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Title: Word list from Matthews English to Hidatsa
Identifier(s): audio:4869; APSdigrec_0762; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 08
Description: Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 63, program 8.The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians
Date: 1969

Title: Analysis of verb-adverb-adjective forms taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary
Identifier(s): audio:4033; APSdigrec_1857; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 07
Description: In this program the researcher gives English sentences to the consultant, who then gives them back in Hidatsa. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 76, channel 4.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Hidatsa language--Dictionaries; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; lexicography
Date: 1971

Title: A First Creator story
Identifier(s): audio:4019; APSdigrec_1845; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 07
Description: In Hidatsa only. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 75, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Folklore; Hidatsa mythology; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1971

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pgs. 448-462
Identifier(s): audio:3956; APSdigrec_1823; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 07
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The Mandan grammatical morphemes that are worked from in this program are: "middle voice," "iterative," "temporal subordination," "agentive," "third person possessor with kin terms," "third person pluralizer," "potential," "nominalizing prefix," "future," "indicative mood, man addressed," "interrogative, woman addressed," "indicative mood, woman addressed," "causal subordination," "interrogative, man addressed," "inchoative aspect," and "instrumental prefix: by pressure, motion away from body."; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 73, channel 1.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pgs. 430-447
Identifier(s): audio:3957; APSdigrec_1822; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The program begins with a list of plant and animals names that does not appear to be directly derived as such from the Hollow dictionary. The grammatical morphemes elicitation begins at 00:04:50. The Mandan grammatical morphemes that are worked from in this program are: "collective," "dubitative," "conditional," "patient suffix," "continuative," "locative," "similitive," "times (postposition)," "instrumental case," "mild imperative," "directional," "possessive," "instrumentative," "ordinal," "reflexive," "evidential," "agentive," "instrumental prefix: by striking," "nominal suffix," "imperfective aspect," "quotative mood," "negative imperative proclitic," and "vertitive."; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 73, channel 1.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pg. 429
Identifier(s): audio:3958; APSdigrec_1820; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The Mandan grammatical morpheme worked from in this program is ''transitivizer."; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 72, channel 3.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pgs. 462-485
Identifier(s): audio:3975; APSdigrec_1824; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The Mandan grammatical morphemes that are worked from in this program are: "mutative," "instrumental prefix: by heat or fire," "instrumental prefix: by foot," "second person subject of active verbs," "imperative mood, woman addressed," "typifier," "almost," "sequititive," "second person possessive pronoun," "second person ergative pronoun," "infinitive/conjuctive," "incredulative mood," "second and inclusive person pluralizer," "perfective aspect," "narrative past," "instrumental prefix: by hand, by motion toward the body," "inclusive pronoun," "definite article," "preterite," "iterative," "locative," "collective," "disjunctive," "alienable possession," "interrogative particle," "locative," and "imperative, man addressed."; There is an intermittent, uncorrectable line hum from 01:01:29 - 01:01:42. The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 73, channel 4.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pgs. 485-492
Identifier(s): audio:3976; APSdigrec_1825; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 09
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The Mandan grammatical morphemes that are worked from in this program are: "inclusivizer," "dative case," "absolutive," "first person ergative pronoun," "first person subject pronoun," "instrumental prefix: by sharp pointed object," "nominal prefix of unknown meaning," "negative," and "first person possessive pronoun."; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 73, channel 4.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Grammatical morphemes, pg. 430
Identifier(s): audio:3959; APSdigrec_1821; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: This program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa language information through use of a list of grammatical morphemes given in Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. Frequent variations and additions to the list are made by the researcher. Includes some discussion of deer hunting and occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs. The Mandan grammatical morpheme worked from in this program is "past participle."; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 73, channel 1.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Hidatsa language--Grammar; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; Deer hunting; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography; morphology
Date: 1971-08

