See the Kamloops Wawa
Wawa, Kamloops (BC, 1891-1905)
July 31, 2011
1891, Alphabetical Order, British Columbia, Canada, Faith-Specific Papers, Images, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, W Leave a comment
Schoolcraft’s First Literary Magazine (MI, 1827)
July 24, 2011
1827, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Frontier Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, Minnesota, S, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Neya Powagans (AB, 1991-present?)
July 16, 2011
1991, Alberta, Alphabetical Order, Canada, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, N Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Frequency: Bimonthly
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 1, February, 1992
Size and Format: Unknown
Editor/Publisher: Geoff Burtonshaw (2324-3rd Ave. NW, Calgary)
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
This paper describes itself as a “Metis Newsletter.” According the Glenbow Museum, the editor, R. Geoffrey Burtonshaw, 1916- , was born on a farm near Valpoy, Manitoba. He moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1952 and worked as a carpenter until he retired in 1981. He subsequently became interested in Metis genealogy and collected a vast amount of information on the subject.
In the spring of 1991, he started Neya Powagans: The Metis Newsletter, a bi-monthly publication. He also assembles a Metis Researcher contact list and hosts Metis Research Nights at his house. At present he answers up to 700 written enquiries a year on Metis genealogy. He also volunteers on a regular basis at the Glenbow Museum, assisting Metis genealogy researchers.
Unclear from online sources and given the age of the editor if the paper is still published.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: None
Link: Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
Locations: Neya Powagans: The Metis Newsletter, 2324 – 3rd Ave. N.W. Calgary, AB, Canada; Manitoba Genealogical Society Library, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Glenbow Museum and Archives, Calgary, Alberta
The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager (MI, 1827)
July 15, 2011
1827, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, M, Michigan, School Newspapers, United States, Youth Papers Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Frequency: Weekly
Volume and Issue Data: The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun, or Literary Voyager (No. 4, Jan. 12, 1827-No. 11, ? 1827); The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun and Literary Voyager (No. 12, March 2, 1827); The Literary Voyager (No. 13, March 10, 1827-No. 14, April 11, 1827); The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager (No. 16, April 28, 1827)
Size and Format: Averaged 23 pages per issue
Editor/Publisher: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1826-1827)
Title Changes and Continuation: The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun, or Literary Voyager (1827); The Muz-ze-ni-e-gun and Literary Voyager (1827); The Literary Voyager (1827); The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager (1827); also cited as Schoolcraft’s First Literary Magazine
General Description and Notes:
According to Littlefield and Parins, The Muzzinyegun or Literary Voyager was a manuscript magazine devoted to the life, history, customs, tribal news of the Ojibwa Indians, as well as poetry, essays and information on western living and Mexican civilization. This was the second of editor Schoolcraft’s three handwritten publications, the first being a literary magazine published from 1809 to 1818, and the third being The Bow and Arrow (1833). The magazine circulated in Sault Ste. Marie, Detroit, New York and elsewhere.
Articles and other content were usually written by Schoolcraft and his wife. Objiwa lore content was supplied by Mrs. Schoolcraft’s brother George Johnston and their mother, the daughter of Waub Ojeeg, a Ojibwa leader. The reports published in The Muzzinyegun provided a basis for Schoolcraft’s later ethnological studies printed in Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Conditions, and Prospects of the indian Tribes of the United States (6 vols.; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851-1857).
