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Culture:
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Omaha includes: Umoⁿhoⁿ
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Quapaw includes: Arkansas, Ugahxpa
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Kaw includes: Kansa, Kanza
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Aaniiih includes: A'aninin, Atsina, Gros Ventre
Language:English | German | Otomi, Mezquital | Chitimacha | Atakapa | Cherokee | Osage | Chickasaw | Choctaw | Nottoway | Kansa | Omaha-Ponca | Dakota | Pawnee | Nanticoke | Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille | Miami-Illinois | Mi'kmaq | Mikasuki | Quapaw | Yuchi | Delaware | Ojibwe | Shawnee | Seneca | Mohawk | Onondaga | Cayuga | Oneida | Tuscarora | Natchez | Wyandot | Muscogee | Mohegan-Pequot
Date:1798-1821
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Siouan languages | Muskogean languages
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies
Extent:219 pages
Description: This volume contains extracts of Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau. The bulk of the volume is comprised of word list of 54 words with equivalents listed in a range of 50-70 languages. While Barton listed no authority, Du Ponceau cited sources. Languages with words listed include Chitimacha, Atakapa, Cherokee, Osage, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Nottoway, Kansa, Omaha, Dakota, Pawnee, Nanticoke, Gros Ventres, Miami, Mi'kmaq, Seminole, Quapaw, Yuchi, Delaware, Ojibwe, Shawnee, Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora, Natches, Wyandot, Creek, Mahican, Mohegan, and many others. The word list includes the terms for God, heaven, and sky, as well as various terms relating to kinship, parts of the body, weather, and more. The volume also includes notes on sounds of the Otomi (Othomi) observations on declension; observations about the Omaha, Kansa, Oto, Arkansas, and Missouri languages; and notes on symbol and sound. Also includes a newspaper clipping of a review (in German) of Barton's "New Views" that appeared in "Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799.
Collection:A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages (Mss.497.B28)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1932
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Connecticut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Connecticut Indigenous materials in the Fenton papers can be found in Series III, which includes Fenton's 1932 paper, "The Connecticut Algonkians," written for George P. Murdock's course in ethnology at Yale. Additional material may potentially exist among correspondence in Series I.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
Culture:
Language:English | Mohegan-Pequot
Date:circa 1920s, 1971
Subject:Connecticut--History | Linguistics | Population
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies | Notes | Maps | Photographs
Extent:2 folders; 27 photographs
Description: The Mohegan materials in Series V of the A. Irving Hallowell Papers are composed of stories in Mohegan translated into English, brief grammatical notes, two pages of vocabulary, and 2 maps of Native American tribes in Connecticut. See folder in Series V labelled "Mohegan Vocabulary and Text; Falls River Indian Reservation; Iroquois; Other Ethnology Notes." In the folder labled "American Indian #4" in Box 24, Series V, there is an image of Gladys and Harold Tantaquidgeon. In Series VI, Subseries D, there are about 26 photographs identified as Mohegan-related. In Series I, a correspondence folder labelled "Tantaquidgeon, Harold & Gladys," contains a brochure for the Tantaquidgeon Museum from 1971.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Language:English | Mohegan-Pequot
Date:circa 1820s
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:17 pages
Description: The Mohegan materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as item 19, "Mahicanni [Mohegan] words taken down from the mouth of one of that nation who had been born in Connecticut"; items 21 & 22b, "Comparative vocabulary of the Delaware, Minsi, Mohicon, Natick, Chippeway, Shawanoe [i.e. Miami], and Nanticoke languages"; and items 22 & 22a, "Comparative vocabulary of the Lenni Lenape, Mahicanni, Nanticoke, Shawano, Natick, Chippuwa and Algonquin languages"
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Language:English | Mohegan-Pequot
Date:1897-1943
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Butler, Eva L. | Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Place names | Linguistics | Social life and customs | New England--History | Politics and government | Land transfers | Connecticut--History
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Deeds | Pamphlets | Notebooks | Drafts | Stories | Vocabularies | Translations | Maps
Extent:11 folders, 30 photos
