Ives Goddard

Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics

"This is an edition and translation of an autobiographical account written in the Meskwaki language by a Meskwaki woman in the second decade of the twentieth century. The writer's name was "withheld by agreement", and her identity is not known. She lived on the Meskwaki Settlement in Tama County, Iowa, and was apparently in her late middle age when she wrote the account in 1918. She uses no names of people or places, and the most concrete clue to who she was is her mention of the drum society she joined with her second husband. This has been taken to refer to events of October, 1896, when a drum with the associated Drum Dance worship was brought to the Meswakis by Wisconsin Potawatomis. The Meskwaki historian Charley H. Chuck gave the names of the first Meskwakis to join this drum, but a review of this information with the late Adeline Wanatee established that none of the women he named had life histories that match that of the writer."-- Introduction.

A New Edition and Translation

The Autobiography of a Meskwaki Woman

Alfred Kiyana

"This is an edition and translation of an account of the Owl Sacred Pack which was written in the Meskwaki language by the owner of the pack, Alfred Kiyana, to accompany its transfer to Truman Michelson in 1914. Meskwaki is an Algonquian language now spoken in Tama County, Iowa... Kiyana was a superb story-teller, whose skill in employing the Meskwaki language can only be fully appreciated by repeated study of his texts. He attended school for only three months, and that was by running away to Kansas, and his English was rudimentary. He died in the Spanish Influenza pandemic in November of 1918."-- Introduction.

A New Edition and Translation of the Meskwaki Manuscript of Alfred Kiyana

The Owl Sacred Pack

Kathleen Joan Bragdon

Native Writings in Massachusett

Leonard Bloomfield

Leonard Bloomfield's Fox Lexicon

William C. Sturtevant

William L. Merrill

Essays in Honor of William Curtis Sturtevant

Anthropology, History, and American Indians

Ives Goddard

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