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Vernon Kinietz, “Schoolcraft’s Manuscript Magazines,” Bibliographical Society of America Papers, 35 (April-June, 1941), 151-154; Philip P. Mason, “Introduction” and Notes, The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962); Philip P. Mason, ed., The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962); David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 265-266
Locations: DLC; Danky and Hady; Reprint: Philip P. Mason, ed., The Literary Voyager or Muzzeniegun (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1962)
Moqui Mission Messenger (AZ, 1894-1895)
July 14, 2011
1894, Alphabetical Order, Arizona, Faith-Specific Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, M, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Keams Canyon, Arizona
Frequency: Monthly
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan. 1894-Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1895
Size and Format: One-column, two-page typed and mimeographed newsletter; after July, 1894: four pages, two columns
Editor/Publisher: Editor, Curtis P. Coe (1894-1895); anonymous editor (April 1894); Publisher, Moqui (Hopi) Reservation Faith Mission (before July, 1894), Otho F. Curtis, Chicago (after July, 1894)
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
According to Littlefield and Parins, the Moqui Mission Messenger was devoted to supporting editor Coe’s mission activities among the Hopi, Navajo and Arapahoe Indians at the Moqui Reservation (est. 1883). The audience was friends and supporters of Coe’s mission work. In the first issue, Coe asked readers to send grass roots, seeds and other plant stock to assist agricultural development. The paper also contained accounts of the editor’s experiences with the Indians of the reservation and descriptions of native customs, habits and religion. News of others involved with the mission, inspirational items, statistics on Arizona weather, census data on Indians and reservation financial information completed the general content of the issues. The March and April, 1895 issues contained information about Alaska where Coe was to assume in May the position of superintendent of the Wood Island, Alaska, orphanage operated by the Women’s American Baptist Home Mission Society of Boston. The editor announced that the Messenger would be discontinued after April, but that subscribers would receive the mission society’s publication, The Echo thereafter.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (Washington, D.C.: Government Publishing Office, 1910), 2:233; David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 247-248
Locations: DSI-BAE; ULS
The Little Chief (OK, 1899)
July 13, 2011
1899, Alphabetical Order, Faith-Specific Papers, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, L, Oklahoma, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Darlington, Oklahoma
Frequency: Unknown
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan., 1899-Vol. 1, No. 3, Feb., 1899
Size and Format: Four page, two columns, handwritten and mimeographed
Editor/Publisher: Rev. W.M. Wellman, pastor, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians Congregational Mission (1899)
Title Changes and Continuations: None
General Description and Notes:
According to Littlefield and Parins, The Little Chief served as the mission’s promotional paper. It was “devoted to the interests of the Christian work now being done among the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in general and to the Congregational Mission in particular.” The paper contained appeals to donors outside the mission community and reported the “progress” of the Indians toward Christianity. The paper also published tribal statistics, church news, inspirational statements and other news of activities related to the mission community.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian andAlaskaNative Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 247-248
Locations: OkMuB-J
Kamloops Wawa (BC, 1891-1905)
July 13, 2011
1891, Alphabetical Order, British Columbia, Canada, Faith-Specific Papers, Images, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, K Leave a comment
Kamloops Wawa (BC, 1891-1905)
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Frequency: Irregular
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 1, May 2, 1891-Vol.14, No. 1, 1905; Nos. 1-213
Size and Format: Text largely in shorthand of Chinook jargon; three columns; small format; copies mimeographed
Editor/Publisher: Father LeJeune
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description and Notes:
Kamloops Wawa (BC, 1891-1905 )
This newspaper was published in Kamloops, British Columbia between 1891 and 1905 in a Chinook script developed by Father LeJeune. The paper was handwritten then mimeographed.
The first page’s three columns are each written in a different script. The first transliterates the Chinookan script of column two and column three translates both into English. Column three reads:
“This paper is named Kamloops Wawa. It is born just now. It wants to appear and speak every week, to all who want to learn to write fast. No matter if they be white men.”
[Note: The box containing the Kamloops Wawa includes separately paged inserts in various languages with duplicate numbering. Also includes: The Kamloops phonographer, no. 4 (Oct. 1892); circular (2 pp.): Coldwater, Aug. 24, 1892; printed letter dated April 1, 1892 in French. Five unidentified fragments; 2 pp. leaflet, at head of paper, the Kamloops Wawa symbols, on back, “the Duployan phonetic alphabet complete”; 2 copies (4 pp.) of the Chinook shorthand; pp. 49-80 ith chapter headings, “Stations of the Cross”, “Preparation for confession”, “Act of miracle,” “Monseigneur Laurence”, “Fruitless temptation,” etc.]
Kamloops Wawa (BC, 1891-1905)
Information Sources:
Bibliography: James C. Pillings, Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages, Bulletin 15 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1893), pp. 46-47; Pillings, Bibliography of the Salishan Language, Bulletin 16 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, 1893), p. 38.
Locations: McFarlin Library, Special Collections, University of Tulsa
Halaquah Times (OK, 1871-1875)
June 23, 2011
1871, Alphabetical Order, H, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, Oklahoma, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Wyandotte Mission School, Last Creek, Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
Volume and Issue Data: Vol. 2, No. 3-Vol. 6, No. 6, ca. 1871-1875
Size and Format: (check extant copies–at Kansas collection)
Editor/Publisher: Ida Johnson and Julia Robitaille, editors; Halaquah, Literary Society of Wyandotte Mission School (1871-1875)
Title Changes and Continuations: None
General Description and Notes:
According to Littlefield and Parins, the Halaquah Times was a manuscript magazine published by the students of the Wyandote Mission’s literary society. It contained letters and essays on student and school activities. Many of the essays focused on “social improvement.” The magazine was edited by Ida Johnson and her associate July Robitaille.
