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Culture:
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Date:1934
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Atakapa materials in the ACLS collection consist of "Atakapa fragments recorded from descendants of speakers" (item G5.1) found in the "Atakapa" section of the finding aid. This item is a fragmentary list of Atakapa terms with English equivalents, recorded near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:circa 1970-1979 and undated
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Mississippi--History | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Drafts | Reviews | Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's interest in the Biloxi and Ofo languages. Materials consist of three folders. There is an undated Biloxi-Ofo bibliography in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other; "Biloxi, Ofo, and Yuchi" [1970], a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society in Series III-B. Works by Crawford--Yuchi; and a folder of drafts, page proofs, and a tear sheet of James M. Crawford's joint review in "American Anthropologist" of "The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages" by Wallace L. Chafe, "A Grammar of Biloxi" by Paula Ferris Einaudi, "A Grammar of Pawnee" by Douglas R. Parks, and "Wichita Grammar" by David S. Rood, located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | English
Date:1930-1935, 1939, 1950
Contributor:Dardin, Sadie | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Genealogies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories | Field notes | Dictionaries
Extent:5,000 slips, 1,546 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in the ACLS collection consists of an extensive body of materials recorded by Morris Swadesh. These are located in the "Chitimacha" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Noteworthy materials include Swadesh's field notebooks, containing text (on a variety of topics) with interlinear translations, and extensive linguistic analysis of morphology, grammar, and other areas. These also include a brief genealogy. Also in this section are additional texts, and linguistic materials created from the fieldwork materials, such as a draft Chitimacha-English dictionary and a lexical file of over 4000 word slips. See also the single notebook in the "Koasati" section of the finding aid, which contains a French-English-Chitimacha wordlist from Mrs. Sadie Dardin.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Chitimacha
Date:Undated
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:1 folder
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Chitimacha language. Chitimacha materials in the Crawford Papers are located in Series IV-D, Research Notes & Notebooks--Other, and consist of one folder containing six pages of undated notes on Chitimacha history and language, including bibliographic information.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Language:English
Date:1937-1938, 1969
Subject:Education | Fieldwork | Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Oklahoma--History
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 folders
Description: The Choctaw items in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers comprise a report by Mary Haas to Leslie Spier on Choctaw fieldwork (Series I, under Spier) and a newspaper clipping in Series II, Other Languages and Cultures of the Americas series.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Date:1970
Contributor:Abbey, Aron | Celestine, Phoebie | Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Langley, Arzelie | Thomas, Esther
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Music
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:1 hr. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Choctaw material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of recordings in "Series 9: Mobilian" and "Series 14: Yuchi," which contains discussions of Mobilian conducted in part in Choctaw; and Vocabularies recorded along with Koasati and Mobilian. (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:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)
Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Date:1971-1973
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Farmer, Ruth | Martin, Phillip, 1926-2010 | McCall, Mary | Holden, Marjory
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Anthropology | Ethnography | Treaties
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories
Extent:2 folders, 2 boxes
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Choctaw language. Items include card-sized paper slips, Choctaw-English and English-Choctaw, with pencilled notes in Series V. and two folders of Choctaw notebooks in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. Folder 1 contains a field notebook of Choctaw vocabulary and other linguistic material dated to winter 1971-1972. Ruth Farmer is noted as the Choctaw consultant and students Mary McCall, Marjory Holden, and Mr. Chappel are also noted as using the notebook and eliciting information (mostly vocabulary) from the consultant. Folder 2 contains a field notebook dated to 1973, and notes Phillip Martin, Tribal Chairman of Choctaws, as consultant. This notebook deals more with grammar and sentence structure and includes work on a story or history (in both Choctaw and English) revolving around Choctaw laws or treaties, including the observation that the Choctaws (perhaps Martin?) want the laws transcribed from English to Choctaw.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Koasati includes: Coushatta
Date:1970
Contributor:Abbey, Aron | Celestine, Phoebie | Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Langley, Arzelie | Thomas, Esther
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:1 hr., 3 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Koasati material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of recordings in "Series 9: Mobilian" and "Series 14: Yuchi," which contains discussions of Mobilian conducted in part in Koasati, and Vocabularies recorded along with Choctaw and Mobilian. (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:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)
Language:Chickasaw | Choctaw | English | Mobilian | French, Cajun
Date:1970
Contributor:Celestine, Phoebie | Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Langley, Arzelie | Lavan, Leonard | Thomas, Esther
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent:2 hr., 23 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Mobilian material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of two sets of recordings pertaining to Crawford's research into remaining speakers of the Mobilian trade language, or "Mobilian Jargon." One recording is located in "Series 9: Mobilian," which is discussion and inquiry into the language with Arzelie Langley, who is interpreted into English by her granddaughter. This is conducted primarily in Choctaw and Koasati, with some Mobilian words and phrases. A second set of Mobilian recordings are scattered among "Series 14: Yuchi." See especially item 27-11, "Mobilian words and phrases," recorded with speaker Leonard Lavan, which includes conversation about use of the language and remaining speakers. (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:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)
Culture:
Date:1930-1940
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Extent:1032 pages
Description: The Tunica materials in the ACLS collection consists of two items in the Tunica section. "Tunica Grammar" (item G4.1) includes grammar, syntax, illustrative texts, as printed shorter in 1940. "Tunica Texts" (item G4.2) includes texts with free translation and notes, and was printed in 1950. The original, larger fieldwork materials with Sesostrie Youchigant that underly these items are located in the Mary Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)