MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1950
Abstract:
Recorded in 1950 with consultants Lucenda George and Pat Johnson. Contains numerous autobiographical stories, descriptions of contemporary life on the Onondaga Reservation, and descriptions of tribal customs, foods, history, and governmental. There are 54 texts altogether given in Onondaga only--13 told by Pat Johnson, 41 by Lucenda George. Of these texts, 35 are translated into English by Lucenda George as the earlier recordings are played back to her in short segments. There are no transcripts or other documentation accompanying these recordings.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.3
Extent:
22 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Agricultural laborers -- New York (State) | Alcoholism | Assault and battery | Autobiography | Automobile driving in winter | Brooches | Cats | Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) | Children's accidents | Christianity and other religions | Churches | Clans | Clothing and dress | Corn as food | Crime -- Anecdotes | Cucumbers | Dams -- New York (State) | Diseases | Dogs | Edible insects | Epidemics -- New York (State) | Evictions | Factories -- New York (State) | Farms -- New York (State) | Fasts and feasts | Finger Lakes (N.Y.) | Food habits | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Gardening | George, Lucenda | Glasses | Horsemanship | Indian women -- Employment -- United States | Indian women -- North America -- Social conditions | Inheritance and succession | Interracial marriage | Johnson, Pat | Locusts | Lost and found possessions | Lukoff, Fred | Marriage | Matriarchy | Messengers | Missing persons | Missionaries | Money -- Anecdotes | Moving of buildings, bridges, etc. | Murder | Older men | Older women | Oneida Indians | Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) | Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) | Onondaga Indians | Onondaga Indians -- Biography | Onondaga Indians -- Clothing and dress | Onondaga Indians -- Domestic animals | Onondaga Indians -- Economic conditions | Onondaga Indians -- Employment | Onondaga Indians -- Food | Onondaga Indians -- Games | Onondaga Indians -- Government relations | Onondaga Indians -- History | Onondaga Indians -- History -- 19th century | Onondaga Indians -- Kinship | Onondaga Indians -- Land tenure | Onondaga Indians -- Legal status, laws, etc. | Onondaga Indians -- Politics and government | Onondaga Indians -- Religion | Onondaga Indians -- Social conditions | Onondaga Indians -- Social life and customs | Onondaga Lake (N.Y.) | Onondaga language | Onondaga women | Owasco Lake (N.Y.) | Parties | Pensions | Pets | Picnicking | Roads -- Design and construction | Romanies -- New York (State) | Six Nations | Smallpox | Snow | Sound recordings | Sports | Stepmothers | Summer | Syracuse (N.Y.) | Syracuse (N.Y.) | Taxicab drivers | Textile workers | Voyages and travel | Wampum | Weather | West (U.S.) -- Description and travel | Wills | Winter | World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Indian
