Language: Susquehannock
Collector: Johannes Campanius
Date of collection: 1640s
Site of collection: New Sweden
Orthography: Swedish
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 112
Featured in:
ALR Volume 2, A Vocabulary of
Susquehannock
Sources:
Johannes Campanius. 1696. Lutheri Catechismus, Ofwersatt på
American-Virginiske Spraket. Stockholm. [pdf]
Susquehannock (Alsop 1666)
Language: Susquehannock
Collector: George Alsop
Date of collection: 1666
Site of collection: Susquehannock River
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 1
Featured in:
Not published in ALR series
Sources:
George Alsop. 1666. A Character of the Province of Maryland.
London:Peter Dring.
George Alsop. 1869 [1666]. A Character of the Province of
Maryland. New York:William Gowans.
Unami Delaware (Campanius 1696)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: Johannes Campanius
Date of collection: 1640s
Site of collection: New Sweden
Orthography: Swedish
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 378 (plus phrases and speeches)
Featured in:
ALR Volume 3, A Vocabulary of
the Unami Jargon
Sources:
Johannes Campanius. 1696. Lutheri Catechismus, Ofwersatt på
American-Virginiske Spraket. Stockholm. [pdf]
Unami Delaware (Penn 1683)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: William Penn
Date of collection: 1683
Site of collection: Lower Delaware River, Pennsylvania
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 17
Featured in:
ALR Volume 3, A Vocabulary of
the Unami Jargon
Sources:
William Penn. 1683. XXXXXXXXXXX
Language: Powhatan
Collector: John Smith
Date of collection: 1607
Site of collection: Jamestown, Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 99
Featured in:
ALR Volume 4, A Vocabulary of
Powhatan
Sources:
John Smith. 1624. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England,
and the Summer Isles with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and
Governours from their first beginning An. 1584 to this present 1624.
London.
Pamunkey (Dalrymple 1858)
Language: Pamunkey
Collector: Edwin A. Dalrymple
Date of collection: 1858
Site of collection: Pamunkey town, King William County Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 17
Featured in:
ALR Volume 4, A Vocabulary of
Powhatan
Sources:
Edwin A. Dalrymple. 1858. Historical Magazine and
Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography
of America. 1st ser., Vol. 2 p. 182.
Language: Nansemond
Collector: James Mooney
Date of collection: 1901
Site of collection: Nansemon, Virginia
Orthography: English phonetic
Informant: William W. Weaver
Number of Entries: 6
Featured in:
ALR Volume 4, A Vocabulary of
Powhatan
Sources:
James Mooney. 1907. "The Powhatan Confederacy."
American
Anthropologist, Vol. 9, p. 146.
Unami Delaware (Anonymous 1684)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: unknown
Date of collection: 1684
Site of collection: Salem, New Jersey
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 256
Featured in:
ALR Volume 5, An Ancient New
Jersey Indian Jargon
Sources:
J. Dyneley Prince. 1912. "An Ancient New Jersey Indian
Jargon,"
American Anthropologist vol. 14, p. 508-524.
Unami Delaware (Thomas 1698)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: Gabriel Thomas
Date of collection: 1698
Site of collection: Lower Delaware River,
Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries:
Featured in:
ALR Volume 5, An Ancient New
Jersey Indian Jargon
Sources:
Gabriel Thomas. 1903 [1698]. An Account of Pennsylvania and
West New Jersey. Cleveland:Burrows Brothers.
Language: Tuscarora
Collector: John Lawson
Date of collection: 1709
Site of collection: Eastern North Carolina
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 187
Featured in:
ALR Volume 6, A Vocabulary of
Tuscarora
Sources:
John Lawson. 1709. A New Voyage to Carolina. London.
Language: Woccon
Collector: John Lawson
Date of collection: 1709
Site of collection: Eastern North Carolina
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 144
Featured in:
ALR Volume 7, A Vocabulary of
Woccon
Sources:
John Lawson. 1709. A New Voyage to Carolina. London.
Language: Powhatan
Collector: William Strachey
Date of collection: 1612
Site of collection: Jamestown, Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 1475
Featured in:
ALR Volume 8, A Dictionary of
Powhatan
Sources:
William Strachey. 1849 [1624]. The Historie
of Travaile into Virginia Britannia. London:Hakluyt Society.
Powhatan (Anonymous 1607)
Language: Powhatan
Collector: Gabriel Archer (?)
Date of collection: 1607
Site of collection: James River, Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 9
Featured in:
ALR Volume 8, A Dictionary of
Powhatan
Sources:
Anonymous [Gabriel Archer?]. 1860. "A relatyon of the Discovery of our
River, from James Forte ino the Maine"
American Antiquarian Society,
Archaeologia Americana IV.
