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Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Yuchi includes: Euchee
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
Kaw includes: Kansa, Kanza
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Aaniiih includes: A'aninin, Atsina, Gros Ventre
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
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:
Unkechaug includes: Unquachog
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Language:Algonquin | Delaware | Unami | Munsee | Nanticoke | Ojibwe | Cree | Shawnee | Mahican | Quiripi | Oneida | Cayuga | Onondaga | Miami-Illinois | Cherokee | Chickasaw | Choctaw | Muscogee | Tuscarora | Chitimacha
Date:n.d., 1792-1808?; 1802-1808
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: 4 pages of words from Jefferson's standard form, with equivalents in Mohiccon and three other languages numbered as 1, 6, 7 (Mohiccon), and 8. A comparative vocabulary of 22 languages, arranged tabularly to follow Jefferson's standard printed vocabulary form. Languages include Delaware, Unami, Monsi, Chippewa, Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Tawa, Shawanee, Nanticoke, Mohiccon, Unkechaug, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Miami, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Tuscarora, Chetimacha, and Atacapa.
Collection:Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (Mss.497.J35)
Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:French | Miami-Illinois
Date:n.d., circa 1720?
Contributor:Boulanger, Jean Baptiste le, 1685-1740
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: Original in John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. French-Miami dictionary, alphabetical by the French; 46 pages of texts, including prayers, catechism, scripture. Conjugations and declensions.
Collection:French and Miami-Illinois dictionary (Mss.497.33.L49)
Culture:
Language:English | Menominee | Cree | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Miami-Illinois
Date:1964-1975
Contributor:Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Miner, Kenneth L., (Kenneth Lee), 1936- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Animals | Botany | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Reviews | Vocabularies
Description: The Menomini materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and VII. Siebert's work on the Menomini can be found in a notebook in Series V that contains material related to Cree, Ojibwa, and Penobscot. Vocabulary lists of insects, birds, animals, fish, trees, berries, plants, and relationships.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:English | Meskwaki | Cree | Abenaki, Eastern | Shawnee | Menominee | Miami-Illinois | Ojibwe | Cherokee | Quapaw
Date:1945-1992
Contributor:Dahlstrom, Amy | Geary, James A. | Goddard, Ives, 1941- | Hewson, John, 1930- | Jolley, Catherine A. | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Dictionaries
Description: The Meskwaki materials in the Siebert collection are listed under the term "Fox" and can be found in Series IV, V, VII. Much of the material consists of secondary sources, although there is some material in Siebert's notebooks (Series V). Siebert's interest in Meskwaki was primarily in terms of comparative linguistics.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:Mi'kmaq | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy | Miami-Illinois | Abenaki, Eastern | Ojibwe
Date:1856-1857; 1913-1915; 1938-1955; 1974-1985
Contributor:Fidelholtz, James L., (James Lawrence), 1941- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Hewson, John, 1930- | Metallic, Alphonse | DeBlois, Albert D.. | Pacifique, père, 1863-1943 | Alger, Abby Langdon | Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Vetromile, Eugene, 1819-1881 | Denny, J. Peter | Morrison, Alvin Hamblen | Perro, Peter | Perro, Sophie | Proulx, Paul
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | Dance
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies | Interviews | Photographs | Essays | Stories | Songs
Description: The Mi'kmaq materials in the Siebert Papers contains a wide range of materials located in Series I, III, V, VII, and XII. The items include historical wars from the early 17th century to linguistic studies to recordings of Mi'kmaq songs and dances.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:English | Miami-Illinois
Date:1798, 1802, and undated
Contributor:Chasseboeuf, Constantin François, comte de Volney | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Little Turtle | Thornton, William
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:33 pages
Description: The Miami materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 3, 9, 20, 21/22b, and 22/22a. These include Vocabularies recorded directly from the Miami leader Little Turtle and another "taken down by means of a White Woman who had been 20 Years a Prisoner with that Nation."
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:Miami-Illinois | English
Date:1930s, 1960s, undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Old Lady Walker
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Biographies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' small Miami-Illinois file consists of a 275-550 card lexical slip file, with some comparison to Algonquian languages (Series 9), a shorter set of index cards in Series 2 among Proto-Central-Algonquian manuscripts, and a biographical note on Old Lady Walker, in a field notebook of various languages in Oklahoma, 1930s (Series 2).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Language:English | Menominee | Cree | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Miami-Illinois
Date:1963; 1964
Contributor:Lamb, E. Wendell | Shultz, Lawrence W.
Subject:Folklore | Warfare | Linguistics
Type:Text
Description: The Myammia materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and V. Of special interest is a faint, handwritten transcript of unknown historical document with heading "Itinerary May 2, 1763." Mentions travel writing of Lewis Hennepin (1680-1691), and a skirmish involving Iroquois and Miamis.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:Algonquin | Choctaw | English | Miami-Illinois | Narragansett
Date:1787-1888
Contributor:Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Richmond, James Cook, 1808-1866 | Ticknor, George, 1791-1871
Subject:Colonies | Germany--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: These letters and documents concern primarily the American Colony of Göttingen, including a record book containing historical data on the group (1855-1888), and the Algonquin, Choctaw, Illinois, and Naragansett Indian languages. Includes letters of: B. A. Gould, F. R. Hassler, Gauss, Sir Joseph Banks, J. F. Blumenbach. Originals in Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany.
Collection:Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen letters and documents (Mss.H.S.Film.8)