Compare Constellations

Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch. Religious customs of modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 / by Gertrude Kurath, Jane Ettawageshik, and Fred Ettawageshik.

Title: Religious customs of modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 / by Gertrude Kurath, Jane Ettawageshik, and Fred Ettawageshik.

Field report for the American Philosophical Society.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 500 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419929 View

Tuscarora Material, 1948-1949

Title: Tuscarora Material 1948-1949

Recorded by Anthony Wallace in 1948 and 1949 at the Tuscarora Reservation in Niagara County, New York. Contains folkloric stories, tribal histories (especially relating to the 18th and 19th centuries), autobiographical stories, reminiscences, word lists, and descriptions of tribal government, organizations, and customs. Almost all stories are given in both Tuscarora and English. Originally recorded on 16 wire spools, transfered to open reel tape in 1950.

ArchivalResource: 30.0 Tape(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.2-ead.xml View

Ottawa material, 1947-1948

Title: Ottawa material 1947-1948

This collection consists of Ottawa songs, interviews, word lists, legends, Nanabojo stories, autobiographical stories, and information on Ottawa history. Some of the material is given in both Ottawa and English, some in Ottawa only. Recorded by Jane Ettawageshik in Michigan from 1947 to 1948.

ArchivalResource: 14.0 Reel(s)

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.1-ead.xml View

American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society, 1882-1958

Title: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society 1882-1958

Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans. The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward.

ArchivalResource: 80.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml View

Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955, 1955

Title: Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 1955

The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective, to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. 12 chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Presents Ottawa "superstitions" (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see Jane Willets, Ottawa material, Rec. 1), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Volume(s), Ca. 500 pages

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.K965a-ead.xml View