Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

Pequot and Related Languages

A Bibliography

 

 

 

Aubin, George Francis. "More on Narragansett Keesuckquand." International Journal of American Linguistics 41 (1975): 239-40.

MICROFILM

 

________. "Roger Williams: Another View." International Journal of American Linguistics 38 (1972): 266-7.

MICROFILM

 

Boas, Franz. "Introduction." Handbook of American Indian Languages. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 40 (1911): 1-83.

READING ROOM: PM 108 .B7 1911

 

Costa, David J. “The Dialectology of Southern New England Algonquian.” Papers of the Thirty-Eighth Algonquian Conference. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2007.

READING ROOM: LOCHIST E 99 .A35 A44 2007

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Cotton, Josiah. "Vocabulary of the Massachusetts (or Natick) Indian Language." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Series 3 Volume 2 (1830): 147-257.

READING ROOM: F 61 .M41 1830 Ser. 3 Vol. 2

 

Cowan, William. "General Treat's Vocabulary of Narragansett." In Papers of the Thirteenth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa: Carleton University, 1982.

READING ROOM: LOCHIST E 99 .A35 A44 1982

 

________. "PA *a, *k and *t in Narragansett." International Journal of American Linguistics 35 (1969): 28-33.

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________ 1. "Pequot From Stiles to Speck." International Journal of American Linguistics 39 (1973): 164-172.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Day, Gordon M. "An Agawam Fragment." International Journal of American Linguistics 33 (1967): 244-7.

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________ 2. "The Indian Languages of the Upper Connecticut Valley." In The Connecticut Valley Indian: An Introduction to Their Archaeology and History. Springfield, MA: Springfield Museum of Science, 1969.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

De Forest, John W. “The Lord’s Prayer in the Pequot Tongue.” In History of the Indians of Connecticut. 1852. Reprint, Brighton, MI: Native American Book Publishers, 1994.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .C7 D4 1994

 

Edwards, Jonathan. Observations on the Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians; in which the Extent of that Language in North-America is Shewn; its Genius is Grammatically Traced;

Some of its Peculiarities, and Some Instances of Analogy Between That and the Hebrew are Pointed Out. New Haven: Josiah Meigs, 1788.

MICROFILM: ACS 160.1

 

Gatschet, Albert S. "Narragansett Vocabulary Collected in 1879." International Journal of American Linguistics 39 (1973): 14.

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Goddard, Ives and Kathleen J. Bragdon. Native Writings in Massachusett. 2 Volumes. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society, 1988.

READING ROOM: REF PM 1737 .G63 1988

 

Goddard, Robert Hale Ives, III. "More on Nasalization of PA *a in Eastern Algonquian." International Journal of American Linguistics 37 (1971): 139-45.

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Hamp, Eric P. "On Nasalization in Narragansett." International Journal of American Linguistics 36 (1970): 58-9.

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Holmes, A. "Memoir of the Mohegans." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Series 1 Volume 9 (1804): 75-99.

READING ROOM: F 61 .M41 1804 Ser. 1 Vol. 9

 

Michelson, Truman. "The Linguistic Classification of Pequot-Mohegan." American Anthropologist 26 (1924): 295.

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________. "Notes on Algonquian Languages." International Journal of American Linguistics 1 (1917): 50-7.

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Mierle, Shelley. "Further Evidence Regarding the Intrusive Nasal in Narragansett." International Journal of American Linguistics 41 (1975): 78-80.

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Pentland, David H. and H. Christoph Wolfart. Bibliography of Algonquian Linguistics. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1982.

READING ROOM: Z 7119 .A4 P46 1982

 

The Narragansett Dawn.  Miscellaneous  articles on the Narragansett Language.

     "Lesson Two in Narragansett Tongue." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (June 1935): 14-5.

     "Lesson No. Three in Narragansett Tongue." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (July 1935): 10.

     "The Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 4.” The Narragansett Dawn 1 (August 1935): 88-9.

