Historical information:Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. His fieldwork on Kashaya (Southwestern Pomo) began in 1957 and led to his dissertation, A Kashaya Grammar, and the publication of the book Kashaya Texts in 1964. Dr. Oswalt continued to work on Pomoan languages until 2005, conducting fieldwork on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, and Central Pomo and exploring the historical relationships within the Pomoan family. The Kashaya and Southern Pomo dictionaries that Dr. Oswalt compiled during his decades of fieldwork on those languages were never published.
Scope and content:These Papers document the linguistic work of Robert Oswalt, including his fieldwork on Pomoan languages and Yuki, Kru-Gbato, Aleut, and Bribri, his research on historical linguistics and other linguistic topics, and his professional activities. The papers include field notebooks containing vocabulary and elicited sentences for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo and Central Pomo, with additional longer texts in Kashaya and Southern Pomo, vocabulary file slips for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Central Pomo, as well as notes on grammar and Pomoan cognates. His primary consultants for Kashaya were Essie Parrish and Bernice Scott Torrez, and his Kashaya consultants also included David Antone, Violet Parrish Chappelle, Gladys James Gonzales, Allen James, Herman James, Mary James, Milton (Bun) Lucas, Vana Lawson, Kate Marando, Julia Pinola Marrufo, Sidney Parrish, Laura Fish Somersall, and Vivian Wilder. His primary consultants for Southern Pomo were Elsie Allen and Elizabeth Dollar and his Southern Pomo consultants also included Olive Fulwilder Effie Mabel Luff, Lucy Andrews Macy, and Laura Fish Somersall. His Northeastern Pomo consultants included Oscar McDaniel and Sharky Moore, his Northern Pomo consultants included Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, and his Central Pomo consultants included Salome Bartlett Alcantra, Frank Luff, and Clara Williams. He conducted Aleut fieldwork with consultant Kathryn Seller and Bribri fieldwork with consultant Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues. His consultants for Yuki included Arthur Anderson and Bill Frank. The Papers include oral histories collected from linguist Abraham Halpern and Pomoan language consultants Essie Parrish, Elizabeth Dollar, Elsie Allen as well as photocopies of Kashaya and Southern Pomo genealogical and census records and other documents and material related to Pomoan languages, ethnography, and history. Research notes and photocopies of materials on methods for historical linguistics and several other linguistic topics are also contained in the Papers. Drafts of manuscripts and conference handouts created during Dr. Oswalt's career, including incomplete drafts of his Kashaya dictionary, are also included in the collection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elsie Allen, Elizabeth Dollar, Edna Guerrero, Achora Hanyava, Annie Lake, Milton "Bun" Lucas, Oscar McDaniel, Sharky Moore, Essie Parrish, Bernice Scott Torrez, Clara Williams, and Robert L. Oswalt. Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages, Oswalt, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C24TDG.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 98).
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Albert Reifel. The Albert Reifel collection of Lakota sound recordings, PHM 22, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11022.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; ethnographic data; songs; conversation in English. English glosses provided.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Margaret Mae One Bull Tremmel and Guy Tyler. The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings, LA 221, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10191.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Ruby Swiftbird, Stella Swiftbird, and Terrence Kaufman. The Terrence Kaufman collection of Lakhota sound recordings, LA 73, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10084.
Preferred citation: Continuation of duplicated recording. Focus on war and those who died in war., LA 221.016, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19742.
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Preferred citation: Continuation of duplication of recording about Sitting Bull's life, death, and descendants, LA 221.014, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19740.
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Preferred citation: Continuation of the duplication of recording about Sitting Bull's sacred cloth. Includes commentary on the sacred cloth song., LA 221.012, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19738.
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Preferred citation: Continued elicitation from the Buechel grammar, LA 221.030, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19756.
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Preferred citation: Continued elicitation from the Buechel grammar. Includes discussion of verbs and pronouns., LA 221.029, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19755.
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Preferred citation: Conversation about vocabulary and grammar. Some elicitations from a published grammar., LA 221.028, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19754.
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Preferred citation: Discussion about Lakota reservations and the language, LA 221.032, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19758.
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Preferred citation: Discussion about Lakota sweatbaths and polygamy, LA 221.022, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19748.
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Preferred citation: Discussion about the consultant and her culture, LA 221.002, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19728.
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Preferred citation: Discussion of cultural history, LA 221.017, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19743.
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Preferred citation: Duplication of a recording of a monologue about Sitting Bull's life and death, LA 221.010, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19736.
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Preferred citation: Duplication of a tape belonging to the consultant, LA 221.007, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19733.
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Preferred citation: Duplication of recording about Sitting Bull. Focus on a sacred cloth., LA 221.024, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19750.
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Preferred citation: Eliciation of basic vocabulary items including animals, adjectives, and nature terms., LA 221.019, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19745.
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Preferred citation: Eliciation of basic vocabulary related to Lakota culture, LA 221.021, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19747.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of a variety of words and phrases. Includes cooking terms and words related to bathing and grooming., LA 221.025, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19751.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of conversational phrases, LA 221.031, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19757.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of kinship terms. Also with words and phrases related to religion and morality., LA 221.026, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19752.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of miscellaneous words and phrases. Includes "How are you?" and "I want to know.", LA 221.018, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19744.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of simple words and phrases including possesive phrases, LA 221.003, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19729.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of simple words and phrases. Includes such phrases as "I love you" and "The thunder is loud.", LA 221.020, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19746.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases especially related to people and kinship, LA 221.001, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19727.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases related to sex and children, LA 221.027, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19753.
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Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and prhases related to sweatbaths, fishing, and cooking, LA 221.023, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19749.
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Preferred citation: Hunkpapa Omaha war dance song, LA 221.005, in "The Guy Tyler collection of Lakota sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19731.
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