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Algonquian languages

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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.

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.