MS 2008 Fox texts and English translations
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2008
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Pearl Leaf
label: Informant
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Fox
label: Topic
content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Pearl Leaf
label: Informant
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 95 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Ethnology; miscellaneous legends."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2008
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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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).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains six texts by Sam Peters in Meskwaki syllabary with translations by Horace Poweshiek. The texts have titles that can be translated as "Meskwakis of long ago," about an instance of Meskwakis defending Osages from Comanches; "Meskwakis," about an instance of a Meskwaki man saved from a blizzard by a Sioux couple; "Winter story," about a men blessed by a wolf; "When peyote is talked about;" and "Winter story," about the adventures of Pitîshâh (Petit-Jean). Note that the fifth story never names its hero. The attested Meskwaki variants of the name are Pichîshâha (Alfred Kiyana, and one of the Meskwaki elders Ives Goddard consulted, who also used the other two variants of the name); Pitîshâha (Sâkihtanohkwêha, and three of Ives Goddard's consultants); and Petîshâha (one of Ives Goddard's consultants).