Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: In this doctoral dissertation (Cornell University, 1960), Berkhofer compares and contrasts the differing missionary activities of Quakers, Moravians, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Methodists, to reactions among the Oneida, Seneca, Cherokee, Choctaw, Ojibwa [Ojibwe], Sioux [Dakota], Ottawa [Odawa], and Nez Perce.

Collection:Protestant missionaries to the American Indians, 1787 to 1862 (Mss.Film.1157)

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Mohawk materials, Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879

Culture:

Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:French | English | Wyandot | Algonquin | Mohawk

Date:1770; 1818

Contributor:Mathevet, Jean Claude, 1717-1781

Type:Text

Extent:2 reels

Description: Thirty-nine volumes of relgious materials and translations prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. Materials include Mathevet's translation into Mohawk of the Old Testament (3 volumes); New Testament (8 volumes); sermons (10 volumes); formal religious materials (16 volumes); an anonymous Algonquin manuscript; and an anonymous volume of catechism, prayers, and hymns in Huron. Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.

Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)

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Mohawk materials, Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics

Culture:

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:French | Mohawk

Date:Undated

Contributor:Unknown

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries

Extent:1,216 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 particular item is a French-Mohawk dictionary. Original at the Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.

Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)

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North America materials, Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform]

Culture:

Shawnee

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Nanticoke

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cherokee

Language:English | Muscogee | Delaware | Mohawk | Onondaga

Date:1735-1900

Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)

Type:Text

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)

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Oneida materials, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English

Date:August 9, 1770; October 28, 1787; July 1798;

Contributor:Shippen, William, 1712-1801 | Minto, Walter, 1753-1796 | Pierce, John, 1745?-1808

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Journals

Extent:3 items

Description: Materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Late 18th century items relating to missionary efforts among Oneidas. Topics include Indians' hope to hear Whitefield preach (thwarted when he went on to Boston because no congress was to be held at Sir William Johnson's); Rev. Samuel Kirkland; Minto's belief that Oneida share a common origin with Europeans because they identify Great and Small Bear by the same image; and Quaker missionaries' offer to set up a blacksmith shop to train Indians, to find iron, and to apprentice Indians as farmers.

Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)

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Oneida materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Oneida

Date:1995-1998, 2012-2015

Contributor:Antone, Harvey | Gick, Bryan | Nichols, David A. | Pollak, Margaret

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Interviews | Reports | Stories

Extent:385 pages

Description: The Oneida 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 Gick, Nichols, and Pollak.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Onondaga materials, Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879

Culture:

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:French | Onondaga

Date:1821-1865 and undated

Contributor:Magon de Terlaye, François-Auguste, 1724 -1777

Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Translations

Extent:2 items

Description: Materials prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in the French and Onondaga languages. Items include an undated French-Onondaga dictionary attributed to Magon de Terlaye, and an unattributed list of members of "Les trois confrairies de la Ste. Famille du Sault de St. Regis," an Indian women's religious society, dated to 1821-1865. The latter also includes members' date of joining and describes their duties; prayers and rules of conduct for the group are written in Onondaga. Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.

Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)

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Pennsylvania Indians materials, Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Susquehannock includes: Conestoga

Shawnee

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Nanticoke

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Language:English

Date:1700-1757; ca 1815

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Depositions | Instructions | Copybooks | Notes

Extent:40 items

Description: Correspondence and other materials regarding Pennsylvania Indian affairs. Topics include Pennsylvania's relations with Native peoples; hostilities between Native groups and colonists in the backcountry; diplomatic overtures and councils between Native and colonial leaders; the fur trade; land claims and disputes; legal and illegal surveying of Indian lands; the Lancaster Treaty of 1744; copper mine opened by Governor Keith; anxieties about French influence over Indians and conflict with French over fur trade; role of gifts and payments for Indians; Indian roads; Virginians' desires to expand west; Native religious beliefs and morality; Count Zinzendorf's mission; the imprisonment and escape of Thomas McKee. Other individuals mentioned include Peter Bizaillon, Letitia Penn. Caxagan, Edward Shippen.

Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, 1791-1892

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English

Date:1756-1908

Contributor:Society of Friends

Type:Text

Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes

Extent:12 reels

Description: Selections made by Dr. George Snyderman for the American Philosophical Society from the Society of Friends' Record Room in Philadelphia. Includes 12 reels of letters, diaries, reports of missionaries and individual Quakers, etc., committee reports and correspondence from Indians to Quakers, 1791-1908 and undated; minutes of the Committee...for Promoting the Improvement and Gradual Civilization of the Indian Natives (Indian Committee), 1795-1895 and beyond; minutes of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures, 1756-1791; and miscellaneous papers of teachers, pupils, visitors to Tunessassa Indian School, Quaker Bridge, New York, mostly twentieth century.

Collection:Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, 1791-1892 (Mss.Film.824)

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Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820

Culture:

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English

Date:1789-1820

Type:Text

Extent:1 reel

Description: These selections include letters, bills, accounts, receipts, memoranda, and official communications and documents relating to the Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] in New York State, selected from volumes 6-15 of O'Reilly's collections, "Mementos of western settlement," together with copies of documents from the American State Papers, etc. Included are letters of Phelps, Gorham, Chapin, Brant, Kirkland, Knox, Pickering, Irvine, and Morris. Many manuscripts appear to be from the papers of General Israel Chapin, an Indian agent. From originals at the New York Historical Society.

Collection:Selections from papers relating to the Six Nations, 1789-1820 (Mss.Film.639)