Language: Powhatan
Collector: Robert Beverley
Date of collection: 1705
Site of collection: Eastern Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 29
Featured in:
ALR Volume 8, A Dictionary of
Powhatan
Sources:
Robert Beverley. 1705. The History and Present State of
Virginia. London.
Mohegan-Pequot (Prince & Speck 1904)
Language: Mohegan-Pequot
Collector: Frank G. Speck
Date of collection: 1903
Site of collection: Mohegan, Connecticut
Orthography: English
Informant: Fidelia A. H. Fielding
Number of Entries: 465
Featured in:
ALR Volume 9, A Vocabulary of
Mohegan-Pequot
Sources:
J. Dyneley Prince and Frank G. Speck. 1904. "Glossary of the
Mohegan-Pequot Language."
American Anthropologist, 6(1):18-45.
Unami Delaware (Madison 1792)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: James Madison (?)
Date of collection: 1792
Site of collection: Edgepillock, New Jersey
Orthography: English/French
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 258
Featured in:
ALR Volume 10, A Vocabulary
of New Jersey Delaware
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1853. Information respecting the History,
Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.
Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company. Part III, pp. 424-427.
Unami Delaware (DeLaet 1633)
Language: Delaware (Sanhican dialect)
Collector: Johannes DeLaet
Date of collection: 1633
Site of collection: Central New Jersey
Orthography: Dutch/Latin
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 74
Featured in:
ALR Volume 10, A Vocabulary
of New Jersey Delaware
Sources:
Johannes DeLaet. 1633. Novus orbis seu Descriptionis Indiae
occidentalis. Leiden:Elzevier.
Stadaconan (Cartier 1535)
Language: Stadaconan
Collector: Jacques Cartier
Date of collection: 1535
Site of collection: Stadacona (now Quebec City)
Orthography: French
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 58
Featured in:
ALR Volume 11: A Vocabulary
of Stadaconan
Sources:
Henry P. Biggar, ed. 1924.
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier:
Published from the Originals with Translations, Notes, and Appendices.
Ottawa:Publications of the Public Archives of Canada 11.
Language: Stadaconan
Collector: Jacques Cartier
Date of collection: 1536-7
Site of collection: Stadacona (now Quebec City)
Orthography: French
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 175
Featured in:
ALR Volume 11: A Vocabulary
of Stadaconan
Sources:
Henry P. Biggar, ed. 1924.
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier:
Published from the Originals with Translations, Notes, and Appendices.
Ottawa:Publications of the Public Archives of Canada 11.
Unami Delaware (Denny 1785)
Language: Delaware (Unami dialect)
Collector: Ebenezer Denny
Date of collection: 1785
Site of collection: Fort McIntosh, Beaver and Ohio Rivers
Pennsylvania
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 232
Featured in:
ALR Volume 12: Denny's
Vocabulary of Delaware
Sources:
Ebenezer Denny. 1860. A Military Journal kept by Ebenezer
Denny, 1781-1795. Memoirs of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, vol. 7. Philadelphia:J.B.Lippincott & Co.
Language: Roanoke
Collector: Thomas Hariot
Date of collection: 1585
Site of collection: Roanoke Island
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 36
Featured in:
ALR Volume 13: A Vocabulary
of Roanoke
Sources:
Thomas Hariot. 1590. A brief and True report of the new found
land of Virginia. Frankfurt:Theodor de Bry.
Language: Roanoke
Collector: Thomas Hariot
Date of collection: 1585
Site of collection: Roanoke Island
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 50
Featured in:
ALR Volume 13: A Vocabulary
of Roanoke
Sources:
Edward E. Hale, ed. 1860. "Report of the Publishing Commitee."
American
Antiquarian Society Proceedings, no. 32, pp. 33-46.
Language: Roanoke
Collector: Ralph Lane
Date of collection: 1586
Site of collection: Roanoke Island
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 5
Featured in:
ALR Volume 13: A Vocabulary
of Roanoke
Sources:
Richard Hakluyt. 1904 [1589].
The Principal Navigations
Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation, pp.
320-345. New York:Macmillan.
Language: Roanoke
Collector: Ralph Lane
Date of collection: 1602
Site of collection: Roanoke Island
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 1
Featured in:
ALR Volume 13: A Vocabulary
of Roanoke
Sources:
Quinn, David B. 1970. "Thomas Hariot and the Virginia Voyages of 1602."
William and Mary Quarterly, 3d. ser. 27(2): pp. 268-281.