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Mandan-English section, pgs. 255-283
Identifier(s): audio:4013; APSdigrec_1839; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Description: This program consists of a Hidatsa word list elicited by the reading of English terms and phrases from the Mandan-English section of Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. (See Related Resource.) Some of the entries are skipped. The Mandan equivalents from the dictionary are infrequently given. Includes occasional discussion of context and usage of given words, as well as occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 75, channel 1. When transferred to RDAT tape, the original recording spanned the end of one tape and the beginning of the subsequent one. As a result, there is a small gap in the recording at 02:01:11. Three seconds of silence were inserted to reflect the gap of missing original material, which is of underdetermined length, though likely no more than a few seconds.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Dictionaries; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; Mandan language; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography
Date: 1971

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 192-202
Identifier(s): audio:4064; APSdigrec_1877; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 05
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 79, channel 1.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; syntax
Date: 1971

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 207-209
Identifier(s): audio:4071; APSdigrec_1880; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 08
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 79, channel 4.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1971

Title: Traveling to Minot
Identifier(s): audio:4034; APSdigrec_1855; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Description: The account given by the speaker may in part concern the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919.; Account given in Hidatsa only, with introductory comments in English.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Minot (N.D.); Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; Influenza; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1971

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Introductory matter, pgs. 15, 35-51
Identifier(s): audio:3978; APSdigrec_1826; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: This program consists of a Hidatsa word list elicited by the reading of English terms and phrases from the Mandan-English section of Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. (See Related Resource.) Some of the entries are skipped. The Mandan equivalents from the dictionary are infrequently given. Includes occasional discussion of context and usage of given words, as well as occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs.; The recording becomes scratchy from 25:56 through the end of the recording. The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was copied from the collector's original tape 73, channel 4.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Dictionaries; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; Mandan language; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography
Date: 1971-08

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 135-138
Identifier(s): audio:4042; APSdigrec_1862; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 12
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 76, channel 3.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; syntax
Date: 1971

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 131-135
Identifier(s): audio:4041; APSdigrec_1861; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 11
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 76, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; syntax
Date: 1971

Title: Bull's Eye tradition of Lewis & Clark Bird Woman
Identifier(s): audio:4020; APSdigrec_1844; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 06
Description: In Hidatsa only. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 75, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Hidatsa language; Sacagawea; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Hidatsa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1971

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 178-182
Identifier(s): audio:4049; APSdigrec_1873; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 01
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs. From 35:55 - 41:38 there is a discussion of the making and use of large mortars used for cracking corn.; There is a momentary loss of signal at 29:28. The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 78, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; syntax
Date: 1971

Title: Conversion of Robert Hollow's Mandan Dictionary to Hidatsa: Mandan-English section, pgs. 331-333
Identifier(s): audio:4016; APSdigrec_1843; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 05
Description: This program concludes a Hidatsa word list elicited by the reading of English terms and phrases from the Mandan-English section of Robert C. Hollow's Mandan dictionary. (See Related Resource.) Some of the entries are skipped. The Mandan equivalents from the dictionary are infrequently given. Includes occasional discussion of context and usage of given words, as well as occasional comments on Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 75, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language--Dictionaries; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; Mandan language; anthropological_linguistics; lexicography
Date: 1971

Title: Word list and usage analyses taken from Washington Matthews' Hidatsa Dictionary, pgs. 188-192
Identifier(s): audio:4065; APSdigrec_1876; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 04
Description: Program consists of elicitations of Hidatsa sentences. The researcher's English sentences are based on definitions of Hidatsa words given in the dictionary section of Washington Matthews' 1877 book, "Ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians." The researcher proceeds through the Hidatsa entries alphabetically and occasionaly skips entries. Interspersed throughout the program are occasional discussions of miscellaneous aspects of Hidatsa social life and customs.; The Hidatsa language is referred to on the recording by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Atsina language of the same name. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 79, channel 1.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs; anthropological_linguistics; syntax
Date: 1971