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Language:English
Date:1818-1893
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Nanticoke materials at the American Philosophical Society. Includes Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, suggesting that Nanticoke is a variant of Delaware; Du Ponceau to John Vaughan, mentioning the return of Nanticoke, Huron, and vocabularies of 7 languages compared by Heckewelder; R. S. Streeter of the Maryland Historical Society wants a copy of the American Philosophical Society's Nanticoke vocabulary, or copy of folio volume of Vocabularies; and John Sergeant Price to to Henry Phillips regarding A. H. Smyth's resolution [to have Daniel G. Brinton prepare Jefferson's Nanticoke vocabulary for publication].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Date:1792 and undated
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:14 pages
Description: The Nanticoke materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22a, and 22b. These are primarily manuscript Vocabularies in a variety of forms.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Date:1914-1943
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Politics and government | Wampum | Folklore | Maryland--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Nanticoke language, history, and culture. Includes Speck's miscellaneous Nanticoke notes, comprising a letter from Wes (?) to Speck, June 24, 1943, concerning Nanticoke J. Barton Cheyney to Speck, October 31, no year, concerning Delaware-white-Nanticoke relations; James Mooney to Speck, February 15, 1916, concerning Speck's Nanticoke article (1915); Franz Boas to Speck, March 29, 1916, on same subject. [See also Speck (1915).] Other materials include a document describing a meeting of Delaware, Nanticoke, and Canadian Iroquois in the presence of Speck and recounting injustices suffered by Native peoples in the United States and Canada [see also #1755] and Speck's notes on the Tuscarora in Canada, which include names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; and some Nanticoke vocabulary.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:November 20, 1797
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder regarding whether the Pampticangs [Pampticoughs?] and Nanticokes are the same people, suggesting comparison of their languages with possible aid from Zeisberger, and sending publications for Zeisberger and others. [From original in the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Date:1735-1900
Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Subject:Moravians | Moravian Church | Missions | Linguistics | Religion | Social life and customs | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes | Church records
Extent:40 reels
Description: This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Originals in the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Collection:Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform] (Mss.Film.1279)
Culture:
Date:1914-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Place names | Wampum | Folklore | Iroquoian languages | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Tuscarora language, history, and culture. Includes Speck's reading notes on New York State Tuscarora including an undated page of Mattawascheet notes and a 1930s letter to Speck from Alfred Irving Hallowell concerning Nanticoke and Tuscarora; four pages of geographical terms secured at Six Nations Reserve labeled "Canadian Tuscarora Words"; and a folder labeled "Notes on Canadian Tuscarora," which includes names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; and some Nanticoke vocabulary.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Saponi includes: Saponny
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Catawba includes: Iswa
Language:Meskwaki | Algonquin | Mohawk | Naskapi | Catawba | Pamunkey | Carib | Miami-Illinois | Tuscarora | Seneca | Nai | English
Date:1960s-2000s
Contributor:Dixon, Heriberto | Goddard, Ives, 1941- | Henderson, Thomas S. T. | Beatty, John | Price, John A. | Rudes, Blair A. | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948- | White, John K. | White, Ellanor P. | Wright, Roy | Hamlin, Newton Burgess | Pearson, Bruce L., 1932-
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notes
Extent:ca. 15 folders
Description: The Bruce L. Pearson Papers includes files relating to various languages and/or peoples that were outside of his main research scope, primarily on linguistics topics. These are especially throughout Series VI. Other subject files, as well as in Series VII and Series VIII, and are just one or two files per language or culture listed in this guide entry.
Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)