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 Author:  Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823Requires cookie*
 Title:  Names of various trees, shrubs, and plants in the language of the Lennape [sic], 1840     
 Dates:  1840 
 Abstract:  This volume contains a vocabulary of Indian words for natural items compiled by John Heckewelder .

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 Call #:  Mss.497.3.W85 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Language and Linguistics | Native America 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Algonquian languages | Algonquin language | Cheroenhaka Indians | Delaware language | Indians of North America -- Languages | Iroquoian languages 
 Author:  Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen letters and documents, 1787-1888     
 Dates:  1787-1888 
 Abstract:  This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.H.S.Film.8 
 Extent:  1 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Genre:  Microfilm Collection 
 Subjects:  Algonquin language | Americans -- Foreign countries. | Choctaw language | Illinois language | Indians of North America -- Languages | Narragansett language 
 Author:  Peirronet, ThomasRequires cookie*
 Title:  Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797     
 Dates:  1797 
 Abstract:  This slender volume is the notebook of Thomas Pierronet. This volume contains a range of material on Native American languages and cultures. It contains a comparative vocabulary of Micmac, Montagnais, and Nascapee Indians. It also has a record of prayers and pictographs of the Micmac.

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 Call #:  Mss.497.3.P61s 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Language and Linguistics | Native America 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Algonquin language | Indians of North America -- Canada -- Languages -- Writing | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Maritime Provinces | Micmac Indians | Micmac language -- Writing | Montagnais language | Naskapi language 
 Author:  Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718Requires cookie*
 Title:  Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum, 1822     
 Dates:  1822 
 Abstract:  Peter Du Ponceau made this copy of Adriaan Reland's Dictionary in 1822. Reland made his dictionary in 1708. It contains the vocabularies of various Native American languages.

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 Call #:  Mss.498.R27 
 Extent:  1 volume(s) 
 Topics:  Language and Linguistics | Native America 
 Genre:  Language Material | Native American Materials 
 Subjects:  Algonquin language | Arawak language | Carib language | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of South America -- Languages | Mapuche language | Massachusett language | Nahuatl language | Pokomam language | Quechua language | Wyandot language 
 Author:  Séminaire de Québec.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics     
 Dates:  1685-1930 
 Abstract:  This is a microfilm of an early American collection that may be of interest to researchers at the APS and may complement an original manuscript collection at the APS.

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 Call #:  Mss.Film.453 
 Extent:  6 microfilm_reel(s) 
 Genre:  Microfilm Collection 
 Subjects:  Algonquin language | Indians of North America -- Languages | Iroquoian languages | Missionaries -- Canada. | Wyandot Indians | Wyandot language