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Mohegan language, history, and culture. Includes Mohegan miscellaneous notes and correspondence from 1916-1943 including commentary on Fidelia Fielding's Texts, notes for 1920 Pequot trip with Nehantic and Pennacook notes, letters from the Honorable Thomas W. Bicknell to Speck concerning Indians in Rhode Island, notes on Mohegan social organization, 1 page of incomplete letter of Red Wing concerning Indian affairs, miscellaneous Stockbridge notes, George Heye to Speck regarding publication, John R. Swanton to Speck concerning his exhibition for Mohegan Stockbridge, postal card from Princess Pretty War regarding dress, Ernest E. Rogers to Speck regarding Speck's Mohegan-Pequot Diary, etc.; Pequot miscellaneous notes and correspondence from 1922-1941 including two cards with Mohegan names, 7 pages of reading notes, 1 page of animal names, a letter from Harral Ayres to the Smithsonian Institution concerning Connecticut place names, and a letter from Gertrude Bell Browne to Speck concerning seventeenth-century Pequot-Mohegan Mohegan-Pequot texts and vocabulary materials, notes and drafts relating to Speck (1928a); letters to his mother concerning his activities among Indians at Mohegan, Connecticut; copy for a news release on a Mohegan election; correspondence with Gladys Tantaquidgeon; "Mohegan Land Deeds," a pamplet containing 22 seventeenth-century deeds signed by Mohegans, taken from Connecticut archival sources; 21 cards with notes on trees and uses of their products; Prince's 1907 letter of recommendation for Speck, discussing Speck's work, as a student, on the Pequot dialect of Mohegan-Pequots, Algic, and Yuchi; and Ward's correspondence with Speck regarding the printing of extra copies of Speck's Nanticoke study by the Historical Society of Delaware. Some manuscripts written by Gladys Tantaquidgeon, not about Mohegan matters, have been identified among Speck's notes on the Delaware, Wampanoag, and Innu. There may be other manuscripts in the collection written by hand but not yet identified. In Series III (Photographs), there are about 30 Mohegan-related photographs, some possibly taken by Gladys Tantaquidgeon. In Series IV (Lantern slides), there are 9 images, some of which may be duplicate images of those among the general photos. Lastly, Series V (Maps) contains a small number of maps of Mohegan lands.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English | Mohegan-Pequot
Date:1756-1787; 1903
Contributor:Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Dictionaries
Description: The Mohegan materials in the Siebert Papers are limited to an 18th century Vocabularies and Siebert's collection of Mohegan-Pequot and Montauk vocabulary. See Series IV and VII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1983, 1990
Contributor:Simmons, William S. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Weinstein-Farson, Laurie
Subject:Connecticut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Essays | Interviews | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:97 pages
Description: The Mohegan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Simmons and Weinstein-Farson.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1990
Contributor:Cooney, Roberta | Schultz, Larry | Sturges, Ralph | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
Subject:Connecticut--History | Education | Politics and government | Powwows | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews
Extent:6 sound tape reels (2 hr., 45 min.)
Description: Interviews with Mohegan elders regarding various aspects 20th-century Mohegan history, recorded in Connecticut in 1990.
Collection:Mohegan Oral Histories (Mss.Rec.162)
Culture:
Language:English | Narragansett
Date:1916-1926
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | New England--History | Anthropometry | Social life and customs | Picture-writing | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Narragansett language, history, and culture. Includes a one-page report on "Physical measurements of the Narragansett male," based on an individual described as 1/4 Nehantic and 1/2 Brotherton (Narragansett); and Speck's miscellaneous Narragansett notes, comprised of a comparative vocabulary of Massachusetts, Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot, and Naugatuck (approximately 30 items), 3 vocabulary lists on cards, 1 page of names, and a letter from Edmund B. Delabarre to Speck, May 6, 1920, regarding the author's preference of Cherokee to Narragansett as explanation of origin of characters on Rhode Island stone. Images note: newspaper clipping photographs peace pipe, native attire, tipi.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Wenrohronon includes: Wenro
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Saponi includes: Saponny
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1957
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:20 pages
Description: The Pennsylvania Indians materials, John Alden Mason Papers include a document written for the Pennsylvania Historical Commission, regarding the Delaware, Susquehannock, Erie, Wenrohronon, Honniasont, and the transitory Mohegan, Seneca, Oneida, Wyandot, Ottawa, Tuscarora, Saponi, Tutelo, Nanticokes, Conoy, Shawnee, and Munsee.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)