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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:1820-1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English | Mapuche | Quechua | Poqomam | Carib | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Wampanoag | Wyandot
Date:1822
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 vol., 35 p.
Description: This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine vocabularies of Indigenous languages of the Americas, such as "Aztec" (Nahuatl), Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources, of South and North American languages: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.]
Collection:Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum (Mss.498.R27)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:September 21, 1822; November 22, 1895
Subject:Linguistics | Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter from September 21, 1822 to Johann S. Vater, thanking Vater for has received his Brasilian catechism. Forwards publication and manuscript copy of Sagard's Huron vocabulary. Letter from November 22, 1895 to George Henry Horn, written from Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Notice of having sent a manuscript, "Jasper and Stalagmite Quarried by Indians in the Wyandotte Cave." See also Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 34 (1895): 396-400.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Date:1960s-2000s, bulk 1994-2000s
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932- | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Smith, Richard Zane | Andrews, Sallie Cotter | Chafe, Wallace L. | Bearskin, Leaford | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948-
Subject:Oklahoma--History | Linguistics
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Songs | Notes | Photographs | Vocabularies
Extent:ca. 1 linear foot
Description: The bulk of the Wyandot materials in the Bruce L. Pearson Papers are in Series III. Wyandot, reflecting Pearson's work with the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. There is also notable correspondence in Series VI with Wes Taukchiray, and with John Bierhorst, and a folder of students' essays in Series VII. Pearson did not conduct fieldwork on Wendat, but conducted historical research and analysis. Of note are compiled vocabularies and language analysis, community publications, conference presentations, a speech by Leaford Bearskin, and some interpretations of the documentation of Marius Barbeau, including songs on CD sung by Richard Zane Smith. There is a small amount of comparative material with Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga and Maya in Series III.
Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)
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Date:1885; 1941-1996
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Pendergast, James F., 1921-2000 | Richards, Cara B. | Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2004 | Goddard, Ives, 1941- | Wilson, Daniel, Sir, 1816-1892
Subject:Architecture | Religion | Linguistics | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Kinship | Ethnography
Type:Text | Sound recording | Cartographic
Description: The Wyandot materials in the Lounsbury Papers are located mostly in Series II and consist primarily of secondary sources. Topics range from comparative Iroquois phonology to early French exploration.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Translations
Extent:194 frames
Description: Dictionnaire Huron-Iroquois, avec sous-titres en Francais. A to V. Arranged in parallel columns. Huron and Onondaga words compared, together with French translations. Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Language:English
Date:July 22, 1816
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Regarding Wyandot-Huron and Carver.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Susquehannock includes: Conestoga
Date:Undated
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Potier, Pierre-Philippe, 1708-1781
Subject:Linguistics | Jesuits | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Warfare | Politics and government | Diplomacy
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Vocabularies
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Wyandot (Huron) language, history, and culture. Items include Wallace's 8-page "Who Were the Hurons' Allies of 1615?" in which he concludes that the unnamed allies who were to aid Champlain and the Hurons probably were Susquehannocks; and eighteenth-century missionary Pierre-Philippe Potier's Huron-French vocabulary, from a document possibly in the archives of St. Mary's College, Montreal.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Date:1650-1762 and undated
Contributor:Chaumonot, Pierre Joseph Marie, 1611-1693 | Girault de Villeneuve, Étienne Pierre Thomas, 1718-1794 | Picard, Paul Tsa8enhohi
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Canticles | Prayers | Chants | Dictionaries
Extent:8 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These items include canticles, chants, prayers, and dictionaries in the Wyandot language (called Huron by the Jesuits). There is also an item labeled "Notes et manuscrits divers," attributed to Girault de Villeneuve, missionary with the Hurons at Jeune Lorette near Quebec, which includes prayers, "predications," a 1762 manuscript titled "Des Missions," and "Une breve histoire des Hurons." Originals are at the Bibliotheque de la Legislature, Province de Quebec, and originals of all other items are at Laval University, Seminaire de Quebec. See also Barbeau (1949) and Barbeau (1960).
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)