Abenaki and Iroquois Language Audio Recordings and Talks, 1956 - 2006 May Be Restricted at the Series level

Contains reel-to-reel audio tapes of Abenaki language, including vocabulary, intonation, stories, legends, songs, prayers, place names, oral histories, and more recorded by Gordon Day around 1956. The series also includes audio of Stephen Laurent's 1957 reading of Chief Joseph Laurent's "The New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues," published in 1884. Individuals recorded in these tapes speak in English, French, and variations of the Abenaki Dialect.... Some audio tapes are related to the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois).