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Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:Assiniboine | English
Date:1936, 1949
Contributor:Ahenakew, Edward | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Montana--History | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Translations
Extent:64 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items that can be found in the "Assiniboine" section of the finding aid. Deloria's "Notes on the Assiniboine (Belknap or Watopahnatu dialect)" (item X8d.1) contains a sketch of Assiniboine grammar, compared with that of Dakota, and includes an Assiniboine text, with literal and free translation and notes, and a letter from author to Franz Boas, Jan. 6, 1936, covering the document. The other item is Ahenakew's "The creation of a new tribe" (71), an explanation of creation of Assiniboine tribe, separated from Sioux, given Ahenakew in his youth by his mission superintendent, Rev. John Hines, a battle over a girl accounted for end of connection of Red Eagle with other Sioux, and a letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, May 21, 1949, commenting on Rev. Hines' relation to the author.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:circa 1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject:Economic conditions | Folklore | Linguistics | North Dakota--History | South Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:8 folders
Description: The Dakota and Lakota materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of 8 items in Series III. Research materials & notebooks. Six of these items are listed under "Boas, Franz--Dakota" and pertain to various linguistic features, including an incomplete glossary. See also "The story of the beginning as told in the Wakan Wacipi of Dakota" (author unidentified) and "Deloria, Ella - Report for Dr. Boas, re: Capitalism and the Dakota-Sioux."
Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)