Vocabulary of the Winnebago Indians
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- 1885
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The creator of this vocabulary, Thomas George (1842-1929), grew up with Ho-Chunk children around his father's trading post at New Lisbon, Juneau Co. In 1880 John W. Powell, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, distributed 150 pages of forms with his Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages, asking readers to gather American Indian language vocabularies. George used a copy of Powell's forms and, assisted by Ho-Chunk friends Big Bear, of Friendship, Wis., and Big Thunder, collected the roughly 70 pages of terms listed here. They are followed by ca. 25 pages of other manuscript notes on Ho-Chunk terms, and manuscript notes made by Lyman C. Draper about George and his sources that were found in the volume. We have also included Powell's preface outlining the project to gather Native American word lists. This is one of several works on American Indian languages to be found at Turning Points in Wisconsin History. Readers should note that this is a historical do
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George, Thomas J
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Main Stacks
- Subjects
- Native Americans
Ho-Chunk - Type
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- Ho-Chunk; English
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- George, Thomas J. Vocabulary of the Winnebago Indians. 1885. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/28391. (Accessed April 17, 2024.)
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- George, Thomas J, (1885) Vocabulary of the Winnebago Indians. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/28391
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- George, Thomas J. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/28391>.