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Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:n.d., 1830-1833, before 1839
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | James, Edwin, 1797-1861
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars
Extent:1 volume
Description: Printed sheets pasted into volume; manuscript notes by Peter S. Du Ponceau.
Collection:Conjugation of the verb "to hear" in its various forms in the Chippeway language (Mss.497.J23)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Date:1831-1886
Contributor:Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874 | James, Edwin, 1797-1861 | Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899 | McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Dance | Ethnography | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Dictionaries
Extent:10 items
Description: Materials relating to Ojibwe language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include George Antoine Belcourt's French-Ojibwe dictionary, particularly plans for its the presentation of Belcourt's memoir by the Smithsonian; a recent fire at the Smithsonian requiring $200,000 in repair work; Edwin James' Chippewa New Testament and his desire to publish a Chippewa grammar under the auspices of the APS; Walter James Hoffman's work at White Earth, Minnesota, where observed the Grand Medicine (Medawin) dance in detail and collected pictographic records of same on birch bark; Thomas L. McKenney's donation of a manuscript of McKenney (1827), out of respect to John Vaughan and the APS. Other individuals mentioned include Stephen H. Long, Ferdinand V. Hayden, J. Peter Lesley, Pliny E. Chase, and Judge William C. Frazer (Superior County, Wisconsin Territory).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Date:1827
Contributor:James, Edwin, 1797-1861
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: A brief discussion of location and the language, with list of Menominee words beginning with "A."
Collection:Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language (Mss.970.1.J23)