Early Menominee Language Resources
Pilling, J. (1973). Bibliographies of the languages of the North American Indians. (Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; no. 1 etc). New York: AMS Press.
This is a bibliography of very early Menominee language materials. Some of these materials are very hard to find and we will add resources as they are found.
- Balbi, Adrien: Introduction à l’atlas ethnographique du globe 1826 Plate xli – “Tableau polyglotte des langues Amercaines” contains a vocabulary of 26 words
- Bruce, W.H.: Vocabulary of the Menomonee 1852 In Schoolcraft (H.R.), Indian tribes, vol. 2, pp. 470-481 (720-735 on pdf), Philadelphia, 1852. Contains about 400 words.
- Campbell, John: The Affiliation of the Algonquian Languages 1879
- Derenthal, Rev. Odoric: Sermons for Sundays and Holidays, in Menomonee 1886; Vocabulary of the Menomonee Language 1886; Bible history translated from Chippewa to Menomonee 1887 (These might be at Marquette University?)
- Domenech, Abbe Emmanuel Henri Dieudonne: Seven years’ residence in the great deserts of North America 1860 Vocabularies contain 84 words of Menomonee
- Doty, James D.: Vocabulary of the Menomenies 1836 Page 309 of the document has the Vocabulary list
- Gallatin, Albert: Hale’s Indians of North-west America and Vocabularies of North America 1848. Menemone 60 words pp 112-113
- Haines, Elijah Middlebrook: The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba): The whole subject complete in one volume 1888
- James, Dr. Edwin: A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner during thirty years among the Indians in the interior of North America 1830 (Knowledge of Astronomy starts on p 321 of this document – list of moons and stars)
- Morgan, Lewis Henry: Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Vol. 17 1871
- Bever, T.G. (1963). Theoretical implications of Bloomfield’s Menomini Morphemes. MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. Quarterly Progress Report 68. p. 197-203.
- Campbell, J. (1875). The Affiliation of the Algonquin Languages. Proceedings of the Canadian Institute. Toronto.
- Chamberlin, A.F. (1901). Significations of certain Algonquin animal names. American Anthropologist , Oct. – Dec., 1901, New Series, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Oct. –Dec., 1901), pp. 669-683.
- Englehardt, Z. (1881). Anamihanon.
- Englehardt, Z. (1882). Omanomineu Kachkenohamatwan Kesekoch.
- Englehardt, Z. (1883). Katolik Anamihan Kateshim.
- Haas, M.R. (1968). The Menomini Terms for Playing Cards. International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Jul., 1968), p. 217.
- Morgan, L.H. (1868). Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge.
- Michelson, T. (1912). Notes on Algonquian languages collected by Truman Michelson at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1911-1912. NAA MS 2703. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Patnode, D. (1988). Making the most of what you’re dealt: Lexical expansion in the Menominee development of playing-card terminology. UW-Milwaukee.
- Skinner, A. (1915). The Menomini Word “Häwätûk”. The Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 28, No. 109 (Jul. – Sep., 1915), pp. 258-261.
- Trumbull, J.H. (1872). On some words derived from languages of N. American Indians. Transactions of the American Philological Association.