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Title: Legend of the Maškuo'tens
Identifier(s): audio:9130; APSdigrec_0042; Series: 02; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 02
Description: Story of an Ottawa battle with the Indians who formerly lived in the same region of Michigan.; 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; Ottawa Indians--History
Date: 1948-04-30

Title: Mkkwániwi at Sleeping Bear Point
Identifier(s): audio:9136; APSdigrec_0573; Series: 02; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 02
Description: "Another incident from the eventful life of Joe's grandfather told by Joe."; 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--History; Ottawa Indians--Biography
Date: 1948

Title: Kidnappers from Saginaw
Identifier(s): audio:9102; APSdigrec_0030; Series: 02; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Description: A semi-historical legend about a child snatched from the Harbor band by hostile Indians from Saginaw.; 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--History; Kidnapping; Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-05-02

Title: Mkkwániwi at Burt Lake
Identifier(s): audio:9128; APSdigrec_0039; Series: 02; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Description: "Description of a frightening experience of Joe Chingwa's and Fred Ettawageshik's grandfather while hunting at Burt Lake."; 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--History; Ottawa Indians--Biography; Hunting; Burt Lake (Mich.)
Date: 1948-05-20

Title: Mkkwániwi and the Trial at St. Joseph
Identifier(s): audio:9132; APSdigrec_0574; Series: 02; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 01
Description: "Description of a murder trial in which Mkkwániwi [Joe Chingwa's grandfather] was one of the judging chiefs."; 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--History; Trials (Murder); Ottawa Indians--Legal status, laws, etc.; Ottawa Indians--Biography
Date: 1948

Title: The Chief with Seven Sons
Identifier(s): audio:9097; APSdigrec_0032; Series: 02; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: Legend of an Ottawa woman kidnapped by the Sioux and the death of the Sioux chief's seven sons, each of whom tried successively to marry her.; 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; Ottawa Indians--History; Kidnapping; Forced marriage; Dakota Indians
Date: 1948-05-05

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