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Indians of North America -- Languages

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Constance Goddard DuBois papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438761]
Identifier: 9167
Abstract The papers include her field notes from her summers in California, notes on her activities with the Connecticut Indian Association, and newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs, particularly those in California. Drafts of manuscripts for her publications on Luiseno religion, Diegueno mythology, and other subjects relating to the Mission Indians of California are included in the collection. Letters written to Du Bois from 1897 to 1909 comprise a significant part of the collection....
Dates: 1897-1909.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Constance Goddard DuBois papers

Cree language studies

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438951]
Identifier: 9072
Scope and content Three three-ringed binders full of handwritten notes about the Cree language. The notes discuss both the spoken and written language. Sections on grammar, dictionaries, the alphabet, various dialects, historical information, word definitions, phonetic pronunciation guides, word conjugations, language rules, instructions on how to make certain sounds with throat and tongue. Also sections on Algonquian, Abenaki, Montagnais, Ojibwa, and Gaelic Lowland Scottish languages. Information on...
Dates: 1950-1972.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cree language studies

Fidelia A. H. Fielding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9000
Scope and content

Digitized versions of the original three diaries written in the Mohegan language: December 20, 1902-January 23, 1903; April 21 - June 24, 1904; and May 17 - June 21, 1904. Copy of the Lord's Prayer in Mohegan; and a certificate for the unveiling of a monument in memory of Fidelia Fielding at Fort Shantok Park (Norwich, CT) by the Degree of Pocohantas, May 24, 1936.

Dates: 1902-1904, 1936.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Fidelia A. H. Fielding papers

Handwritten notes on Indian names

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9255
Scope and content

Manuscript sent to Frederick Webb Hodge. Includes handwritten copies of manuscripts in the British Museum. Various notes on culture, relations, activities, as well as language and place names.

Dates: 1911.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Handwritten notes on Indian names

Native American artist vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9241
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera covering artists, both Native American and non-Native American, whose artwork often focused on Native American subjects.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000.]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Native American artist vertical file

Native American biography vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9242
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera providing biographical information of, both Native Americans and non-Native Americans, whose work focused on Native American subjects.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Native American biography vertical file

Native American publications vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9246
Abstract

This collection contains newsletters, newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals produced by Native American and non-Native American sources.

Dates: [ca.1960-2000].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Native American publications vertical file

Native American subject vertical file

 Collection
Identifier: 9205
Abstract

This collection contains ephemera covering a broad variety of topics relating to Native Americans.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000.]
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Native American subject vertical file

Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9051
Scope and content Two letters from Samuel Worcester, one a typed transcript. Also, letter from Alice Mary Robertson dated January 19, 1877, in which she writes her mother from the Department of the Interior and encloses the letters from Worcester who was her grandfather. Provenance letter from Grant Foreman to Frederic W. Hodge dated October 28, 1930, upon presentation of the letters for the Hodge Collection. One of the Worcester letters is dated April 12, 1826 from Mayhew, Choctaw Nation, addressed to...
Dates: 1826-1832.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Austin Worcester correspondence and provenance

Warner D. Miller collection

 Collection
Identifier: 9180
Abstract Notebooks, sketches, postcards, photographs, manuscripts, Indian vocabularies, poetry, newspaper clippings, and maps. Most pertaining to mid west and northern Great Plains Indians. There are many sketches of native plants, some of them appear to have been copied from botanical books, but others appear to be original drawings also sketches of land formations. Biographic and encyclopedic information on Indians and their customs. Notes regarding places of the west he visited, cowboys, how to...
Dates: [ca. 1930-1945].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Warner D. Miller collection

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