Box 1
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Portrait (print) - possibly Tecumseh, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
Caption to portrait reads: "Tecumseh [...] the great Leader of the Connecticut Squaws." Stamped "Watkinson Library, Hartford, Conn." on verso.
Dates:
undated
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
Notes taken by Samuel Gardner Drake, for his re-publication of William Hubbard's The History of the Indian Wars in New England from the First Settlement to the Termination of the War with King Philip, in 1677 (1677; rev. 1865), 1860 - 1870
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
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:
1860 - 1870
“Notes on the migration of the Dakotas," an essay written by Walter James Hoffman M.D. (of Reading, PA), 1870
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
May contain Lakota words or language. Walter James Hoffman lived from 1846 to 1899.
Dates:
1870
"An Indian Hymn," as sung by Mr. Rand (missionary in Montreal) and written by Miss F. M. Caulkins, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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
Manuscript notebook written by Edwin James, and two holograph letters from George R. Howell (N.Y. State Library) to J. Hammond Trumbull, regarding the E. James notebook, 1823-1879
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
The manuscript notebook of Edwin James (1797-1861) may contain vocabulary and phrases in Ojibwe, Menominee, Sioux-Lakota, Winnebago, Minsi, Penobscot, and Norridgewock.
Besides photocopies of the Edwin James notebook and two letters by George Howell, Folder 5 also contains a 1984 exhibit catalogue entitled "Middlebury's Edwin James and James's America."
Dates:
1823-1879
A Manual of Devotion and Instruction for the Slave Indians of McKenzie River by the Revd. W. W. Kirby, with the approbation of The Lord Bishop of the Diocese, 1871
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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:
1871
Letter by Thomas L. McKenney (Dept. of War, Office of Indian Affairs) to "The Choctaw Delegation," regarding the unpaid bills of Joshua Tennison, February 18, 1825
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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:
February 18, 1825