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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: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1916 June 12
Identifier(s): text:121893
Subject: St'at'imc; Dene; Secwepemc; Syilx; Nlaka'pamux; Syilx
Date: 1916 June 12

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1912 Jan. 29
Identifier(s): text:121719
Subject: Séliš; Ktunaxa; Piikáni; Blackfoot; Secwepemc; St'at'imc; Syilx
Date: 1912 Jan. 29

Title: Lower and Upper Lillooet word list
Identifier(s): text:167167
Description: Basic St'at'imcets ("Lillooet") language word list, for Upper and Lower varieties, given by consultants Ignace Jacob (Yisp, Lower Lillooet), Chief Jim (Aidêˊsq!t, Upper Lillooet), and Tommy Adolph (Yimentcútu, Upper Lillooet), and recorded by Edward Sapir.
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
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 1914

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1906 Mar. 4
Identifier(s): text:121293
Description: Commentary on Charles Hill-Tout paper on the Lillooet (St'at'imc) with observations and corrections. Funerary shaman practices, salmon ceremonies, hot spring for medicinal purposes, types of names, vocabulary, personal crests, linguistics. St'at'imc; Lillooet; Sto:lo; Coast Salish; Interior Salish; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Okanagan; Syilx
Subject: Stó:lō; St'at'imc; Coast Salish; Nlaka'pamux; Syilx
Date: 1906 Mar. 4

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1908 Jan. 1
Identifier(s): text:121307
Description: Notes on dialectical boundaries of interior Salish; variation in basket designs among Interior Salish, such as between Upper and Lower Nlaka'pamux; will talk to particular women about these matters. Flathead; Coeur d'Alene; Cayuse; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Lillioet; St'at'imc
Subject: Séliš; Coeur d'Alene; Cayuse; Nlaka'pamux; St'at'imc
Date: 1908 Jan. 1

Title: Lillooet vocabulary
Identifier(s): text:167166
Description: St'at'imcets (Lillooet) word and phrase lists arranged roughly by semantic categories. Final scanned page consists of four fragments placed in an undetermined order.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
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: St'at'imc people; Lillooet Indians; Lillooet language
Date: circa 1910

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1906 July 30
Identifier(s): text:121296
Description: Corrections to map; traditional territories; small hand-drawn map correction at end. St'at'imc; Lillooet; Secwepemc; Shuswap; Thompson; Nlaka'pamux; Pavillion Creek; Nicola Lake; Chilcotin; Tsilhqot'in; Rocky Creek Band; Kałkałst; Métis; Cree; Iroquois; Haudenosaunee; Sekani; Canim Lake Band; Ktunaxa; Kutenai; Stoney; Nakoda
Subject: Secwepemc; Nlaka'pamux; St'at'imc; Tsilhqot'in; Métis; Cree; Haudenosaunee; Sekani; Ktunaxa; Stoney
Date: 1906 July 30

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1908 Dec. 2
Identifier(s): text:121443
Description: Resending vocabularies, map, notes, and accounts. (See letter to Boas, July 28, 1908.) Has some Nlaka'pamux texts on hand that he hasn't had time to translate yet. Gives additional notes on how accurate the information may be on different parts of the map of Eastern Washington and Idaho. Recaps info on the vocabularies. Will write out two Tahltan stories soon. Asks for copies of papers by Spinden on Nez Perce and Smith on Coast Salish archaeology. Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Salish; Sahaptin; Eastern Washington; St'at'imc; Lillooet; Okanagan; Syilx; Idaho; Montana; Tahltan; Secwepemc; Shuswap; Nez Perce
Subject: Séliš; Tahltan; Nlaka'pamux; Sahaptin; St'at'imc; Syilx; Secwepemc; Nez Perce
Date: 1908 Dec. 2

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1913 May 19
Identifier(s): text:121734
Subject: Tahltan; Nlaka'pamux; Secwepemc; Assiniboine; Shoshone; Mi'kmaq; Syilx; St'at'imc; Cree; Stuwix
Date: 1913 May 19

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1911 Feb. 1
Identifier(s): text:121566
Subject: Coast Salish; Nlaka'pamux; Nisqually; Willapa; St'at'imc; Secwepemc; Syilx
Date: 1911 Feb. 1

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1908 July 28
Identifier(s): text:121440
Description: Sending manuscript of Salishan comparative vocabularies, including "Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Okanagon, San Poil, Colville, Columbia, Spokane, & Coeur d'Alene." Describes plans to record more words in the future. Notes possibility of elaborating information on word construction and how sound changes have caused differentiation. Planning to write down Lakes dialect and Pend d'Oreille word list. Enclosing also a list of tribal names and a map of Washington showing "earlier disposition" of tribal territories, as well as notes on this. Hoping to continue such research. Twenty baskets on hand from last 2 years of work. St'at'imc; Nlaka'pamux; Secwepemc; Okanagan; Sanpoil; Colville; Columbia; Spokane; Coeur d'Alene; Pend d'Oreiile; Lakes; Sinixt; Lillooet; Thompson; Shuswap; Syilx
Subject: St'at'imc; Nlaka'pamux; Secwepemc; Syilx; Sanpoil; Colville; Wenatchi; Spokane; Coeur d'Alene; Kalispel; Sinixt
Date: 1908 July 28

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1919 Jan. 26
Identifier(s): text:122059
Subject: Tsilhqot'in; St'at'imc; Secwepemc; Squamish; Coast Salish; Dakelh; Nuxalx; Kwakwaka'wakw; Tsimshian; Tlingit; Kaska; Shishalh; Tagish
Date: 1919 Jan. 26

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1913 Feb. 24
Identifier(s): text:121724
Subject: Syilx; Coeur d'Alene; Kalispel; Séliš; Sanpoil; Stuwix; Sinixt; Nlaka'pamux; Secwepemc; St'at'imc; Blackfoot
Date: 1913 Feb. 24

Title: Teit, James A.: To Boas. 1908 Nov. 20
Identifier(s): text:121442
Description: Returned from hunting trip in Cassiar area. Received from dead letter office the comparative vocabularies he had sent to Boas of Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Okanagan, San Poil, Colville, Columbia, Spokane, and Coeur d'Alene; a map of territories of each (forwarded in August). In Cassiar, wrote down Tahltan stories. Talks about a guide named Adset, who knows Tahltan, and some Kaska, Nahanni, and Cree. Teit wrote down info from him on boundaries of these groups. Northern BC clearer to Teit now. More discussion of Adset and his life and knowledge of stories. Mentions Rev. Dr. Inglio of Telegraph Creek. Carrier; Dakelh; St'at'imc; Lillooet; Nlaka'pamux; Thompson; Secwepemc; Shuswap; Okanagan; Syilx; Sanpoil; Colville; Columbia; Spokane; Coeur d'Alene; Tahltan; Kaska; Nahanni; Cree; Teslin; Cree; Liard; Inland Tlingit
Subject: Dakelh; St'at'imc; Nlaka'pamux; Secwepemc; Sylix; Sanpoil; Colville; Tahltan; Wenatchi; Spokane; Coeur d'Alene; Kaska; Dene; Cree
Date: 1908 Nov. 20