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Language:English
Date:1777-1950, bulk 1914-1950
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Newhouse, Seth | Buck, John L. | Séguin, Robert-Lionel | Wallace, Paul A. W. | Ioma, John | Moses, Jesse | Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940 | Deardorff, Merle H., 1890-1971 | Hill, David
Subject:Ethnography | Anthropology | Wampum | Religion | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Rites and ceremonies | Government relations | Warfare | Hunting | Agriculture | Population | Museums | Material culture | Art
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Drafts | Notes | Essays
Extent:23 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Haudenosaunee history, language, and culture. Includes correspondence with Haudenosaunee consultants like John L. Buck, Seth Newhouse, Josiah Hill, David S. Hill, etc., on topics ranging from the seizure of wampum by the Canadian government, Newhouse's request that Speck secure wampum for him, Newhouse's offer to sell Speck his history manuscript, which he has been working on since 1885 [#1650], Haudenosaunee burial customs, religion, etc.; an essay by Jesse Moses titled "The Long-House man, a Six Nations Indian of Canada speaks his mind," about the relationship of Christianity and the long-house religion; Speck's correspondence with William N. Fenton, principally concerning field work among the Catawba, Cherokee, and Houma but also touching on Fenton's Seneca field work, Speck's various studies of the Haudenosaunee, and the Second Conference on Iroquois Research; correspondence with other anthropologists about various aspects of Haudenosaunee history and culture such as material culture specimens, archaeology, historical sources, agriculture, education, warfare, religion, population statistics, etc.; a draft of Speck's "Reflections on Iroquois religion" and related correspondence; an undated document describing a meeting of Delaware, Nanticoke, and Canadian Iroquois in the presence of Speck and recounting the injustices suffered by Indians in United States and Canada; a copy of a 1777 treaty made by Peter F. Timothy, a Moravian Delaware, in August 1888, and transmitted to Speck by Jesse Moses; and Speck's research notes and other miscellaneous correspondence on topics such as masks, art, museum specimens, hunting territory, chiefships, words, warfare with the Abenaki, the Delaware-as-women theme, academic publications and conferences, etc.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
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Date:1881; 1895; 1909; 1932
Contributor:Cuoq, J. A. (Jean André), 1821-1898 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Fogelson, Raymond D. | Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896 | Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971 | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:History | Treaties | Warfare | Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Religion | Cosmology | Ethnography | Population
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Grammars | Vocabularies
Extent:178 pages
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are confined mostly to Series III, subsection C, "Texts." On interest are early historical accounts from the 17th century; accounts by Iroquois informants; and a relatively small amount of linguistic materials.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
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Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1789; 1848; 1917; 1939-1994
Contributor:Snyderman, George S., 1908-2000 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wright, Asher, 1803-1875 | Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964 | Kidd, Kenneth E. | Washington, Fred
Subject:Demographics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Politics and government | Ethnography | Wampum
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Deeds | Censuses | Essays | Minutes
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Snyderman Papers include folders labelled by author in Series I from William Fenton, Alexander General, Helen Harris, and Frank Speck, which contain correspondence concerning wampum belts in museum collections and related topics. In Series II there is a deed from 1796, an article about Condolence Ceremonies, and Six Nations (Haudenosaunee) Council Minutes from 1848. See also the separate entries in this guide for Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, and Seneca materials in the Snyderman Papers.
Collection:George S. Snyderman Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.51)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:December 7, 1822
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Thanks him for publication on agriculture. Discusses Indian origin of place-name Schenectady.
Collection:George William Featherstonhaugh Papers (Mss.B.F31)
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Language:English
Date:1795
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835 | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 | Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836
Subject:Missions | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Government relations | Brotherton Indians | New England--History | Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Correspondence | Censuses
Extent:142 pages
Description: Materials compiled by Pennsylvania Quaker missionary Halliday Jackson. Titled "Negotiations with the Indians of Pennsylvania by the Society of Friends to 1795," this assemblage contains a census of Native groups; miscellaneous information about various Native peoples; a verbatim collection of previous speeches and messages to and from various Native groups; letters from Timothy Pickering, Jasper Parrish [or Parish], and Isadore Chapin; and a discussion of various Iroquoian, Stockbridge, Brotherton, etc., peoples. Mention of Connediu (Handsome Lake). Original in possession of Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Collection:Halliday Jackson journal, 1814 (Mss.Film.631b)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1749-1759
Contributor:Hamilton, James, 1710-1783 | Montour, Andrew | Stobo, Robert, 1726-1770 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760 | Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Morris, Robert Hunter, approximately 1700-1764 | Great Britain. Board of Trade | Sharpe, Horatio, 1718-1790 | Post, Christian Frederick, 1710?-1785 | Shirley, William, 1694-1771
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Diplomacy | Treaties | Warfare | Indian captivities | Land transfers | Land claims | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Minutes | Journals | Reports
Extent:19 items
Description: Various items relating to Haudenosaunee-Pennsylvania relations, largely in the 1750s. Topics include need for colonial governments to renew the covenant chain; death of Tanaghrisson (Seneca, also called the Half King) suspected to be witchcraft; the diplomatic work of Scarroyady (Oneida, also called Monacatootha and the Half King), especially as a go-between between the Haudenosaunee and Pennsylvania; the Albany Plan of Union; a conference with Caughnawagas [Kahnawakes] and negotiations for the redemption of an Indian held prisoner by the Caughnawagas; drunken conduct of Andrew Montour; Conrad Weiser's dealings with the family of Shickellamy (Oneida); John Lidieus's purchase of Susquehanna lands from the Haudenosaunee for Connecticut; George Croghan's meeting at Logstown with Haudenosaunee and Shawnees; a document prepared for Governor Hamilton listing events, letters, resolutions, and behavior of Miamis and other Indians toward Haudenosaunee, Ohio lands, etc.; 1754 appointment of John Penn, Richard Peters, Benjamin Franklin as Commissioners of Pennsylvania to a list of Haudenosaunee people present at the 1758 Treaty of Easton; and Christian Frederick Post on Indian character.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:French | Iroquoian (macrolanguage) | Algonquin | Algonquian | Mohawk
Date:1768-1879 and undated
Contributor:Guichart, Vincent-Fleuri, 1729-1793 | Marcoux, Joseph, 1791-1855 | Plessis, Joseph Octave, 1763-1825
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Translations
Extent:5 items
Description: These manuscripts include dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, prayers, canticles, Bible tales and religious instructions prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. From originals at the Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
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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:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language:English
Date:September 1, 1848
Contributor:Heckewelder, Johanna Maria
Subject:New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Photocopy of letter to Lyman Copeland Draper. Original in State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Author has no information from her father's papers about date of murder of Logan's family. States her father did not write "Notes of an old officer" in National Gazette. She possesses some books on Indians from 1742, 1759, which she will lend Draper.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder papers (Mss.B.H35)
Culture:
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language:English
Date:April 19, 1756
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Diplomacy | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763
Type:Text
Extent:10 pages
Description: "Substance of an occasional conversation with several Indians after dinner at Israel Pemberton's." Those present include Scarroyady (Oneida), Jonathan Konachtogo (a Cayuga), and other Indians; members of Pemberton family; and interpreters Conrad Weiser, Andrew Montour, and Daniel Claus.
Collection:Manuscripts on Indian affairs (Mss.970.4.M415)