According to Murphy and Murphy, the student editors made one copy and then had other students at the mission school make additional copies.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936); Grace Ernestine Ray, Early Oklahoma Newspapers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1928); James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy, Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978 (Norman: University, 1981); David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 143-144.
Locations: “Miscellaneous–Halaquah,” Manuscripts, Kansas State Historical Society, contains two undated issues, written in copybooks
The Eskimo Bulletin (AK, 1893-1902?)
June 20, 2011
Alaska, Alphabetical Order, E, Images, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Eskimo Bulletin (AK, 1893, 1902)
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Cape Prince of Wales, A.M.A. Mission School, Alaska (1893, 1902)
Frequency: Annual? “Only Yearly in the World”
Volume and Issue Data: March 24, 1893-Vol. 5, May, 1902?
Size and Format: 7 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches; some handwritten and mimeographed, some printed
Editor/Publisher: W.T. Lopp (1894-1902); Oo-ten-na, Eskimo engraver; Kiok, I-ya-tunk-uk and Ad-loo-at, compositors; American Missionary Association Mission School
Title Changes and Continuation: None
General Description & Notes:
See image
Information Sources:
Bibliography: James Wickersham, A Bibliography of Alaska Literature, 1724-1924 (Cordova, Ak.: Cordova Daily Times Print, 1927), 258
Links: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96060045/
Locations: AkAU, AkU, CaACUAI, IdU, UkCU-Pa
The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (OK, 1870-1875)
June 20, 2011
1870, Alphabetical Order, C, Indian-Aboriginal Peoples Language Papers, Oklahoma, School Newspapers, United States Leave a comment
Publication History:
Place of Publication: Tullahassee Manual Labor School, Creek Nation, Wagoner County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) (1870-1875)
Frequency: Monthly
Volume and Issue Data: The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (Vol. 1, No. 1, Dec. 1870-Vol. 1, No. 5, April 27, 1871); Our Monthly (Vol. 2, No. 1, Jan. 1873-Vol. 4, No. 10, Oct. 1875); may have run as late as 1876
Size and Format: Two columns, published in both Creek and English languages
Editor/Publisher: William S. Robertson and Ann Augusta Robertson (1870-1875)
Title Changes and Continuation: The Creek Boys’ and Girls’ Monthly (1870-1871); Our Monthly (1873-1875?)
General Description and Notes:
The first volume (1870-1872) of the small, two-column monthly appeared only in manuscript. Later issues were printed on a hand press donated by Creek National Council.
The Rev. William S. Roberston, a Presbyterian missionary associated with the Tullahassee school since 1850, assisted by his daughter Ann Augusta, edited contributions mostly from Creek student exercises. The purpose of the paper was “the moral and intellectual improvement” of the students, and to “give the Creeks parts of the Bible and religious songs in their own language.” In addition to student work, the Robertsons solicited writings from any Creeks who were interested in the school or its publications. The monthly’s manuscript editions were received so well by the community that the Creek National Council provided funds to purchase a printing press and appropriated $100 annually to cover printing 1,000 copies per issue a year. Copies were distributed free in the Creek Nation. Our Monthly first appeared in print in Jan. 1873.
The paper was published in both Creek and English, with many issues almost entirely in Creek. Ann Eliza Robertson translated some articles, scripture passages and hymns into Creek while others were written by Creeks.
In addition to general news about the Creek nation and education matters, the paper also published political commentary. For example, an 1875 Creek letter called for the repeal of the Treaty of 1866, which gave railroads a claim to Indian land. Local advertising and local news also appeared.
Information Sources:
Bibliography: Althea Bass, The Story of Tullahassee (Oklahoma City: Semco Color Press, 1960); Carolyn Thomas Foreman, Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936); James Constantine Pilling, Bibliography of the Muskhogean Languages (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1889); James E. Murphy and Sharon M. Murphy, Let My People Know: American Indian Journalism, 1828-1978 (Norman: University, 1981), 59; David F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins, American Indian and Alaska Native Newspapers and Periodicals, 1826-1924 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 293-296.
Locations: Danky and Hady; OkMu; OkTu; ULS
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