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Culture:
Sinkyone includes: Sinkine
Date:1902-1908
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:Architecture | California--History | Linguistics | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:4 notebooks
Description: The Sinkyone materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of Goddard's 4 notebooks in the "Sinkyone" section of the finding aid (item Na20i.1). These contain lexical items with translations, texts with interlinear translations, and lengthy notes in English on house types for Sinkyone of north and south in Humboldt County. In the "Hupa" section of the finding aid, Goddard's "Field notes in California Athabascan languages" (item Na.2) include Sinkyone ethnographic materials of undetermined extent, pending creation of detailed contents listing.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Date:circa 1925-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:7 folders
Description: There are some materials relating to Siouan languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials labeled as Siouan or Macro-Siouan. Researchers should also search for entries for specific Siouan languages and culture groups. Siouan materials are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is a folder containing a list of of Siouan-Iroquois words in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. In Subcollection II, correspondence with Hans Wolff concerns work on comparative Siouan and can be found in Series I. Correspondence; there are notes on Siouan in the "Miscellaneous languages" file in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries I. Eskimo-Aleutian; and there is a subseries on Macro-Siouan in the the same series (Research Notes). Subseries IV. Macro-Siouan contains files on Cherokee, Iroquoian, Oneida, and Yuchi grammatical notes.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:Atakapa | Biloxi | Catawba | Dakota | English | Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai | Maidu (macrolanguage) | Tunica | Tutelo | Yuchi
Date:circa 1970-1977
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Arizona--History | Hokan languages | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's interest in and study of Siouan languages. Items include 2 folders on "Hokan and Siouan Words for Mouth" [1970-1971] in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other. Folder 1 contains a brief handwritten explanation of the research project, which revolved around the phonological sequence "ya" in words pertaining to the mouth; over 100 sheets of paper titled "Mouth," each containing linguistic examples for a different lists of languages considered, some with examples; a chart of Crawford's data, organized by language and with words (when available) for "mouth," "swallow," "be hungry," "chin," and "throat, neck"; and miscellaneous notes. Folder 2 contains a first draft of the article, with endnotes and bibliography, dated to March 1970, and several subsequent drafts, including a clean copy. Draft pages are numbered but some appear to be out of order. Crawford culled examples from many languages outside of the Hokan and Siouan language families. See also related material in "The Phonological Sequence 'ya' in Words Pertaining to the Mouth in Southeastern and Other Indian Languages" [1975] in the same series. In Series IV-B. Research Notes & Notebooks--Yuchi there are two Siouan-related folders, "Possible Cognates to Yuchi in Siouan, Atakapa, Yava, Maider, etc.," which contains 9 full sheets and 2 slips of handwritten notes comparing Yuchi, Biloxi, Ofo, Catawba, Atakapa, Maidu, Yava, Wocco, Tutelo, etc., and "Some Possible Cognates Between Yuchi and Siouan and Between Yuchi and Tunica," containing a typed three-page chart comparing Yuchi, Dakota, and Biloxi (also with some Catawba examples). Finally, there is 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:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: One of three manuscript copies in Hawkins' hand, the other two being in the Georgia Department of Archives and History [see Pound (1951):251]. A listing of towns and villages of Muskhogee and especially Creek Indians, together with a discussion of customs, the Busketau, and answers to queries proposed to an old Creek Indian. Addenda on war parties, 1813, and treaties, 1773-1796.
Collection:Sketch of the Creek country in the years 1798 and 1799 (Mss.970.3.H31)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1826
Contributor:McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Subject:Michigan--History | Wisconsin--History | Treaties | Diplomacy | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Memoirs | Watercolors | Sketches
Extent:3 volumes, 29 watercolor illustrations
Description: A record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes and a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827. Schoolcraft-Gallatin Chippewa vocabulary appears at beginning, but the manuscript lacks appendices found in the printed text. Watercolors are different in small details, superior in color to printed text.
Collection:Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes (Mss.917.7.M19)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Snunueymuxw materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #4.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886, 1888, circa 1890, 1900
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:131 pages
Description: The Snuneymuxw matierals in the ACLS collection consist of two items. In the "Halkomelem" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Nanaimo, Cowichan, and Lower Fraser materials" (item S2i.1) contain extensive vocabulary and texts with interlinear translations recorded in 1886. In the "Salish" section, Boas' "Comparative vocabularies of eight Salishan languages" (item S.1) includes Snuneymuxw vocabulary derived from this earlier fieldwork. See also "Squamish vocabulary," circa 1888, (item S2h.1,) which includes a comparative vocabulary for numbers in multiple Coast Salish languages.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:1701-1786
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: These records represent volumes 21-22 of the Society's archive of documents relating to North America, and includes letters to and from Pennsylvanians, or the missionaries sent there, and a few from New York, and from Massachusetts.
Collection:Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (Great Britain) records (Mss.Film.1463)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject:Missions | Religion | New York (State)--History | Social life and customs | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Diaries | Travel narratives
Extent:181 pages
Description: This manuscript, entitled “An account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people,” was compiled by Halliday Jackson, a Quaker missionary, during his yearlong residence with the Seneca Nation in New York. Jackson's chronicle is well-written, detailed, and often fascinating. It includes descriptions of daily life, weather, customs, and minutes of councils. Another copy of this journal, worded differently, was edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published in Pennsylvania History 19 (1952): 177, 325.
Collection:Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799 (Mss.970.3.J25)
Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Date:1827
Contributor:James, Edwin, 1797-1861
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: A brief discussion of location and the language, with list of Menominee words beginning with "A."
Collection:Some account of the Menomonies, with a specimen of an attempt to form a dictionary of their language (Mss.970.1.J23)