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Names, Indian -- North America.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence from Pima Indian Agency, Sacaton, Arizona

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9050
Scope and content

41 letters written by Miss Wilson to her family in Willoughby, Ohio, while she was a teacher at the Pima Indian Agency. Includes a list of scholars and how they were renamed. The folder with transcripts includes provenance information and letters to and from Sidney Wilson about the Florence Wilson correspondence. The transcripts are also annotated.

Dates: 1884-1885.

William Wallace Tooker papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9187
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.

Dates: [18--]-1917.