Elicitations, including kinship terms, pronouns, and tense-aspect markers. Includes list of 'the Umatilla speakers of which I know.' Recorded with speakers Vera Jones at Pendleton, Oregon, and Inez Spino at Adams, Oregon. Titled by Rigsby as "Field notes from the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon, Summer 1963."; Scans created in September 2017 from microfilm reels of the original material made by Rigsby that were deposited at APS in 1969. Originals still in possession of Bruce Rigsby at time of microfilm digitization.
Letter from Spokane. Returned from south. Notes hearing about differences between Wasco and Wishram ways of speaking. Went to Umatilla reservation, visiting Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla. Then went to Hood River where several tribes were for strawberry picking. Gives details of visiting Wasco above The Dalles, relation to the Klickitat. Details on the range of land used by a few tribes. Mentions visiting a white man named Gulick who married a Wasco and has been there since 1857. Made arrangements with him and a Wasco family to buy specimens. Wasco; Wishram; Umatilla; Cayuse; Walla Walla; Yakama; Klickitat; Chinook; Warm Springs
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating distribution of [as spelled] Northern group (Thompson), Central or Okanagon group (Okanagon, Lake, Colville, Sans Poil), Eastern or Flathead group (Kalispel, Spokane), Columbia, Coeur d’Alene, Sahaptin tribes, Cayuse about 1850, Cayuse claimed by some about 1860 or earlier to be old boundaries of Cayuse, Kootenay, territory claimed by some Spokane, and approx. boundaries of Spokane divisions. Annotated portions of map also include westernmost Idaho and southernmost British Columbia.; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Washington...." (c) 1910. Scale 15 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map depicting tribal home areas generally. Noted on map: "Boundaries between tribes are not defined in the traditions."; Base map: "Rand McNally & Co.’s Indexed County and Railroad Pocket Map and Shippers’ Guide of Oregon...." 1910.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating regions of tribal languages. Also delineated on map is "Approximate northern limits of Snake war parties. see map (8)." [On map, the map number was originally given as Map (7), and the title had originally given the date "about 1790 (and earlier)"; but these were crossed out and the cited data were substituted.]; Base map: “Cram’s Indexed County Map and Shipper’s Guide of Washington.” Geo. F. Cram, Chicago. No date.
Hand-colored and annotated map delineating tribal regions in southern Alberta, southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and western Wyoming.; Base map: “Rand-McNally Commercial Map of the Western States.” (c) 1915. Scale approx. 60 miles = 1 inch.
Hand-colored and annotated map, signed "JATeit. 1913." Title is further annotated: "from Salish (various tribes) and Kootenay information".; Base map: “Rand McNally & Co.’s Commercial Map of the Western States.” 1909.
Part of ACLS Collection, Item 59, "Annotated Maps and Notes to maps of the Pacific Northwest." These notes accompany 15 maps hand-annotated by James Teit, showing territories and language ranges in multiple period of Indigenous peoples primarily of the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.