Language: Pamlico
Collector: John Lawson
Date of collection: 1709
Site of collection: Eastern North Carolina
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 37
Featured in:
ALR Volume 13: A Vocabulary
of Roanoke
Sources:
John Lawson. 1709. A New Voyage to Carolina. London.
Language: Shawnee
Collector: Ebenezer Denny
Date of collection: 1786
Site of collection: Fort Finney, Miami and Ohio Rivers, Ohio
Orthography: English
Informant: Nonhelema "the Grenadier Squaw"
Number of Entries: 401
Featured in:
ALR Volume 14: Denny's
Vocabulary of Shawnee
Sources:
Ebenezer Denny. 1860. A Military Journal kept by Ebenezer
Denny, 1781-1795. Memoirs of the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, vol. 7. Philadelphia:J.B.Lippincott & Co.
Unami Delaware (Cummings 1852)
Language: Unami Delaware
Collector: Richard W. Cummings
Date of collection: 1852
Site of collection: Kansas River,
Kansas
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 338
Featured in:
ALR Volume 15: Cummings
Vocabulary of Delaware
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the History,
Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.
Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Mohawk (Van den Bogaert 1635)
Language: Mohawk
Collector: Harmen M. van den Bogaert
Date of collection: 1635
Site of collection: Mohawk village, New York
Orthography: Dutch
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 201
Featured in:
ALR Volume 16: Early
Vocabularies of Mohawk
Sources:
James Grant Wilson. 1895. "Corlear and his journal of
1634."
The Independent 47 (October 3, 1895).
James Grant Wilson. 1896. "Arent van Curler
and His Journal of 1634-35."
American Historical Association Annual
Report for 1895, pp. 81-101.
J. Franklin Jameson, ed. 1909. Narratives of New
Netherland, 1609-1664. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons.
Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. 1988.
A journey into Mohawk
and Oneida Country, 1634-1635. Charles T. Gehring
and William A. Starna, eds. Syracuse NY:Syracuse University
Press.
Language: Mohawk
Collector: Nicolaes Janszoon van Wassenaer
Date of collection: 1635
Site of collection: Mohawk village, New York
Orthography: Dutch
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 21
Featured in:
ALR Volume 16: Early
Vocabularies of Mohawk
Sources:
J. Franklin Jameson, ed. 1909. Narratives
of New Netherland, 1609-1664. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mohawk (Megapolensis 1644)
Language: Mohawk
Collector: Johannes Megapolensis
Date of collection: 1644
Site of collection: Mohawk village, New York
Orthography: Dutch
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 14
Featured in:
ALR Volume 16: Early
Vocabularies of Mohawk
Sources:
J. Franklin Jameson, ed. 1909. Narratives of New
Netherland, 1609-1664. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons.
Oneida (Shearman and Schoolcraft 1846)
Language: Oneida
Collector: Richard Updike Shearman
Date of collection: 1845
Site of collection: Vernon, New York
Orthography: English
Informant: "Johnson"
Number of Entries: 295
Featured in:
ALR Volume 17: Schoolcraft's
Vocabulary of Oneida
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1846. Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the
Secretary of State. NY State Senate Document 24 (Jan. 22,
1846).
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1847. Notes on the Iroquois; Or,
Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities, and
General Ethnology of Western New York. Albany, NY:Erastus H. Pease.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the
History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the
United States. Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Onondaga (Schoolcraft 1847)
Language: Onondaga
Collector: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Date of collection: 1847
Site of collection: Onondaga,
New York
Orthography: English
Informant: Abraham La Fort
Number of Entries: 211
Featured in:
ALR Volume 19: Schoolcraft's
Vocabulary of Onondaga
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1846. Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the
Secretary of State. NY State Senate Document 24 (Jan. 22, 1846).
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1847. Notes on the
Iroquois; Or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History,
Antiquities, and General Ethnology of Western New York. Albany,
NY:Erastus
H. Pease.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the
History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United
States. Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Language: Cayuga
Collector: Adam Elliot
Date of collection: 1845
Site of collection: Six Nations Reserve (?)
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 315
Featured in:
ALR Volume 18: Elliot's
Vocabulary of Cayuga
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1846. Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the
Secretary of State. NY State Senate Document 24 (Jan. 22,
1846).
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1847. Notes on the Iroquois; Or,
Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities, and
General Ethnology of Western New York. Albany, NY:Erastus H. Pease.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the
History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the
United States. Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Language: Mohawk
Collector: Adam Elliot
Date of collection: 1845
Site of collection: Six Nations Reserve (?)
