Indian Dictionaries and Vocabularies, 1837, 1877, 1896, undated

Contents List

Container Title
U.S. Mss 6F
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Boyd, Robert K.: Chippewa names and expressions
Physical Description: Booklet 
Folder   1
Chippewa Indians: Chippewa animal and bird names
Physical Description: 1 page, typewritten 
Note: Found in the G.B. Merrick Papers
Folder   1
Connelley, William E.: Origin of the Indian names of the States of Iowa, Missouri, Missippi, Ohio, and Kentucky, also of the rivers Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, and Neosho, by Connelley, secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society
Physical Description: 7 pages, typewritten 
Folder   1
Custer, Milo: Kickapoo Indian vocabulary
Folder   1
Decorah, Spoon: Lyman C. Draper's interview with Spoon De Kauray, 1877 December 19-20
Folder   1
Dixon, F.R.: List of Winnebago Indian words and phrases with their English signification (enclosed in a letter to R.G. Thwaites, 1896 March 23)
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Hoskins, Mrs. M.A.: Chippewa Indian names for some of the lakes of northern Wisconsin
Folder   1
Loring, David: A few words in the language of the Seneca tribe of Indians
Note: “This vocabulary was made by Mr. David Loring in 1837-38, when he spent those years in and near a reservation for the Seneca Indians.”

Physical Description: 15 pages, typewritten 
Folder   1
Merrell, Henry: Winnebago dictionary kept in ms. by Henry Merrell, of Portage, Wisconsin

Ho-Chunk language materials are available online.


Physical Description: 19 pages, typewritten 
Note: Loaned by his grandson to be copied; original returned to A.J. Turner of Portage, March 11, 1899.
Folder   1
Game laws of Saskatchewan for 1912 in the Cree syllabic
Note: Missing as of the 1990s
Folder   1
Snyder, William E.: Eskimo vocabulary collected by William E. Snyder of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, when a member of a Pennsylvania museum collecting expedition
Folder   1
Verwyst, Chrysostom: Chippewa vocabulary, giving names of Wisconsin rivers, cities, towns, lakes, bays, waterfalls, islands, etc.
Package   1
Wheeler, E.P.: Criticism of Chrysostom Verwyst's article “Geographical Names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan Having a Chippewa Origin”
Folder   2
Miscellany