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Culture: Arapaho
Alternate forms: Arapahoe
Date: 1949-1952, 1962, 1967-1968, 1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1992, 1995-1996, 2000-2001
Contributor: C'Hair, William James | Cleveland, Edna | Cowell, Andrew | Goggles, John B. | Hatton, Orin T., 1953- | Hopper, Edward G. | Merrill, William Lewis | Moss, Alonzo | Powers, William K. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Salzmann, Zdeněk | Shakespeare, William | Underwood, Merry Kate | Weigel, William F.
Subject: Linguistics | Montana--History | Music | Oklahoma--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence | Field notes | Grammars | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent: 814 pages
Description: The Arapaho 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 Andrew Cowell, Orin T. Hatton, William Lewis Merrill, Willam K. Powers, Sue Roark-Calnek, Z. Salzmann, and William Weigel. These materials pertain to both Northern and Southern Arapaho. The materials by Cowell and Weigel relate to linguistic fieldwork for which there are accompnaying audio recordings, listed separately in this guide. Salzmann's material is also linguistic, containing a draft grammar of the language. The material by Hatton also relates to an extensive audio collection, "Ghost Dance-Era Songs of the Arapaho Crow Dance," also listed separately in this guide.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture: Assiniboine | Dakota
Alternate forms: Assiniboin, Hohe, Nakoda, Nakota, Wadopahnatonwan
Language(s): Assiniboine | English
Date: 1936, 1949
Contributor: Ahenakew, Edward | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Montana--History | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence | Grammars | Translations
Extent: 64 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items that can be found in the "Assiniboine" section of the finding aid. Deloria's "Notes on the Assiniboine (Belknap or Watopahnatu dialect)" (item X8d.1) contains a sketch of Assiniboine grammar, compared with that of Dakota, and includes an Assiniboine text, with literal and free translation and notes, and a letter from author to Franz Boas, Jan. 6, 1936, covering the document. The other item is Ahenakew's "The creation of a new tribe" (71), an explanation of creation of Assiniboine tribe, separated from Sioux, given Ahenakew in his youth by his mission superintendent, Rev. John Hines, a battle over a girl accounted for end of connection of Red Eagle with other Sioux, and a letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, May 21, 1949, commenting on Rev. Hines' relation to the author.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture: Assiniboine
Alternate forms: Nakoda
Language(s): Assiniboine | English
Date: 1967-1970, 1997
Contributor: Harbeck, Warren A. | Morgan, Mindy | Powers, William K. | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject: Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text
Genre: Essays
Extent: 246 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Harbeck, Morgan, Powers, and Taylor.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture: Blackfoot
Alternate forms: Siksika
Language(s): English
Date: 1943
Contributor: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject: Anthropology | Sociology | Montana--History | Alberta--History
Type:Text
Genre: Reviews
Extent: 3 pages
Description: Review of Oscar Lewis, "The Effects of White Contact upon Blackfoot Culture" submitted to American Sociological Review. Unpublished.
Collection: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture: Blackfoot
Alternate forms: Siksika
Date: 1967-1968, 1995, 2005, 2012-2015
Contributor: Armoskaite, Solveiga | Powers, William K. | Spriggs, Lynne | Bliss, Heather | Kim, Kyumin | Miyashita, Mizuki
Subject: Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre: Essays | Reports | Elicitation sessions | Interviews | Field notes
Extent: 345 pages, 4 CDs
Description: The Blackfoot materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Armoskaite, Powers, Spriggs, Bliss, Kim, and Miyashita.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture: Blackfoot
Alternate forms: Nitsitapi, Siksika
Date: 1950
Contributor: Bear Child, Lewis | Hecote, Ellen | Running Crane, Geneva | Schenadoah, Rodney | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject: Montana--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Songs | Vocabularies
Extent: 3 sound tape reels (1 hr., 22 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The Blackfoot materials in the William Fenton audio collection are located in "Series 9: Blackfoot Songs and Dances." One recording includes a very brief word list in Crow. (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: William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)
Language(s): English
Date: 1942, 1950
Contributor: Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Fickinger, Paul L. | Hanks, Lucien M.
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence | Field notes
Extent: 6+ folders
Description: The Blackfoot material in the Fenton papers are found in Series I, including correspondence with Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Felix Cohen, Paul L. Fickinger, and U.S. Dept. of Interior. See also Lucien M. Hanks in this same section for letter concerning field work among the Siksika (Northern Blackfoot) at Gleichen, Alberta in the 1940s. Series V contains Fenton's field notes from the Blackfeet Reservation in 1950.
Collection: William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
Culture: Cheyenne
Date: 1948
Contributor: Bigfoot, David | Birdwoman, Laura | Blackhorse, Francis | Croft, Kenneth | Guerrier, William | Littlebird, Anna May | Littlebird, Harry | Monatie, Albert | Red Bird, Charles | Stands In Timber, John | Yellow Spider, Mr.
Subject: Education | Folklore | Music | Montana--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent: 5 sound tape reels (7 hr.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made on 10 wire spools in 1948 in Lame Deer, Montana and El Reno, Oklahoma. Consists of traditional and historical stories, autobiographical narratives, unidentified texts, all given in Cheyenne only. Also includes discussions of the state of Cheyenne learning among the younger generation, and a variety of peyote, war dance, and hand game songs. Originally recorded on wire spools. (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 material (Mss.Rec.5)
Culture: Cheyenne
Language(s): English
Date: 1910s-1930s
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 | Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject: Linguistics | Montana--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture: Cheyenne
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)