     "The Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 5." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (September 1935): 122-4.

     "Narragansett Lesson No. 6." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (October 1935): 138-9.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lessons 7 and 8." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (December 1935): 185-7.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 9." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (January 1936): 204.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 10." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (February 1936): 232.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 11." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (March 1936): 259-60.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 12." The Narragansett Dawn 1 (April 1936): 287.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 13." The Narragansett Dawn 2 (May 1936): 5.

     "Narragansett Tongue- Lesson 14." The Narragansett Dawn 2 (June 1936): 29.

     "Narragansett Words." The Narragansett Dawn 2 (October 1936): 6.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Pickering, John, ed. "Doctor Edwards' Observations on the Mohegan Languages." Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Series 2 Volume 10 (1823): 81-160.

READING ROOM: F 61 .M41 1823 Vol. 10 Ser. 2

 

Pilling, James Constantine. Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 13. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1891.

READING ROOM: E 51 .B85 1891 no. 13

 

Prince, J. Dyneley and Frank G. Speck 1. "Dying American Speech-Echoes from Connecticut." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge 42 (1903): 346-52.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

________ 2. "Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language." American Anthropologist 6 (1904): 18-45.

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READING ROOM: PM 1885 .P8 A25 1999

 

________ 3. "The Modern Pequots and Their Language." American Anthropologist 5 (1903): 193-212.

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Proulx, Paul. "Proto-Algonquian '*aye' and its Implications." International Journal of American Linguistics 50 (1984): 84-93.

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Rees-Miller, Janie 1. “Morphological Adaptation of English Loanwords in Algonquian.”

International Journal of American Linguistics 62 (1996): 196-202. (incomplete copy)

REFERENCE: Article File

 

_______ 2. “Stages in the Obsolescence of Certain Eastern Algonquian Languages.” Anthropological Linguistics 40 (1998): 535-569.

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Silver, Shirley. "Natick Consonants in Reference to Proto-Central Algonquian." International Journal of American Linguistics 26 (1960): 234-41.

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Speck, Frank 4. "A Modern Mohegan-Pequot Text." American Anthropologist 6 (1904): 469-76.

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________and Fidelia Fielding 2. "A Pequot Mohegan Witchcraft Tale." Journal of American Folklore 16 (1903): 104-6.

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________ 6. "Native Tribes and Dialects of Connecticut: A Mohegan-Pequot Diary." Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 43 (1903): 199-287.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

________. Speck Papers and Photograph Collection. (17 Reels)

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________ 3. "Text of the Pequot Sermon." American Anthropologist 5 (1903): 199-212.

REFERENCE: Article File

 

Stone, Gaynell and Nancy Bonvillain. Languages and Lore of the Long Island Indians. Stony Brook, NY: Suffolk County Archaeological Association, 1980.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 78 .N7 L33 1980

 

Swadesh, Morris. "Sociologic Notes on Obsolescent Languages." International Journal of American Linguistics 14 (1948): 226-35.

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Trumbull, James Hammond. Natick Dictionary. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 25. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903.

READING ROOM: PM 1738 .T78 1903

 

________. “On Algonkin Names for Man.” The Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1871.

MICROFICHE: PAH I-1412

 

________. “On Some Mistaken Notions of Algonkin Grammar, and on Mistranslations of Words from Eliot’s Bible, etc.” The Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1869-1870.

MICROFICHE: PAH I-1409

 

________. “On Some Words derived from Languages of North American Indians.” The Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1872.

MICROFICHE: PAH I-1200

 

________. “On the Best Method of Studying the American Languages.” The Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1869-1870.

MICROFICHE: PAH I-1403

 

Williams, Roger. A Key into the Language of America. 1643. Reprint, Beford, MA: Applewoods Books, 1997.

READING ROOM: Pequot E99 .N16 W7 1997

 

 

 

Revised January 2008 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Information Resources Department – S.N.