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Title: Word list from "Why Some Trees have Knobs on Them and the Birches Grow in Clumps"
Identifier(s): audio:9069; APSdigrec_0012; Series: 01; Recording Number: 02B; Program Number: 05
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Trees--Folklore; Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Why Some Trees have Knobs on Them and the Birches Grow in Clumps
Identifier(s): audio:9089; APSdigrec_0006; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 06
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Trees--Folklore; Birch; Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Interview between Jane Willets and Chief Ettawageshik
Identifier(s): audio:9085; APSdigrec_0022; Series: 01; Recording Number: 04A; Program Number: 03
Description: History of the Ottawa -- past and present economic occupations -- types of hunting; Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Native American histories; Hunting; Interviews; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Ottawa Indians--History
Date: 1947-08

Title: Why the Great Lakes are Receding
Identifier(s): audio:9087; APSdigrec_0021; Series: 01; Recording Number: 04A; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Great Lakes (North America); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Creation of Mackinac Island by Nanabojo
Identifier(s): audio:9070; APSdigrec_0015; Series: 01; Recording Number: 03B; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08

Title: Nanaboju and the Bears [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:9119; APSdigrec_0038; Series: 02; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: "A long myth describing the killing of Nanaboju's younger brother, Jibiabos, by bears in retaliation against Nanaboju for killing the bears' grandfather and devouring the meat. In this mythological time there was really no such thing as death, so that Nanaboju sees his brother again after the bears have killed him. Then follows a conversation between the two brothers in which it is decided that it is better for people and animals to die when they are killed and for their souls to follow the spirit path to the west because otherwise all nature would have to stay in mourning. Nanaboju commands his brother to blaze the the spirit path and to rule over the land of the dead in the west. Jibiabos leaves singing the mournful death chant."; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Bears--Folklore; Future life; Death--Folklore; Death--Mythology; Soul--Folklore
Date: 1948-05-20

Title: Nanaboju and the Bears [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:9121; APSdigrec_0566; Series: 02; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 01
Description: "An incident to added to the end of the first (1) story [APSdigrec_0038]"; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Nanabush (Legendary character)--Legends; Bears--Folklore; Future life; Death--Folklore; Death--Mythology; Soul--Folklore
Date: 1948

Title: A Girl Married to a Dog
Identifier(s): audio:9126; APSdigrec_0571; Series: 02; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 05
Description: A story describing the marriage of a girl and a dog and the tragedy that resulted in the Ottawa prohibition against the marriage of a human to an animal.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Dogs--Folklore; Marriage--Folklore; Human-animal relationships; Taboo; Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-06

Title: The Legend of Manitou Islands and Sleeping Bear Point
Identifier(s): audio:9079; APSdigrec_0002; Series: 01; Recording Number: 01A; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded by Jane Willets from Chief Fred Ettawageshik on Presto Recorder discs in 1947, then transferred to open tape reels in 1949. Mss. of material recorded written in Ottawa by Chief Ettawageshik with inter-linear translations. Chief Ettawageshik is from Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: North Manitou Island (Mich.); South Manitou Island (Mich.); Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Mich.); Ottawa Indians--Folklore
Date: 1947-08