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 318
Featured in:
ALR Volume 20: Elliot's
Vocabulary
of Mohawk
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1846. Report of Mr. Schoolcraft to the
Secretary of State. NY State Senate Document 24 (Jan. 22, 1846).
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1847. Notes on the Iroquois; Or,
Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities, and
General Ethnology of Western New York. Albany, NY:Erastus H. Pease.
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information
respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes
of the United States. Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Language: Shawnee
Collector: Richard W. Cummings
Date of collection: 1851
Site of collection: Kansas
River, Kansas
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 346
Featured in:
ALR Volume 21: Cummings'
Vocabulary of Shawnee
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the History,
Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.
Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Language: Seneca
Collector: Anonymous, War Department
Date of collection: 1826
Site of collection: Western New York
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 497
Featured in:
ALR Volume 22: A Vocabulary
of Seneca
Sources:
Albert Gallatin. 1836. A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes
Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the
British and Russian Possessions in North America.
Archaeologia
Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian
Society 2, pp. 1-422. Cambridge, Mass.
Language: Seneca
Collector: J. Parish
Date of collection: 1820
Site of collection: Western New York
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 120
Featured in:
ALR Volume 22: A Vocabulary
of Seneca
Sources:
Peter Stephen Duponceau. 1820. Indian Vocabularies.
American Indian Vocabulary Collection, American Philosophical Society.
Albert Gallatin. 1836. A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes
Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the
British and Russian Possessions in North America.
Archaeologia
Americana: Transactions and Collections of the American Antiquarian
Society 2, pp. 1-422. Cambridge, Mass.
Language: Tutelo-Saponi
Collector: Horatio Hale
Date of collection: 1870
Site of collection: Six Nations Reserve, near Brantford Ontario
Orthography:
Informant: Nikonha
Number of Entries: 515
Featured in:
ALR Volume 23, The Tutelo
Language
Source:
Hale, Horatio. 1883. "The Tutelo Tribe and Language".
Proceedings
of the American Philosophical Society 21(114):1-47.
Language: Miami
Collector: Charles N. Handy
Date of collection: 1852
Site of collection: Osage
River, Kansas
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 250
Featured in:
ALR Volume 24: Handy's
Vocabulary
of Miami
Sources:
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. 1851-1857. Information respecting the History,
Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.
Philadelphia:Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Language: Mahican
Collector: Jonathan Edwards
Date of collection: 1788
Site of collection: Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Orthography: English
Informant: Jonathan Edwards
Number of Entries: 144
Featured in:
ALR Volume 25: Observations
on the Mahican Language
Sources:
Jonathan Edwards. 1788.
Observations on the Language of
the Muhhekaneew Indians. New Haven:Josiah Meigs.
Language: Tutelo-Saponi
Collector: Edward Sapir
Date of collection: 1911
Site of collection: Six
Nations Reserve, Ontario
Orthography: phonetic
Informant: Andrew Sprague
Number of Entries: 55
Featured in:
ALR Volume 26: Minor
Vocabularies of Tutelo and Saponi
Sources:
Edward Sapir. 1913. "A Tutelo Vocabulary."
American
Anthropologist, n.s. 15(2):295-297.
Tutelo (Frachtenberg 1913)
Language: Tutelo-Saponi
Collector: Leo Frachtenberg
Date of collection: 1907
Site of collection: Six Nations Reserve, Ontario
Orthography: phonetic
Informant: Lucy Buck
Number of Entries: 86
Featured in:
ALR Volume 26: Minor
Vocabularies of Tutelo and Saponi
Sources:
Leo Frachtenberg. 1913. "Contributions to a Tutelo
Vocabulary."
American Anthropologist, n.s. 15(3):477-479.
Language: Tutelo-Saponi
Collector: John Fontaine
Date of collection: 1716
Site of collection: Fort Christanna, Virginia
Orthography: English
Informant: unknown
Number of Entries: 54
Featured in:
ALR Volume 26: Minor
Vocabularies of Tutelo and Saponi
Sources:
Edward Alexander, ed. 1972.
The Journal of
John Fontaine. Williamsburg:The Colonial Williamsburg
Foundation.
Language: Tutelo-Saponi
Collector: William Byrd
Date of collection: 1728
Site of collection: Fort Christanna, Virginia
Orthography: phonetic
Informant: Bearskin
Number of Entries: 23
Featured in:
ALR Volume 26: Minor
Vocabularies of Tutelo and Saponi
Sources:
William K. Boyd, ed. 1929.
William Byrd's Histories of the
Dividing Line betwixt Virginia and North Carolina. Raleigh:North
Carolina Historical Commission.