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Title: Vocabularies in Nooksack and other Coast Salishan languages
Identifier(s): text:156859
Description: Manuscript consists of three separate word lists. The first is in Nooksack and English (2 p.). The second is a comparative word list in languages and dialects ordered roughly in their geographic location starting from south to north. They are identified in the manuscript as Puyallup (or "sXúƛ'babš" which may be Homamish), Snoqualmie, Suquamish (not Squamish), Swinomish, Nookechamps (a Skagit division), Sauk (may be Sooke), Lummi, Samish, Nooksack, Muskokwim (probably Musqueam), Katzie, and Chilliwack (or Halkomelem). (6 p.) The third item is an English-Swimomish-Samish comparative list. (2 p.) Varying notes on identifications given by researchers are provided at the end. (2 p.); ACLS collection, item S.8
Creator: Smith, Marian W.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Nooksack language; Halkomelem language; Northern Lushootseed language; Southern Puget Sound Straits language; Puget Sound Salish languages; Lushootseed language; Nooksack language
Date: 1934

Title: III-6: An incident
Identifier(s): text:166185
Description: Story given in Lakota, literal English translation, and free translation, with accompanying notes.; Part of ACLS collection, item X8a.10.
Creator: Deloria, Ella Cara
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Lakota Indians
Date: circa 1937

Title: Dakota notes
Identifier(s): text:155300
Description: Observations by Miss Deloria's brother of gestures, sleeping arrangements of full-blooded Dakotas. Includes text V-2, "Gestures," and text V-3, "Sleeping arrangements," both in English only, with some Dakota terms. The latter includes on scrap of paper with handwriting, probably that of Franz Boas.; ACLS collection, item 38
Creator: Deloria, Ella Cara
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Dakota Indians
Date: 1932

Title: Medicine Root Community at Kyle, S.D.
Identifier(s): text:156874
Description: Text VI-2. Includes original Lakota version, literal translation, free translation, and notes.; Part of ACLS collection, item X8a.14: 'Dakota speeches'
Creator: Deloria, Ella Cara
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Lakota Indians; Lakota language; New Deal, 1933-1939; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
Date: circa 1937

Title: III-8: A typical 'kidding' between brothers-in-law
Identifier(s): text:166196
Description: Story given in Lakota, literal English translation, and free translation, with accompanying notes.; Part of ACLS collection, item X8a.10.
Creator: Deloria, Ella Cara
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Lakota Indians
Date: circa 1937

Title: [Map of hunting territories in Quebec and Labrador.]
Identifier(s): graphics:6300
Description: Annotated map depicting Montagnais-Naskapi, Cree, and Algonquin-Ojibwa hunting territories of Quebec and the Labrador peninsula.; Base map: "Map of Labrador Peninsula. Base map from plats of map of Canada, Department of Interior." No date. Scale 1:2,217,600.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Montagnais Indians; Naskapi Indians; Cree Indians; Atikamekw Indians; Innu Indians; Indians of North America--Quebec; Indians of North America--Labrador

Title: Mythological text in Atsugewi
Identifier(s): text:184611
Description: Text with interlinear translation and grammatical notes.; Item H1a.3
Creator: Angulo, Jaime de
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Atsugewi language; Atsugewi Indians
Date: 1929

Title: Haida lexicon
Identifier(s): text:136471
Description: Disorganized slips from various MS. texts. Some have English equivalents.; Item N1.1
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Haida language
Date: Undated

Title: Tsuut'ina notebook #7
Identifier(s): text:156485
Description: One of seven Tsuut'ina language notebooks recorded by Edward Sapir with speaker John Onespot. These notebooks include elicitations of words and phrases, grammatical notes, and stories with interlinear English translation.; ACLS Collection, Item Na6.1. Language referred to by Sapir as "Sarcee." The preferred term is "Tsuut'ina" or "Tsuu T'ina." The physical notebook's cover label of "Sarsi" was added by Harry Hoijer, who possessed the notebooks after Sapir's death and later donated them to the APS in 1973.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Tsuut'ina language; Sarsi language
Date: 1922

Title: Different ways of saying the word "paddling a canoe," "house," and "take"
Identifier(s): text:173163
Description: Word list written down by Hunt and sent to Boas, undated. Located in ACLS Collection, Item W1a.3, part 2, folder 1.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl language
Date: Undated

Title: Mrs. Big-Crow and Mrs. Old-Man-Spotted
Identifier(s): graphics:8349
Description: Black and white photo of two women (Mrs. Big-Crow and Mrs. Old-Man-Spotted) standing, with a child standing and facing away.; Original photo ID: 8-1
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Tsuut'ina; Sarsi Indians; Tsuut'ina people
Date: 1922

Title: Takelma notebook #1
Identifier(s): text:157568
Description: Notebook containing texts with English translations, medicine formulas, etc. (published as Sapir, 1909) as well as paradigms and other grammatical notes.; Item Pn1. 1
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939; Johnson, Frances
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Takelma language; Takelma Indians
Date: 1903

Title: Drawing of salmon smokehouse
Identifier(s): text:160091
Description: Pencil drawing of Kwakwaka'wakw fish smokehouse, with terms in Kwak'wala and English. Hunt's title: "xElats!e gokw or drying house; wewamedzats!e or salmon fisher house."
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--British Columbia; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1919

Title: Word lists comparing Kwagu'ł with 'Nak'waxda'xw and Gusgimukw
Identifier(s): text:159411
Description: Comparative word lists in Kwak'wala, Gutsa, and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas, undated. Located in ACLS Collection, Item W1a.3, part 1, folder 1.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakiutl Indians; Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwagu'ł; Nak'waxda'xw; Gusgimukw
Date: Undated

Title: Takelma notebook #2
Identifier(s): text:183870
Description: Notebook containing texts with English translations, medicine formulas, etc. (published as Sapir, 1909) as well as paradigms and other grammatical notes.; Item Pn1. 1
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939; Johnson, Frances
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Takelma language; Takelma Indians
Date: 1903

Title: Map (4). Showing approximately some of the chief trade routes and trading places &c of the Plateau tribes.
Identifier(s): graphics:6289
Description: Hand-colored and annotated map delineating routes in red, and point locations keyed by number (key not present on map). Annotated areas of map include southernmost British Columbia, southernmost Alberta, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, western and central Montana, western and central Wyoming, northwestern Colorado, northeastern Utah.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1908, 1910 printing.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: maps; Washington (State)--Maps; Oregon--Maps; Idaho--Maps; Montana--Maps; British Columbia--Maps; Alberta--Maps

Title: Lillooet vocabulary
Identifier(s): text:167165
Description: A collection of word lists in the St'at'imcets ("Lillooet") language pertaining to a broad range of topics: “Shuswap & Lillooet words required for compilation of vocabularies” (including some Nlaka’pamuctsin); “Names of places, villages, &c.”; “Names of implements, manufactures, materials used for do.”; “Verbs”; “Names of houses, lodges, rooms, parts of lodges, household utensils and furnishings, baskets, mats, bags &c”; “Names of articles of clothing, ornaments, styles of hairdressing, painting, tattooing &c.”; “Phrases”; “Names of varieties of food, roots, berries, plants, trees”; “Names of canoes, snowshoes”; “Names of weapons, games, tings used in games &c.”; “Seasons, months, natural phenomena, &c”; “Titles, personal names, names in connection with social organization, festivals, social customs &c”; “Names in connection with birth, childhood, puberty, marriage, death, relationship”; “Names in connection with religion, mythology, spirit land, shamanism”; “Numerals, adverbs, prepositions, adjectives, &c.”; “Animals, birds, fishes, insects, reptiles”; “Implements used in processing food”; “Terms of relationship, parts of body, &c”; and “Substanterials” listing suffixes.
Creator: Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Lillooet language; Lillooet Indians; St'at'imc people
Date: circa 1910

Title: Jim Starlight
Identifier(s): graphics:8337
Description: Black and white photo of a man, Jim Starlight, standing outside.; Original photo ID: 10-8
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Tsuut'ina; Sarsi Indians; Tsuut'ina people
Date: 1922

Title: Three rooted clover
Identifier(s): text:173154
Description: Interlinear text in Kwak'wala and English. Written down by Hunt and sent to Boas in February 21, 1929. Located in ACLS Collection, Item W1a.3, part 1, folder 2.
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakiutl Indians--Food; Kwakiutl Indians--Social life and customs; Kwakwaka'wakw
Date: 1929-02-21

Title: III-4: The modern medicine-man
Identifier(s): text:166183
Description: Story given in Lakota, literal English translation, and free translation, with accompanying notes.; Part of ACLS collection, item X8a.10.
Creator: Deloria, Ella Cara
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Lakota Indians
Date: circa 1937