Scope and content:The collection is organized into three series, which reflect the major types of materials in the collection. Series 1 contains grammatical and lexical notes on Potawatomi, along with field notes from Laura Welcher. Series 2 contains materials related to the work of Charles Hockett including field notes, lexical file slips, and texts. Series 3 contains a variety of materials collected by Laura Welcher, including field notes, educational materials, and historical documents relating to the Potawatomi language.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Laura Buszard-Welcher. Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language, Welcher, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11090.
Associated materials:Recordings of Potawatomi can be found in the Potawatomi audio recordings (LA 185).
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Extent:1 booklet (228 pp.)
Description:Draft Potawatomi grammar notes, including several chapters of a larger work in progress by Laura Buszard-Welcher. Also includes photocopies of: 'Native American writing systems' by Willard Walker; 'The Cree syllabary', Unit 26 of 'Spoken Cree' by C. Douglas Ellis (1983); excerpt from 'A concise dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe', by John Nichols and Earl Nyholm; excerpt from 'Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa dictionary', by Richard Rhodes.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Neshnabémwen: The Potawatomi Language: Grammatical Notes, Welcher.001.001, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14849.
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Extent:1 folder (58 pp.)
Description:Unorganized assorted notes for Potawatomi dictionary preparation
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Potawatomi dictionary lexical notes], Welcher.001.002, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14850.
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Extent:1 folder
Description:Loose handwritten notes; photocopied lessons and notes; on original folder: "Speaker elicitations"
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Welcher Potawatomi field notes], Welcher.001.003, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14851.
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Extent:1 notebook (85 pp.)
Description:On cover: "I Jim Spear"; sentences and texts
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi field notebook I], Welcher.002.001, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14852.
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Extent:1 notebook (64 pp.)
Description:On cover: "II Alice Spear"; mostly texts
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi field notebook II], Welcher.002.002, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14853.
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Extent:1 notebook (44 pp.)
Description:On cover: "III Jim Spear"; texts, largely untranslated
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi field notebook III], Welcher.002.003, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14854.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi field notebook IV], Welcher.002.004, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14855.
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Extent:1 box
Description:Hockett's fileslips (box 1 of 2) with alphabetic lexicon in morphophonemic notation (as published in dissertation) and beginning of various slips classed by constituent morphological elements (continued in box 2)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett fileslips I], Welcher.002.005, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14856.
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Extent:1 grey file box
Description:Hockett's fileslips (box 2 of 2) with various slips classed by constituent morpological elements (continued from box 1)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett fileslips II], Welcher.002.006, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14857.
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Extent:1 folder (34 pp.)
Description:Photocopy of various typed untranslated Potawatomi texts from Hockett's field notebooks; transcribed 1938 August 16
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi texts I], Welcher.002.007, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14858.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi texts II], Welcher.002.008, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14859.
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Extent:1 folder (18 pp.)
Description:Various typed and translated Potawatomi texts
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi texts III], Welcher.002.009, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14860.
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Extent:1 folder (26 pp.)
Description:6 hand-transcribed texts. 1: story by Alice Spear of white men meeting Indians; 2: story about Coon and Wolf; 3: story about an Indian and his pet coon; 4: story about an old woman and rabbit-boy; 5: story about a man-turtle; 6: story about coon and some crawdads
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hockett Potawatomi texts IV], Welcher.002.010, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14861.
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Extent:1 folder (64 pp.)
Description:Draft of a booklet for teaching Potawatomi
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Potawatomi Booklet - Draft, Welcher.003.001, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14862.
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Extent:1 folder (15 pp.)
Description:4 pages of handwritten notes, and photocopy of 11 pages of handwritten notes from Mike Alloway's grandmother, Mary George; on original folder: "Forest County lg class July 2008"
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Forest County language class notes], Welcher.003.002, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14863.
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Extent:1 booklet (54 pp.)
Description:Lessons in reading and writing Potawatomi in the old style; includes marginalia by Laura Buszard-Welcher
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: The old Potawatomi language, Welcher.003.003, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14864.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Bodewadmimwen: Nizh Mbook: Potawatomi language book two, Welcher.003.004, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14865.
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Extent:1 book
Description:Illustrated simple Potawatomi vocabulary for children; written in the standard writing system, but some examples also include the 'old' writing system, or a pseudo-phonetic representation
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Potawatomi for children: an illustrated alphabet, Welcher.003.005, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14866.
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Extent:1 booklet
Description:Manual for teaching Potawatomi; includes language lessons as well as supplementary sections aimed at elementary school children
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Potawatomi language manual: resource materials and training exercises, Welcher.003.006, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14867.
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Extent:1 folder
Description:"Méméjek bodéwadmimwen mine wzhebyégéwen"; notes from a Potawatomi language course, typed and handwritten
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Potawatomi language class notes], Welcher.003.007, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14868.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Potawatomi lexical notes (Jim Thunder)], Welcher.003.008, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14869.
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Extent:1 manila folder
Description:Typed vocabulary and sentences; on original folder: "Perrote, Don + (Ruby Shuckahosee?)"
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Potawatomi notes (Don Perrote)], Welcher.003.009, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14870.
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Extent:1 folder (24 pp.)
Description:Photocopied excerpt from "Indian materials: Voc. 13". Compares words from three different sources on Miami (Volney 1798, Handy 1850, Dunn 1905) with their Potawatomi (Dunn 1905) counterparts; copy made by Indiana State Library.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Miami-Potawatomi comparative word list], Welcher.003.010, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14871.
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Extent:1 folder (4 pp.)
Description:Photocopied excerpt from "Indian materials: Voc. 13". Additional Potawatomi words
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Potawatomi word list], Welcher.003.011, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14872.
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Extent:1 folder
Description:Photocopy of "Indian materials: Vocab 14, 15, 17"; field notebook pp.255-291 (odd pp. only); copy made by Indiana State Library
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Dunn Potawatomi field notes], Welcher.003.012, in "Laura Buszard-Welcher Papers on the Potawatomi language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14873.
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