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An Aboriginal Salt Mine at Camp Verde, Arizona
Achomawi Geography
The Archaeological Remains of the Chiwere Sioux
Explores direct correlation between the Chiwere Sioux and the Oneota culture.
Blackfoot Ethnography
The Bluejay Character in the Plateau Spirit Dance
Boom Periods in the History of an Indian Tribe
Chipewyan Texts I
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "How the Indian children were taught;" "Fishing;" "How copper was first found" (this story continues in the next notebook).
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] II
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "How iron was first found;" "how dà ts á à lived" (this story continues in next notebook).
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] III
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "The story of bèts ú é yè nèt cà ;" "How dà ts á à lived;" and two untitled stories.
Historical note:The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] IV
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: three untitled stories, and "The story of turi."
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] IX
Includes stories and interlinear translations of one untitled story, a continuation from the previous notebook (VIII), and: "The man who cheated in gambling;" The last Dogribs who ran in flight;" "How I made a canoe;" "How moose hide is tanned;" "The prophet of the Yellow-Knives;" "My Beaver Hunt."
Historical note:
Chipewyan [Texts] V
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: one untitled story, and "The story of Oa tOe ti."
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] VI
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "The story of the man-eater;" "The story of a man who has slept with a bear;" "The adventures of Beaulieu."
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] VII
Includes stories and interlinear translations of one untitled story, a continuation from the previous notebook (VI).
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] VIII
Includes stories and interlinear translations of one untitled story, a continuation from the previous notebook (VII), and "The story of a man who became a wolf."
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Chipewyan [Texts] X
Includes stories and interlinear translations of one untitled story, a continuation from the previous notebook (IX), and: "The story of a wise man," in two parts.
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.
Culture Element Distributions IV: Pomo
Dental Pathology of Aboriginal California
Development of Design on Hohokam Red-On-Buff Pottery
[Duck Lake Agency] Outgoing Correspondence Ledger
Historical note:
Harold Nelson Woodsworth served as an Indian Agent at a number of agencies in Saskatchewan.Etah Eskimo in Kayak
Historical note:
Etah, abandoned village in NW Greenland, on Smith Sound, opposite Ellesmere Island. The Eskimo tribe discovered there by John Ross in 1818 is known as the Polar Eskimo and was studied by R. E. Peary, D. B. MacMillan, and Knud Rasmussen. Etah was frequently used as a base for arctic expeditions.Ethnological Notes on the Ojibwa of Southeastern Ontario
Excavations at La Mata, Maracay, Venezuela
First Nations Men at North-West Police Memorial Opening
Forty-First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1919-1924
Forty-Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1926-1927
Forty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1924-25
Forty-Third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-1926
From Kaw Teepee to Capitol: The Life Story of Charles Curtis, Indian, Who Has Risen to High Estate
[G. F. Shepherd, Notes 1937-1974]
File contains hand written and typed notes of historian George Shepherd, dated from 1937-1974. The notes include several pages on Aboriginal history in the North-West, that were scanned for this database. This includes a wide variety of material: from copy of a letter written by Louis Riel, to a list of the reserves in Saskatchewan in 1962 and their estimated landbase and populations.
Historical note:
Giraud, M., "Note on the Half-Breed Problem in Manitoba," 1937.
"Grey Owl, 1937."
Havasupai Ethnography
Hidatsa Eagle Trapping
How Qu'Appelle Got Its Name
The Indian Background of Canadian History
Indian Gravestone
Indian Notes [Vol. 5, no. 1, January, 1928]
Indian-Pioneer Papers Collection
Oral history collection covers the time span from 1861 to 1936; includes typescripts of interviews conducted during the 1930s and consists of about 80,000 entries searchable by personal name, place name, or subject.