Preliminary draft, photocopy of typed manuscript. Audio recordings corresponding to this text are available in digital format in Series VII of this collection.
Explains his lack of interest in Indigenous languages and customs. He hasn't learned the former, and the latter are useless because the Indian is dying out. He refers DuPonceau to Daniel Butrick who does not appear well. Gambold has been solicited by Barton and has filled in a questionnaire. He does not find Cherokee written with divided syllables.
Photocopy of typed manuscript. Includes a bibliography by Walker and Janet E. Jordon prepared as a supplement to Murdock's Ethnographic Bibliography of North America.
audio:4226; APSdigrec_0556; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description
"Many contrasting pairs of 1st & 3rd persons employing non 1st person H.; List of classifactory verbs expressing long, round flexible and liquid properties."; Recorded as part of research funded by an APS Phillips Fund grant.
Plenary conversation for the inaugural Digital Knowledge Sharing workshop at the American Philosophical Society, with Thomas Belt, Elder-in-Residence and language instructor in the Cherokee Studies Program at West Carolina University, T. J. Holland, Cultural Resources Director for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and Brian Carpenter, Curator of Native American Materials at the American Philosophical Society.