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Field notes, 1978, for Central Alaskan Yupik, Chevak dialect

Culture:

Yup'ik includes: Yupik, Yupiit, Yup'ik, Central Alaskan, Eskimo (pej.)

Cup'ik includes: Yupik

Language:English | Cup'ik, Chevak

Date:1978

Contributor:Woodbury, Anthony C.

Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Warfare

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories

Extent:9 microfiche cards

Description: Field notes accompanying linguistic field recordings made in Chevak, Alaska. The notes are contained in three notebooks, and include Yupik words, phrases, and texts.

Collection:Field notes, 1978, for Central Alaskan Yupik, Chevak dialect (Mss.Fiche.13)

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Fieldwork in the Menominee language

Culture:

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Language:English | Menominee

Date:1999-2000

Type:Sound recording

Extent:11 audiocassettes (10 hr., 11 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Linguistic recordings with Menominee speakers, focusing on negative forms, autobiographical and traditional stories, word lists, and conversations. Also includes some songs and prayers. Access to this collection is currently restricted by request of the Menominee Tribe.

Collection:Fieldwork in the Menominee language (Mss.Rec.254)

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Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials

Culture:

Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco

Language:Chontal, Highland Oaxaca | Spanish

Date:1968

Contributor:Flores, Damian | Flores, Porfirio Nicolas | Turner, Paul R., 1929- | Zárate, Clemente

Subject:Folklore | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories

Extent:4 sound tape reels (2 hr., 58 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Field recordings made in San Matias Petacaltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in the September of 1968, with consultants Damian Flores (age 25), Clemente Zarate (47), and Porfirio Nicolas Flores (90). Folkloric, ethnohistorical, and autobiographical stories and discussions, some in Spanish only, some in Highland Chontal only. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials (Mss.Rec.66)

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Ho-Chunk materials, Paul Radin papers

Culture:

Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk

Language:English | Ho-Chunk

Date:1908-1930 and undated

Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Blowsnake, Sam

Type:Text

Extent:49 items

Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) history, culture, and language. Some items are written in Ho-Chunk, with and without English translations. This large collection includes 34 original field notebooks; numerous short and long stories (Hare cycle, Aleck Linetree [probably Alec Lone Tree], the origin of the Buffalo clan, the story of the holy one, the boy who wished to be immortal, etc.); several longer pieces, such as a typed manuscript titled "The legend of Mother-of-all-the-Earth," speeches of Charlie Houghton, multiple versions of "How Blowsnake joined the medicine dance," "Origin myth of the medicine dance," etc.; several published secondary sources; over 3,000 slips for an English-Winnebago [i.e. Ho-Chunk] dictionary and other items relating to Ho-Chunk phonetics, lexicon, linguistics, etc.; several phonetic texts, some with English translation; and a variety of other items with ethnographic, historical, and linguistic data pertaining to ceremonies, tales, clans, medicine, origins, dance, burial, peyote, names, and sweat-baths. Individuals mentioned (some as ) include: Jacob Russell, Charlie Houghton, Oliver LaMere, Sam Blowsnake, John Rave, Thomas Clay, Robert Lincoln, James Smith, Tom Big Bear, and George Ricehill.

Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)

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Isleta Tiwa material

Culture:

Isleta includes: Tiwa

Language:English | Tiwa, Southern

Date:1965

Contributor:Long, Ronald W.

Subject:Folklore | New Mexico--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 50 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Four folkloric stories and one personal narrative about the consultant's father given in the Isleta dialect of Tiwa, with accompanying English translations as stories are played back to the same consultant, Mrs. Jojola. Also includes grammatical eliciations. Recorded at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, in the summer of 1965. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Isleta Tiwa material (Mss.Rec.57)

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Kalapuya materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Kalapuya

Language:English | Kalapuya

Date:1915-1930

Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Kenoy, Louis

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:430 pages

Description: The Kalapuya material in the ACLS collection is concentrated primarily in the "Kalapuya" section of the finding aid, which contains several manuscripts relating to Kalapuya language, folklore, and ethnology, primarily recorded by Leo Frachtenberg and Jaime de Angulo. Additional materials can also be found in the "Tualatin" (also known as Atfalati/Wapato Lake) section of the finding aid, which includes autobiographical stories and linguistic analyses.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Legends, etc., collected among the Hare Indians, Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada

Culture:

K’ásho Got’ıné includes: Hare

Language:English | Slavey, North

Date:1961-1962

Subject:Folklore | Food | Hunting | Northwest Territories--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:9 sound tape reels (14 hr.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Field recordings made at Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, in the summers of 1961 and 1962. Includes vocabulary and phrase lists relating to hunting, animals, berry-picking, material culture, place names, health, and body parts; songs; autobiographical stories; animal stories; conversations with children. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Legends, etc., collected among the Hare Indians, Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada (Mss.Rec.38)

