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Date:1960s-2000s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Masthay, Carl | Munro, Pamela | Walker, Willard | Spade, Watt
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected a small number of books on Cherokee language and culture, including a copy of the Cherokee Advocate newspaper (Series 2), as well as corresponding with Carl Masthay on Cherokee place names and with Pamela Munro on Cherokee linguistic analysis (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1949, 1963-1964, 1976, 1985-1987, 1991-1994, 2005, 2009
Contributor:Berndt, Christina | Guerrier, William | Leman, Wayne | Meadows, William C., 1966- | Merrill, William Lewis | Olson, Donald | Powers, William K.
Subject:Dance | Botany | Folklore | Linguistics | Montana--History | Music | Powwows | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Reports | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1325 pages, 64 photographs
Description: The Cheyenne materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Berndt, Guerrier, Leman, Meadows, Merrill, Olson, Powers.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Date:1963-1987
Contributor:Ant, James | Blackhorse, Alex | Fightingbear, Maude | Glenmore, Josephine, 1920-1990 | Hawk, Anna | Howlingcrane, Jeanette | King, Marion | Knowsgun, Sylvester | LaRance, Martha | Leman, Elena | Leman, Wayne | Olson, Donald | Risingsun, Elizabeth | Risingsun, Ted | Rockroads, Laura | Shoulderblade, James | Strangeowl, Elaine | Tallbull, William | Walksalong, Joe | Whitedirt, Charles | Whitedirt, Julia | Wolfvoice, Grover | Woodenlegs, John | Yellow Eagle, Mrs.
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Montana--History | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Extent:29 audiocassettes (19 hr., 31 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Cheyenne stories, sermons, tribal histories, songs, and other material, recorded in Busby, Montana. (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:Cheyenne texts (Mss.Rec.145)
Culture:
Language:French | Chinook | Chinook Jargon
Date:Undated
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Penutian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Hymns | Translations
Extent:3 pages
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. This item, by an unknown author, contains hymns in French and Chinook (unidentified Chinookan language and/or Chinook Jargon). Includes a comment of Charles Marius Barbeau: "Probablement de la Cote Nord-Ouest. Il semble avoir des mots du jargon chinook; potlatch, makumak. Peut-etre des missionaires Demers et Blanchet." Original in Universite Laval. Seminaire de Quebec, Archives, Polygraphie XIX no. 38.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Language:Chinook | Kathlamet | English | Chinook Jargon
Date:ca.1976-1994
Contributor:Johnson, Samuel | Hymes, Dell H. | Kendall, Daythal | Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Gender
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Chinookan language materials in the Daythal Kendall Papers is entirely works collected from others, most notably Dell Hymes, Samuel Johnson and Marie-Lucie Tarpent, the latter of which includes a paper with over 200 comparisons between Chinookan and Tsimshian languages. These are mostly in Series 5. There are two works by Samuel Johnson about Chinook Jargon (Series 5 and 7).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | French
Date:1802
Contributor:Duralde, Martin
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as Item 11: Martin Duralde's "Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas," which includes commentary on Chitimacha religion.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Schitsu'umsh includes: Coeur d'Alene, Skitswish
Language:Coeur d'Alene | English
Date:1908; Circa 1910; 1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Religion | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:435 pages; 1 notebook
Description: The Coeur d'Alene materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of 3 items in the "Coeur d'Alene (Schitsu'umsh)" section of the finding aid. One is Reichard's "Coeur d'Alene Indian texts" (item S1g.1) containing 51 texts without translations. Two items (S1g.2 and S1g.3) recorded by James Teit consist of Coeur d'Alene vocabularies, some relating to material culture and religion. In the "Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Field notes on Thompson and neighboring Salish languages" (item S1b.7) includes some Coeur d'Alene information, though the extent is undetermined as these notebooks are very complicated and have not yet been fully indexed. "Suffixes in Thompson, with variants in other Salish languages" (item S1b.12) contains some incidental Coeur d'Alene terms written in.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1979-1982, 1987-1991
Contributor:Ackerman, Lillian A. (Lillian Alice) | Bessell, Nicola | Gabourie, Sophie | Arcasa, Isabel
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Essays | Notebooks | Interviews | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:267 pages
Description: The Colville materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Ackerman and Bessell.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Date:1985
Contributor:Kroeber, Paul D. | George, Mary
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Religion | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:5 audiocassettes (5 hr., 7 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in Sliammon, British Columbia in August 1985 by Paul D. Kroeber with consultant Mary George. Predominantly consists of linguistic elicitation of Comox words and phrases. Includes a brief Shaker narrative. (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:Comox field recordings (Mss.Rec.153)
Culture:
Date:1783-1817
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | McAtee, William L.
Subject:Botany | Health | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:107 pages
Description: These letters authored by Benjamin Barton Smith to various correspondents discuss Indian vocabulary words for birds, earthquakes, and animals of their domestic economy. Smith solicits information about Indian beliefs about health, nursing, menstration, animal sacrifice, Indian Bible, origins of Indian tribes, white race, Orthography and spelling, chief's political power, and comparative linguistic analysis between Indian and Asiatic languages.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)