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Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Wells, Herman B
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Iroquoian languages | Folklore | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Stories | Grammars
Extent:6 folders
Description: There are some materials relating to Iroquoian languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials labeled as "Iroquois" or "Iroquoian." Researchers should also view the entries for specific Iroquoian languages and culture groups (i.e., Oneida, Seneca, Cherokee). Iroquoian materials are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with Floyd Lounsbury (regarding Oneida, Seneca, and Cherokee work) and Herman B Wells (to William Fenton regarding sending Voegelin to the Iroquois Conference accompanied by slips of notes including potential language consultants including Leroy Cooper, Sherman and Clara Red Eye, Jesse Cornplanter, and Will Bomberry) in Series I. Correspondence; and one folder each of Iroquois (an exam bluebook containing notes on Iroquois history, documentary sources, and some words) and Siouan-Iroquois material (a word list) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. In Subcollection II, there are Ojibwe stories about the Iroquois people (Haudenosaunee) titled "Iroquois War near Spanish River," "War with the Iroquois," and "Another Iroquois attack repulsed" in Ojibwe Texts IV, an arrangement of texts by Leonard Bloomfield located in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian. Finally, there is a folder of Iroquoian materials in Subseries IV. Macro-Siouan, also of Series II. Research Notes.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Date:1900-1951
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Ontario--History | Québec (Province)--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Personal names | Essays | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:1380 pages
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. This item has been fully digitized and can be viewed online. See also an accompanying audio collection (Mss.Rec.10), listed separately in this guide, in which Cooke reads the majority of the names.
Collection:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)
Culture:
Date:1950
Contributor:Antone, Betsy | Antone, Billy | Antone, Harry | Antone, Rosa | Benedict, Charles | Benedict, Charles, Mrs. | Benedict, Ernest | Christian, Albert | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Curlyhead, Sadie | Cusick, Herbert | Dowdy, Lynn | Gansworth, Nellie | Henhawk, Floyd | Hickerson, Harold, 1923- | Homer, Pat | Jacobs, Elver | Jimerson, Laurence | Jimerson, Laurence, Mrs. | Johnny John, Amos | Johnny John, Colline | Johnny John, Richard | Jones, Albert | Lewis, Thomas | Lyons, Annie | Lyons, Louis | Mt. Pleasant, William | Owl, David | Owl, Jane | Redeye, Henry | Schanandoah, Chapman | Schanandoah, Chapman, Mrs. | Skye, Solon | Smith, Mr. | Smith, Mrs. | Smoke, Percy | Snow, Kenneth | Snow, Lena | Thomas, George, Jr.
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories
Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collections consists of texts in several Iroquoian languages (Cayuga, Cherokee, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora) recorded and played back to other speakers to test the mutual intelligibility of the languages for various speakers. The recordings comprise numerous texts in these languages, administered mutual intelligibility tests, stories, and conversations, all predominantly untranslated. Originally recorded on wire in the fall of 1950 at various locations in the United States and Canada. Later copied to sound tape reels. The Native speakers involved in these recordings are as follows. The Cayuga language speaker was Jane Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Cherokee speaker was David Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Mohawk speakers were Ernest Benedict and Sadie Curlyhead, recorded at Akwesasne (Saint Regis), and Ernest Benedict and Mr. & Mrs. Charles Benedict, recorded at Akwesasne (Cornwall, Ontario). The Oneida speakers were Harry Antone, Betsy Antone, Rosa Antone, Billy Antone, and Mr. & Mrs. Chapman Schanandoah, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and Albert Christian, recorded at Nedrow (N.Y.) The Onondaga speakers were Louis Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and George Thomas, Jr., Percy Smoke, Thomas Lewis, Pat Homer, and Floyd Henhawk, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Seneca speakers were as follows: Annie Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.); a Mr. & Mrs. Smith, recorded at the Oneida Nation of the Thames in southwestern Ontario; Richard Johnny John, Colline Johnny John, Amos Johnny John, Lena Snow, Kenneth Snow, Albert Jones, Hubert Cusick, Lynn Dowdy, Henry Redeye, Elver Jacobs, and Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Jimerson, recorded at the Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Jesse Cornplanter and Solon Skye, recorded at the Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Tuscarora speakers were Nellie Gansworth and William Mt. Pleasant, recorded at the Tuscarora Indian Reservation (N.Y.) (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Material on Iroquois Dialects and Languages (Mss.Rec.13)
Culture:
Date:circa 1930s-1960s
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Preston, W. D. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Cooper, Leroy
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Iroquoian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Stories | Essays | Translations | Grammars
Extent:12 folders, 1 box
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain notes, texts, articles, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Seneca language and culture. These are located primarily in Subcollection I of the Voegelin Papers. Materials in Subcollection I include relevant correspondence with Floyd Lounsbury (regarding Oneida, Seneca, and Cherokee work) in Series I. Correspondence; 1 box of Ojibwa [Ojibwe], Seneca, and Penobscot notes in Series II. "Seneca I" with W.D. Preston in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; a folder of Seneca linguistic notes in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; 7 folders of unbound Seneca texts and grammatical notes in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; and 2 folders of Seneca notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. Each of the latter two folders contains one of Voegelin's field notebooks, only partially full, and identify Leroy Cooper as his consultant.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Date:1946-1991
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Greene, Elton | Mithun, Marianne | Rudes, Blair A. | Crouse, Dorothy | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Kenohenyo, Nora Carrier | Printup, Marjorie | Smith, Dan | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Gansworth, Nellie
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Folklore | Ethnography | New York (State)--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Description: The Tuscarora materials in the Lounsbury Papers include a dictionary by Chief Elton Greene, J.N.B. Hewitt's Tuscarora version of the Seneca Cosmology, and Blair Rudes's notes as he was developing his Tuscarora Dictionary in Series II. The recordings in Series VII include Lounsbury's work with Tuscarora speaker and teacher Marjorie Printup, which includes work on grammar, stories with explanations, Christian phrases, pedagogy, and reminiscences, etc. Also included are a significant number of tapes Lounsbury made with Tuscarora speaker Nellie Gansworth, many unidentified.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)