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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10892

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Title:Shawnee language recordings
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B.
Date:1994
Description: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.
Extent:26 sound tape reels (12 hr., 21 min.)
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10892
Language:Shawnee
English
Language (ISO639):sjw
eng
Subject:Shawnee
Dance
Economic conditions
Linguistics
Medicine
Oklahoma--History
Religion
Social life and customs
Type (DCMI):Sound

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Archive:  Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10892
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Citation: Norcross, Amoena B. 1994. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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