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Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:circa 1900-1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Williams, Frank
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Drafts | Vocabularies | Notes | Stories
Extent:2 reels
Description: These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). Originals at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Collection:Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials (Mss.Film.687)
Culture:
Date:1735-1900
Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Subject:Moravians | Moravian Church | Missions | Linguistics | Religion | Social life and customs | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes | Church records
Extent:40 reels
Description: This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Originals in the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Collection:Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform] (Mss.Film.1279)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1817-1883
Contributor:United Church Board for World Ministries
Subject:Missions | Religion | United Church Board for World Ministries
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Reports | Accounts | Memoranda
Extent:64 reels
Description: These papers include letters, reports, accounts, and memoranda relating to the work of the American Board of Home Missions among the Abenaki, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Dakota, Ojibwa, Miami, Osage, Pawnee, Penobscot, and Stockbridge-Munsee peoples of Arkansas, New York, and Oregon. Originals in Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Collection:Papers, 1817-1883, relating to North American Indian missions (Mss.Film.1223)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Blackfeet includes: Blackfoot, Niitsítapi, Siksika, Siksikaitsitapi
Language:English
Date:1920-1965
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Lingelbach, William E. (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Medicine | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays | Lectures | Notes
Extent:4 items
Description: Materials on miscellaneous or general topics relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Native North American histories and cultures. Items include Wallace's correspondence with Francisco Guerra and R. Jerrel Williams regarding references pertaining to Indian medicine; notes on and different versions of a talk titled "Debt We Owe the Indian" given by Wallace at Farmers' Forum, York, Pennsylvania, the Madison Historical Society, New Jersey, etc.; Wallace's correspondence with William Ezra Lingelbach regarding Wallace's research on John Heckewelder, the Muhlenberg family, Indians of Pennsylvania, the Haudenosaunee, collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Cree, Blackfoot, etc.; and Wallace's correspondence with Charles Marius Barbeau concerning a wide range of topics such as French-Canadian folklore, Edward Ahenakew's Manebogo manuscript, Conrad Weiser and the Delawares, the American Philosophical Society, Barbeau's Huron-Wyandot work, filming of the Contrecoeur papers and Huron grammars at Seminaire de Quebec, and Richard Pilant and the founding of an international Institute of Iroquoian Studies.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Language:English
Date:1964-1984
Contributor:Neel, James V., (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000
Subject:Arizona--History | Genetics
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence | Maps
Extent:7 folders
Description: The North American materials in the James V. Neel papers consists materials related to Neel's genetics and populations studies among some indigenous people in the Southwest and Great Lakes region. The bulk of these materials are found in "Series IIa: Amerindian," "Series IIIa: Amerindian," and "Series IV: Committees." These materials can be located most quickly by doing a keyword search in the aid for the culture terms listed above.
Collection:James V. Neel Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.96)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1928-1943; 1949-1954
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Migrations | Archaeology | Art
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:87 pages
Description: The North American materials, John Alden Mason collection include correspondence regarding Barbeau's work on the North Pacific coast and Eskimo art. Possible migration routes into North America from Asia; remains of early man in North America; Frederica de Laguna's archaeological work in Alaska; Edgar B. Howard's work on early man in North America.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:October 20, 1764; April 6, 1765; August 21, 1767; February 22, 1796;
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Barnsley, Thomas, -1771 | Dixon, Jeremiah | Gates, Horatio, 1728-1806
Subject:Surveying | Pennsylvania--History | Antiquities
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Relavent materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Correspondence between Gates and Barnsley regarding attacks by Indians, concern for convoys to Fort Pitt, and seizure of goods by country people, 1764-1765. Letter from Dixon to James Burd authorizing two Indians to return home, and referring them to Sir William Johnson for pay, 1767. Letter from Barton to John G. E. Heckewelder with questions about Indian artifacts, mica, color of Indian children at birth, etc, 1796. Other individuals mentioned include George Croghan.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Paiute, Northern includes: Numu
Language:English
Date:1941
Contributor:Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984
Subject:California--History | Nevada--History | Idaho--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books
Extent:1 folder
Description: The only Northern Paiute materials in William Bright's papers are a set of small publications, sent to Bright by Ruth Underhill (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:English
Date:1805-1838
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:6 items
Description: Materials relating to Northwest Coast languages and cultures at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include APS support for John Kirk Townsend's expedition [to Oregon, with botonist Thomas Nuttall, the second western expedition of Boston entrepreneur Nathaniel J. Jarvis]; Captain Swift's [of Boston] observations of indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast; Lieutenant Sylvanus W. Godon's return from U.S. exploring expedition aboard the Peacock, a gift of vocabularies, and the gift of Northwest Coast Indian pipe to John Vaughan; a draft letter to Samuel G. Morton signed by Titian Peale regarding the division of materials from Townsend's expedition between American Philosophical Society and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; a letter from Morton stating that the Academy of Natural Sciences didn't subscribe to Townsend's expedition and consequently has no claim on his collections; and Townsend's letter to John Vaughan transmitting Northwest Coast Indian vocabularies--the originals have been given to the APS and have also been rearranged and transcribed for Du Ponceau, and Nuttall has a copy of four or five vocabularies. Geological specimens and shells selected by Titian R. Peale also transmitted.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:March 13, 1836
Contributor:Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851
Subject:Zoology | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Indians at Fort Vancouver, Columbia River, are out gathering animal specimens for Morton.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)