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Mandan-Hidatsa Ethnohistory and Linguistics

Culture:

Mandan includes: Nueta

Hidatsa includes: Hiratsa, Hiraacá, Gros Ventre, Minnetaree

Language:English | Hidatsa | Mandan

Date:1969

Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Eagle, Annie Crows Heart | Otter Sage, Mrs. | Stevenson, Rufus

Subject:Folklore | Medicine | North Dakota--History | Religion | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories

Extent:19 sound tape reels (155 hr., 29 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Primarily consists of autobiographical stories, creation stories, and medicine stories collected by Alfred W. Bowers in earlier decades. The stories are read in segments in Bowers' English translation to two native consultants, who then translate the material into both Mandan and Hidatsa, or occasionally into either Mandan or Hidatsa alone. A small number of stories are told in Mandan only. Also includes English discussions of the Mandan and Hidatsa domestic life, material culture, personal reminscences, and histories of the Crow-Flies-High Band and the Fort Buford and Fort Berthold settlements. Bowers' original table of contents also available. Recorded at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, in 1969. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Mandan-Hidatsa Ethnohistory and Linguistics (Mss.Rec.81)

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Material on Iroquois Dialects and Languages

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Cherokee

Date:1950

Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories

Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: This collections consists of texts in several Iroquoian languages (Cayuga, Cherokee, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora) recorded and played back to other speakers to test the mutual intelligibility of the languages for various speakers. The recordings comprise numerous texts in these languages, administered mutual intelligibility tests, stories, and conversations, all predominantly untranslated. Originally recorded on wire in the fall of 1950 at various locations in the United States and Canada. Later copied to sound tape reels. The Native speakers involved in these recordings are as follows. The Cayuga language speaker was Jane Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Cherokee speaker was David Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Mohawk speakers were Ernest Benedict and Sadie Curlyhead, recorded at Akwesasne (Saint Regis), and Ernest Benedict and Mr. & Mrs. Charles Benedict, recorded at Akwesasne (Cornwall, Ontario). The Oneida speakers were Harry Antone, Betsy Antone, Rosa Antone, Billy Antone, and Mr. & Mrs. Chapman Schanandoah, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and Albert Christian, recorded at Nedrow (N.Y.) The Onondaga speakers were Louis Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and George Thomas, Jr., Percy Smoke, Thomas Lewis, Pat Homer, and Floyd Henhawk, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Seneca speakers were as follows: Annie Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.); a Mr. & Mrs. Smith, recorded at the Oneida Nation of the Thames in southwestern Ontario; Richard Johnny John, Colline Johnny John, Amos Johnny John, Lena Snow, Kenneth Snow, Albert Jones, Hubert Cusick, Lynn Dowdy, Henry Redeye, Elver Jacobs, and Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Jimerson, recorded at the Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Jesse Cornplanter and Solon Skye, recorded at the Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Tuscarora speakers were Nellie Gansworth and William Mt. Pleasant, recorded at the Tuscarora Indian Reservation (N.Y.) (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Material on Iroquois Dialects and Languages (Mss.Rec.13)

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Ojibwe materials, Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Chippewa | Ojibwa, Northwestern

Date:1932-1949

Type:Text | Cartographic | Still Image

Description: The Ojibwe materials in the A. Irving Hallowell Papers are extensive. Hallowell focused on three regions of Ojibwe territory: Berens River in north, central Canada (Pikangikum, Pauingassi, Poplar River; Little Grand Rapids First Nations) and Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin. Hallowell was particularly interested in psychological anthropology. Both the Berens River and Lac du Flambeau materials in Series V, for example, includes ethnographic information on taboos, incest regulations, Rorschach tests, dreams, and acculturation. Hallowell's interests in traditional knowledge are represented by descriptions of the practice of the Midewiwin religion; traditional stories about Wisakedjak and Tcakabec/Chakabesh, Memegwesiug, Windigos, and Thunderbirds. Of particular interest in the Lac du Flambeau materials are hundred of pages of family biographies in Series V and photographs with the names of community members in Series VI, Subseries B. Of particular interest in the Berens River materials are maps of traditional hunting grounds, a diagram of Ojibwe cosmology, an autobiography by Hallowell's collaborator Chief William Berens, 29 folders of "Saulteaux Indians--Myths and Tales" all in Series V. There are hundreds of photographs from the region, with many community members identified, and all digitized, in Series VI, Subseries A. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Robert Ritzenhaler's description of a shaking tent ceremony by Ojibwe in Wisconsin; a detailed account of Joseph Fiddler's trial for murdering a windigo in the folder labled Royal Canadian Mounted Police; papers sent by Morton Teicher detailing incidents of windigo in Canada (50+ pages); a letter from Frances Densmore describing a shaking tent ceremony; and several letters from Chief William Berens providing information about Ojibwe people in the photographs in Series VI.

Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)