Notes on Seneca, Mohawk, Delaware, Tutelo, Abenaki, Malecite, Micmac, Montagnais, and Cree [and Algonquin]

Field notebook kept by Edward Sapir while surveying languages in several languages in Ontario and Quebec. All sections consist of recorded words and phrases unless otherwise noted: Chief Gibson, Seneca, at Six Nations of the Grand River, giving 1 page story, then list of names Haudenosaunee chief po...

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Other Authors: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 (researcher), Gibson, Chief (consultant), Newhouse, Seth (consultant), Moses, Nelson (consultant), Spragg, Andrew (consultant), Martin, Mrs. M. (consultant), Obamsawin, Mrs. (consultant), Paul, Thomas (consultant), Thomas, Mrs. (consultant), Robertson, Maggie (consultant), Clairie, Louis (consultant)
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Mi-kmaq
Published: 1911
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Online Access:https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/notes-seneca-mohawk-delaware-tutelo-abenaki-malecite-micmac-montagnais-and-cree-and
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Summary:Field notebook kept by Edward Sapir while surveying languages in several languages in Ontario and Quebec. All sections consist of recorded words and phrases unless otherwise noted: Chief Gibson, Seneca, at Six Nations of the Grand River, giving 1 page story, then list of names Haudenosaunee chief positions in Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk; Seth Newhouse, at Six Nations, giving Mohawk clan names; Nelson Moses, Delaware Unami speaker, at Smoothtown; Andrew Spragg, Tutelo speaker, at Six Nations; Mrs. M. Martin, Mohawk speaker, at Kahnawake ("Caughnawaga"); Mrs. Obamsawin, Abenaki speaker, at Pierreville, Quebec; Thomas Paul, Maliseet ("Malecite") speaker at Riviere du Loup; Mrs. Thomas, Mi'kmaq ("Micmac") speaker, at Cacouna; Maggie Robertson, East Cree speaker from Waskaganish ("Rupert House"), at Pointe Bleue; Louis Clairie, Innu-Aimun ("Montagnais") speaker, at Pointe Bleue; Chief Michel Comanda, Algonquin speaker, from (and perhaps at) Maniwaki. Item I1.2