MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1994
Abstract:
The collection consists of linguistic elicitations of different aspects of Shawnee grammar and vocabulary, and conversation, anecdotes, discussion, and personal narratives relating to Shawnee customs and history. The linguistic material includes elicitation of passive, imperative, hortative verbs, and other verb forrms, vocabulary for times of the day and year, weather, gender and age, color terms, and miscellaneous adjectives and full sentences. The other material includes a narratives given in Shawnee on on traditional roles of men and women and the use of eagle feathers in doctoring, and English anecdotes and conversation relating to topics such as: different types of dances, the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, the keeping of fire, how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, little people, the passing down of knowledge through elders, doctoring, the use of tobacco and peyote, and personal stories. Recorded in Oklahoma in 1994.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.236
Extent:
26 tape(s)
Subjects:
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Ants -- Folklore | Aphrodisiacs | Beads | Colors, Words for | Cookery | Creation -- Mythology | Depressions -- 1929 -- Oklahoma | Dogs | Dogs -- Folklore | Drunk driving | Fire -- Folklore | Future life | Grandmothers | Grasshoppers -- Folklore | Human-animal relationships | Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Dance | Indians of North America -- Oklahoma -- Medicine | Kickapoo dance | Medicinal plants | Norcross, Amoena B. | Nuts -- Harvesting | Oklahoma | Peyote | Peyotism | Quakers -- Oklahoma | Red-tailed hawk | Roadrunner | Shawnee Indians -- Agriculture | Shawnee Indians -- Clothing | Shawnee Indians -- Education | Shawnee Indians -- Fire use | Shawnee Indians -- Folklore | Shawnee Indians -- Funeral customs and rites | Shawnee Indians -- History | Shawnee Indians -- History -- 20th century | Shawnee Indians -- Medicine | Shawnee Indians -- Migrations | Shawnee Indians -- Music | Shawnee Indians -- Religion | Shawnee Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Shawnee Indians -- Social life and customs | Shawnee dance | Shawnee language | Shawnee language -- Adjectives | Shawnee language -- Grammar | Shawnee mythology | Shawnee women -- Social conditions | Smoke | Sound recordings | Time -- Terminology | Tobacco | Traffic accidents | United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Shawnee Agency | Weather