Papers, ca. 1910-1930, on the Iroquois Indians.

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Papers, ca. 1910-1930, on the Iroquois Indians.

These papers include materials on the Onondaga, Tuscarora, Seneca, Cayuga, and Oneida Indians, collected under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Native American Languages. Included are field notes, grammars, dictionaries, studies of Handsome Lake religion, medical prescriptions, comparative linguistics, and correspondence with Franz Boas.

46 folders and volumes.

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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942

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Born in Minden, Germany, on July 8, 1858, the anthropologist Franz Boas was the son of the merchant Meier Boas and his wife, Sophie Meyer. Raised in the radical and tradition of German Judaism, Franz's youth was steeped in politically liberal beliefs and a largely secular outlook that he carried with him from university through his emigration to the United States. At the universities of Heidelberg and Bonn, Boas studied physics and geography before completin...

Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958

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Frans M. Olbrechts was a Belgian linguist and anthropologist. From the description of Papers, ca. 1910-1930, on the Iroquois Indians. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589347 From the guide to the Frans M. Olbrechts papers, ca. 1910-1930, on the Iroquois Indians, Circa 1910-1930, (American Philosophical Society) David Zeisberger served as a Moravian minister. From the guide to the Essay of an Onondaga grammar; or A short in...

American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on American Native Languages

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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. Wielding grants to encourage research, the Committee was chaired by Boas and staffed by Manuel J. Andrade, Jaime de Angulo, Roland B. Dixon, Pliny E. Goddard, Bernard Haile, John P. Harrington, Harry Hoijer, Melville Jacobs, Diamond Jenne...