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Culture:
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:circa 1775-1803
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809 | Fleming, William, 1729-1795
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: This collection consists of correspondence both to and from Thomas Jefferson, as well as various other material. Four letters in particular refer to Indigenous people: a letter circa 1775 from John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, to the Delaware leader Captain White-Eyes, urging peace; a letter to Jefferon from William Fleming, June 15, 1776, discussing imminent war with Indians in Canada; Jefferson's letter to General Daniel Smith, September 10, 1800, acknowledging receiving a Chickasaw vocabulary and desire to record as many Native languages as possible; and a letter from Jefferson to Miami and Delaware Indians, January 8, 1803. Additional letters in the collection may pertain to Indigenous people in ways not yet documented.
Collection:Thomas Jefferson papers, 1775-1825 (Mss.B.J35)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1810
Contributor:Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Subject:Mounds | Michigan--History | Botany | Trade | Travel | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries
Extent:1 volume, 121 p., photostat
Description: Thomas Nuttall's travel narrative tracks his journey from Philadelphia to Detroit during the spring and summer of 1810. Nuttall makes a range of observations, including discussions of the weather, plant life, rivers, and the various people he meets, including Native peoples. The last portion of the narrative, which takes place around Detroit, from which he set out by canoe for Michilimackinac, discusses Indians a fair amount – their history in the area, the various groups he met (Chippewa in particular), and their customs.
Collection:Thomas Nuttall diary (Mss.B.N96)
Culture:
Date:1890, 1900, 1935
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Stories | Vocabularies | Field notes
Extent:163 pages, and 2 notebooks
Description: The Tillamook materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 items in the "Tillamook" section of the finding aid and one in the "Chinook" section. Material in the "Tillamook" section includes materials collected in 1890 by Franz Boas (items S4.2 and S4.3), consisting of texts with interlinear translation, pencil corrections, mixed in with materials on Siletz and Nehelim, and material from May Edel (item S4.4), collected in 1935, consisting of a combined vocabulary containing words that she recorded, combined with those recorded earlier by Boas and Melville Jacobs. Material in the "Chinook" section consists of 2 notebooks (item S4.1), partially in shorthand, by Boas from 1890, with vocabularies and texts with interlinear translation, ethnographic notes in shorthand. A table of contents is included with notebooks, which also have Nehelim, Siletz, Chinookan, Wasco-Wishram, Klackamas, Clatsop, and Chinook information, along with physical notes on Songhees skulls from an earlier field work trip.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Tillamook includes: Nehalem, Nehelim, Nekelim
Date:1890-1939
Contributor:Edel, May M. (May Mandelbaum), 1909-1964
Subject:Linguistics | Salishan languages | Folklore | Fieldwork | Ethnography | Anthropology | Ethnology | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Field notes
Extent:4 reels
Description: These materials include notes and vocabularies of Salish languages and dialects, manuscripts concerning the Tillamook language and folk tales, and notebooks containing information from various interviews. From originals in the University of Washington Libraries.
Collection:Mary M. Edel microfilm collection (Mss.Film.1275)
Culture:
Timbisha includes: Panamint, California Shoshoni, Death Valley Shoshone, Nümü Tümpisattsi
Date:1982-1983, 1987
Contributor:Shaul, David
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Transcriptions
Extent:61 pages
Description: The Timbisha materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Shaul.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1948
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Geography | Indian captivities | Missions | Travel | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Captivity narratives
Extent:392 leaves
Description: Catalogue and notes prepared by Charles Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., owned and collected by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. Data on house and its contents, and bibliography of books, including some 60 Indian captivities, books on place names, Indian wars, Indian missions, travels, colonial history pertaining to New England and Canada. Extensive reading notes included.
Collection:Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead (Mss.016.9701.G842b)
Date:circa 1975-1986
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Florida--History
Type:Text
Extent:4 folders
Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's interest in and study of the Timucua language. Materials consist of three items. One folder contains drafts (with penciled edits), notes, etc. of Crawford's "On the Relationship Between Timucua and Muskogean" in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other. There is a folder labelled "Timucua" containing a 35-page Xeroxed word list dated to 1975 and "from a French source" according to R. Rankin in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. Finally, there are two folders containing typed and edited drafts of an essay published in “The Languages of North America: Historical and Comparative Assessment,” edited by Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun in "Timucua and Yuchi. Two Language Isolates of the Southeast" in Series III-B. Works by Crawford--Yuchi.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Date:1982, undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Granberry, Julian
Subject:Linguistics | Florida--History | Georgia--History | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' short Timucua file consists of two quite brief lexica (one comparing with Tawasa, Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages', and another of stems from previously published sources, Series 9), mentions within a folder containing histories and ethnographies of the Tunica (Series 2), and correspondence with Julian Granberry (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Date:2006
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Pareja, Francisco | Martin, Jack B. | Granberry, Julian
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Correspondence | Translations
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright's own work on Timucua consisted of a page of verbal affixes interpreted from Granberry's "A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language" (pre-publication version). He also corresponded with Jack B. Martin on Francisco Pareja's grammar, with a translation and transliteration.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘
Language:English
Date:1819
Subject:Expeditions | Mounds | Natural history
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Journals | Notebooks
Extent:43 pages
Description: "Journal kept...as assistant naturalist of Long's expedition west of the Rocky Mountains from May 3 to August 1, 1819." This journal was kept by Peale as the assistant naturalist of Stephen Long's expedition west of the Rocky Mountains, May 3-August 1, 1819. Mentions meeting Osage and other Indians; examining mounds on Mississippi River. Donor, Robert J. Drake, 1954. Printed, Weese (1947) and extracted and discussed, Poesch (1961): 22-35. Originals in Library of Congress.
Collection:Titian Ramsay Peale journal, 1819 (Mss.Film.694)