MS 1875 Sixteen Fox stories with translations collected by Truman Michelson
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1875
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Texts and Translations Legends" 3/18/2014.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Bullard, Jack
label: Creator
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Creator
content: Lasley, Lucy
label: Creator
content: Sakihtanohkweha, 1875-1957
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Ida
place: label: Place
content: Tama (Iowa)
topic: label: Topic
content: Fox language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Bullard, Jack
label: Creator
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Creator
content: Lasley, Lucy
label: Creator
content: Sakihtanohkweha, 1875-1957
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Ida
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 25 Items (0.25 linear feet (approximately 745 pages)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1875
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Folklore
label: Type
content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The description of this manuscript was updated in 2024 based on information provided by Dr. Patricia Afable, Research Assistant to the Linguistic Editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, and Dr. Lucy Thomason, National Museum of Natural History Museum Technician (linguistics).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
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content: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains fifteen stories by Jack Bullard, Alfred Kiyana, Lucy Lasley, Bill Leaf, Sâkihtanohkwêha, and an unidentified author, handwritten in Meskwaki syllabary, with English translations by Ida Poweshiek, and a sixteenth story in English by Ida Poweshiek. The texts include a story by Lucy Lasley and Jack Bullard whosae title can be translated as "The Winter Story of Longhair;" a story by Bill Leaf about fasting visions; a story by Bill Leaf about a man who was a fast runner; a story by Bill Leaf about a boy who gets lost in the snow; a story by Bill Leaf about a Meskwaki and Pawnee peace council; a story by Bill Leaf about two women who have a narrow escape from enemies; half of Sâkihtanohkwêha's winter story about the Meskwaki culture hero (Wîsahkêha) (the other half is in Manuscript 1879); a winter story by Alfred Kiyana whose title can be translated as "The youth who became corn and the Indians of long ago who grew as all different kinds of things;" a story by Bill Leaf whose title can be translated as "The winter story of when the rooster with silver feet said, 'Ah, Shashanwiyon!';" a winter story by Jack Bullard and an anonymous author whose title can be translated as "Lacrosse-Ball Owner;" a story by Alfred Kiyana whose title can be translated as "The One Who Loved Her Brother;" a winter story by Alfred Kiyana whose title can be translated as "The ones who were taken into the sky by a bear;" a winter story by Lucy Lasley and Jack Bullard whose title can be translated as "The One Who Loved Her Brother;" a winter story by Alfred Kiyana whose title can be translated as "The ones who were taken into the sky by a bear;" a winter story by Lucy Lasley and Jack Bullard whose title can be translated as "Keshakiwa's Way;" a winter story by Bill Leaf whose title can be translated as "Snapping Turtle and Wîsahkêha;" a story in English by Ida Poweshiek titled "Why men should not go hunting with their wives;" and a winter story by Alfred Kiyana whose title can be translated as "When the Spirit of Fire was made by the manitous." (Truman Michelson referred to Sâkihtanohkwêha as Mrs. Bill Leaf).
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: See Manuscript 1879 for the other half of the Wîsahkêha story.