Box 1
Container
Contains 19 Results:
[Documents in the Spanish and two of the early tongues of Florida, Apalachian and Timuquan.], compiled by Buckingham Smith, ca. 1688-1864
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
ca. 1688-1864
Correspondence between John A. Swenson and Jeff Kaimowitz (Director, Watkinson Library), 1989
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1989
Kamloops Wawa - Vol. IV, no. 11 (single issue of "newspaper in shorthand circulating among the Natives" of Kamloops, British Columbia), 1895-11
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Kamloops Wawa. Vol.IV No.11, November, 1895. A solicitation for subscriptions to this newspaper published in Chinook Jargon by use of Duployan shorthand (a French shorthand)by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, superior of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops in British Columbia, Canada. Small quarto folded specimen copy of Vol.1 No. 1.
Dates:
1895-11
A Brief Statement of the Objects, Achievements and Needs of the Indian Rights Association (Philadelphia, PA), 1887
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
A Brief Statement of the Objects, Achievements and Needs of the Indian Rights Association Philadelphia, 1887. 8p.
Dates:
1887
Notes taken by Samuel Gardner Drake, for a possible "Indian dictionary" (including names of tribes and geographical place-names), undated, possibly ca. 1869
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
undated, possibly ca. 1869
Letter by William Henry Holmes (Chief of Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution) to Frank B. Gay (Librarian, Watkinson Library), with enclosed draft notes written by Cyrus Thomas (Bureau of American Ethnology) entitled "List of Linguistic Families and Tribal Languages of Mexico and Central America", May 26, 1904
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
May 26, 1904
Photocopies of manuscript notebook written by Edwin James, and exhibit catalog "Middlebury's Edwin James and James's America, April-July 1984" , 1984-2000
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1984-2000
A Glossary of the Seminole Language commenced in 1835 by Lieut. Casey of the [United States] Army, afterwards much was added by Lieut. Waldron,...[and addition] during a Journey to Florida in 1851 by Frederic Kidder, 1835-1851
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1835-1851
[Manuscript biography of Catharine Tekakoüita, an Iroquiose of Saut St. Louis of Montreal in Canada, who died a Saint], undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
undated
Two Catholic books of prayers (includes liturgy and rituals of the Catholic Church), 1700
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
(1) Book of prayers in Latin and Abenaki; purchased by John Pickering in Boston, 1846; (2) Book of prayers in French and Abenaki
Dates:
1700