MS 2632 Material relating to the George Bushotter Lakota texts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2632
name: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Estes, Joseph
label: Addressee
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Names
content: Bushotter, George, 1864-1892
topic: label: Topic
content: Teton Indians
label: Topic
content: Folklore
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Estes, Joseph
label: Addressee
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
culture: label: Culture
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1956
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2632
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains Swanton's revisions of texts found in MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, and related materials.  Contents: 

1. George Bushotter's first story, the myth of Miwakan yuhala. [1899]. Autograph Document Signed. 10 pages. Copy of Lakota text, with interlinear translation in Swanton's hand; revised with "information provided by Joseph Estes [a Yankton]." 

2. English translations of George Bushotter's Lakota texts 1 and 3-17. [1889-1900]. 64 pages. 

3. "Dakota notes made in 1899." Approximately 55 pages in small notebook. Linguistic and ethnologic notes, mainly concerning the George Bushotter texts. 

4. Note on the history of the Bushotter texts. 1903-1905. Typescript and autograph document. 1 page. 

5. Letter to M. W. Stirling, concerning the Bushotter texts. Newton, Massachusetts. March 16, 1956. Typescript letter signed. 2 pages. 3 related letters by Stirling. March-April 1956. carbon copy Typescript letter. 4 pages.