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Title: Conversation on how people were created, treatment of Shawnee women, and miscellaneous customs
Identifier(s): audio:6490; APSdigrec_3117; Recording Number: 05A; Program Number: 01
Description: Begins with some elicitation, followed by story of how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire. Continues into discussion of the keeping of fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, and related customs. Predominantly in English.
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Shawnee language; Creation--Mythology; Shawnee mythology; Shawnee Indians--Social life and customs; Shawnee Indians--Folklore; Shawnee women
Date: 1994

Title: Administered tests 1, 2, 3, and 4
Identifier(s): audio:4105; APSdigrec_0194; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: A mutual intelligibility study of four languages or dialects. The participant, Mr. Littlecreek--a Shawnee speaker--is asked to translate four short recordings as they are played back. The recordings are, respectively, narratives in 1) Shawnee; 2) Kickapoo; 3) Ojibwa (a.k.a. Chippewa); 4) Sauk-and-Fox (a.k.a. Mesquakie).
Source: Pierce, Joe E. Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk and Fox, [1951-1953]. (Mss.Rec.14);
Subject: Shawnee language; Kickapoo language; Ojibwa language; Fox language; Indians of North America--Languages--Mutual intelligibility; Indians of North America--Languages--Classification; typology
Date: 1951

Title: Administered tests 1, 2, 3, and 4
Identifier(s): audio:4107; APSdigrec_0196; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 03
Description: A mutual intelligibility study of four languages or dialects. The participant, Mrs. Littlecreek, a Shawnee speaker, is asked to translate four short recordings as they are played back. The recordings are, respectively, narratives in 1) Shawnee; 2) Kickapoo; 3) Ojibwe; 4) Sauk-and-Fox (a.k.a. Mesquakie).
Source: Pierce, Joe E. Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk and Fox, [1951-1953]. (Mss.Rec.14);
Subject: Shawnee language; Kickapoo language; Ojibwa language; Fox language; Indians of North America--Languages--Mutual intelligibility; Indians of North America--Languages--Classification; typology
Date: 1951

Title: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages
Identifier(s): text:156345
Description: Comparative vocabulary of 22 Native American languages, based on Jefferson's collection of vocabularies on printed forms. This document was damaged in transit from the White House to Monticello in 1809 (see letters of Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817, and April 26, 1816.)
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808 (Mss.497.J35); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.J35-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--Languages; Atacapas language; Cayuga language; Cherokee language; Chickasaw language; Chitimacha language; Choctaw language; Cree language; Creek language; Delaware language; Mahican language; Miami language (Ind. and Okla.); Munsee language; Nanticoke language; Oneida language; Onondaga language; Ottawa language; Shawnee language; Tuscarora language; Unami jargon; Unquachog language
Date: 1802-1808