Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
J.A. Cuoq letters
Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-206
Abstract
Five letters, 1879-1894, from J.A. Cuoq to James Constantine Pilling, an American ethnologist particularly interested in Indian languages, who compiled comprehensive bibliographies on the topic and assembled the renowned library of the Bureau of American Ethnology. In Cuoq's responses to Pilling's apparent requests for copies of his works, he notes in an 1879 letter that all copies of requested volumes were destroyed in an 1877 fire at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. Later notes concern the...
Dates:
1879-1894
John Norton papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT oversize-Ayer-MS-654
Abstract
Schoolmaster, interpreter, Mohawk chief, army officer, and author; also known as Teyoninhokarawen. Probably born in Scotland of Cherokee and Scottish parents, Norton was adopted by the Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant, as nephew, deputy, and successor (appointed non-hereditary chief for war and diplomacy in 1799). Addresses and correspondence of John Norton, with speeches and petitions of the Grand River Indians, chiefly dating 1804-1810. Includes a contemporary copy of "The address of...
Dates:
1804-1816; Majority of material found within 1804-1810
Filtered By
- Subject: Manuscripts, Canadian X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Algonquian languages 1
- Bible. John. Mohawk. Norton. 1804 -- Publishing -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Correspondence -- Canada -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- England -- 1801-1850 1
- Correspondence -- Québec (Province) -- Montreal -- 1851-1900 1
- Correspondence -- Québec (Province) -- Oka -- 1851-1900 1
- Cuoq, J. A. (Jean Andre), 1821-1898. Anotc keton. 1
- Cuoq, J. A. (Jean Andre), 1821-1898. Lexique de la langue iroquoise. 1
- Ethnologists -- Washington (D.C.) -- Correspondence 1
- Grand River (Ont.) -- History -- Sources 1
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
- Indians of North America -- Québec (Province) -- Québec -- Languages 1
- Indigenous peoples -- Great Britain -- Colonies 1
- Iroquoian languages 1
- Iroquois Indians -- Government relations -- History -- Sources 1
- Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes (Québec : Seigneurie) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Land grants -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
- Letter books -- 1801-1850 1
- Linguists -- Québec (Province) -- Montreal -- Correspondence 1
- Manuscripts, English 1
- Mohawk Indians -- Ontario -- Grand River -- History -- Sources 1
- Speeches -- Canada -- 1801-1850 1
- Speeches -- England -- 1801-1850 1 + ∧ less
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