letters
Description: Concerning the Indian. Mentions visit of Correia da Serra; quotes letter received from Mrs. Gambold (July 20, 1818) replying to letter from Heckewelder. Gambold had supplied data to B. S. Barton. Suggests Du Ponceau write Butrick at Brainerd Station. Gives an example of Indian's friendship from his travels of 1777 (manuscript). Forwards manuscript materials on Indian languages, including: Remarks on the Swedish Lenape; Mohawk dictionary, probably of Pyrlaeus, from Moravian archives [Mahicanni manuscript not included]. Regarding Butrick and Brown Cherokee spelling book--can't comprehend alphabet used as he had in 1773 taken Cherokee in standard alphabet. Only Iroquois and Wyandot are difficult.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Taíno includes: Arawak
Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka
Lokono includes: Arawak
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:October 7, 1820; June 4, 1818; September 21, 1818; August 12, 1818; July 1, 1819; July 15, 1820
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Ettwein, John, 1721-1802 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Leatherlips, 1732–1810 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:6 letters
Description: Concerning vocabularies of Huron-Wyandot and Delaware. Mentions Steinhauer and Schulz, who has an Arawak dictionary. Heckewelder offers corrections to Du Ponceau's publication. Discusses Leatherlip's Huron-Wyandot identity. Claims Nottoway, Naudowessie, and Huron are the same. Recounts how Tuscarora broke from Haudenosaunee.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1820?
Contributor:Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823
Subject:Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:3 leaves
Description: Collection contains one item of relevance titled "The case of the Brazilian Indians." Compares American and Brazilian Indian policy. Both wish to civilize "barbarians," on the one hand independent, on the other dependent, but free. Original in Library of Congress.
Collection:José Francisco Correia da Serra papers (Mss.B.C81.1)