Laurence C. Thompson papers

Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1935-2014

Overview of the Collection

Creator

Thompson, Laurence C.

Title

Laurence C. Thompson papers

Dates

1935-2014 (inclusive)

Quantity

approximately 62.48 cubic feet (81 boxes plus 1 vertical file)

Collection Number

1835

Summary

Papers of Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson relating to the study of languages, particularly Salishan languages.

Repository

University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu

Access Restrictions

Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Some records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Languages

English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Linguist Laurence C. Thompson (1926-) studied Salishan languages, Austroasiatic languages, and Vietnamese. He wrote and co-authored a number of texts including A Vietnamese Grammar (1965), A Vietnamese Reader (1961), and A Fresh Look at Tillamook Phonology (1966). He also worked with his partner M. Terry Thompson on Salishan linguistic research and they co-authored The Thompson Language (1992) and Thompson River Salish Dictionary (1998). The Thompsons studied Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) for over thirty years and trained a number of graduate students during this fieldwork.

Laurence Cassius Thompson, Jr. was born in Manchester, New Hampshire on May 11, 1926. He received his BA, MA (1950), and PhD (1953) from Yale University. Thompson worked as a linguistics professor at the University of Hawaii for most of his career. Laurence and Maranell Lewise Terry married in Seattle, Washington in 1964.

Linguist M. Terry Thompson (1927-) studied Salishan languages. She co-authored The Thompson Language (1992) and Thompson River Salish Dictionary (1998) with her partner Laurence C. Thompson. M. Terry Thompson also edited Salish Myths and Legends: One People's Stories in 2008.

Maranell Lewise Terry was born in Colorado, Texas to Ross Lewis Terry and Emma Callie Nason. She married Laurence C. Thompson in Seattle, Washington in 1964.

Sources:

Ancestry.com. U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Jacobs, Travis Beal, and Benjamin R. Dixon. “Laurence Cassius Thompson, Jr.” In General Catalogue of Middlebury College: Bicentennial Edition. Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College Press, 2000, p. 363.

Taylor, Allan R. “Review of Thompson River Salish Dictionary.” International Journal of American Linguistics 64, no. 4 (1998): 398–404.

Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas Birth Certificates, 1903–1932. iArchives, Orem, Utah.

Washington State Archives; Olympia, Washington; Washington Marriage Records, 1854-2013; Reference Number: kingcoarchmc275541.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Materials include audio recordings, field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, grammar books, research files, correspondence, video recordings, and scholarly papers. The field notes and interviews were primarily recorded by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson as well as L.C. Thompson’s students. The Thompsons interviewed numerous informants including Mabel Joe, Annie York, Mamie Henry, and others. Materials primarily document Bella Coola, Coast Salish, and Interior Salish--the three main families of Salishan languages.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Organized into 11 accessions.

Accession No. 1835-001, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1954-1982
Accession No. 1835-019, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1968-1978
Accession No. 1835-020, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1987-1988
Accession No. 1835-021, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1989
Accession No. 1835-023, Laurence C. Thompson papers, approximately 1985-1995
Accession No. 1835-024, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1956-1986
Accession No. 1835-025, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1975-1983
Accession No. 1835-026, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1944-1994
Accession No. 1835-027, Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson papers, 1935, 1950-1990
Accession No. 1835-028, Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1939, 1961-2009
Accession No. 1835-029, Laurence C. and M. Terry Thompson papers, 1950-2014

Preservation Note

Some records stored offsite; advance notice required for use.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Accession No. 1835-001: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1954-1982Return to Top

9.42 linear feet

Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings, field notes, and microfilm copies of field notes relating to the study of Salishan languages dating from 1954 to 1982.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson, 1972-1982, 1972 January 01.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 1: Digitized Recordings
electronic_file	item
electronic_file	00081	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, August 1974. Track 1. 46 Minutes 22 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "There were a lot of things you were talking about this morning that I wanted to get on there." [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Soft, like butter"; "When it melts"; "When the pillow is nice and soft". On cassette enclosure: "TH 75-1. Transcribed."	1974-08
electronic_file	00081	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 16 June 1975. Track 2. 45 Minutes 58 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Worn Smooth", "Polish it"; "Polished"; "Where animals have gone through it is smooth." On cassette enclosure: "TH 75-1. Transcribed."	1975-06-16
electronic_file	00082	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 16 June 1975. Track 1. 46 Minutes 29 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Fishing through the ice"; "Hands hanging down at sides"; "Frozen on top". On Cassette box: "Transcribed MTT Thompson 75.2".	1975-06-16
electronic_file	00082	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 16 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Annie, how do you say 'you forget it'?"; "You forget this article"; "I forgot my soap." On Cassette box: "Transcribed MTT Thompson 75.2".	1975-06-16
electronic_file	00083	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 16 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "You put him to sleep"; "You pestered him"; "You make him tired". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.3"	1975-06-16
electronic_file	00083	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 16 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 23 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Did he win the game?"; "That person is always winning"; "He lost them". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.3"	1975-06-16
electronic_file	00084	Stories, told by Annie York, 17 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 18 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "They burn the offerings and then they, mourners, they take the ceder and hit every one of the children if they are orphans. I seen it, how it was done." On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.4"	1975-06-17
electronic_file	00084	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 17-18 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 23 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Limping"; "I'm limping"; "Crazy [...] they use that for a drunken person too". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.4"	1975-06-17
electronic_file	00085	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 18 June 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 26 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "On top of your head [name of a Wenatchee chief]"; "Something to see"; "You made it swell". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.5"	1975-06-18
electronic_file	00085	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 18 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 51 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "You will tire him"; "To pay one's fine"; "To pay the court"; "He has already paid his fine", "It's already thrown". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.5"	1975-06-18
electronic_file	00086	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 18 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 33 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "The inner bark of any tree"; "Jack Pine"; "Sap [edible tree sap]". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.6"	1975-06-18
electronic_file	00086	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 19 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 55 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Loosely Woven [as in cloth]"; "Loose"; "She bastes it"; "Stitching back and forth in long stitches". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.6"	1975-06-19
electronic_file	00087	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 19 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 57 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Strawberry"; "Raspberry"; "Something that is baked". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 11/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.7"	1975-06-19
electronic_file	00087	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 19 June 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 48 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Burn my skin"; "Black burnt"; "Scalded". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 11/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.7"	1975-06-19
electronic_file	00088	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 27 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 59 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I worried about them"; "Worred about me"; "A person who goes to school together"; "A person who is doing something [making] a commotion, drinking or getting into trouble together". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.8"	1975-06-27
electronic_file	00088	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 27-28 June 1975. Track 2` 48 Minutes 7 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "My boat was leaking"; "A brook that wasn't running and then it was"; "A dry well when the water comes"; "Shallow water coming in"; Deep water coming in"; "A kettle". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.8"	1975-06-27
electronic_file	00089	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 28 June 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "The chicken was already rotten"; "It's a rotten chicken"; "Praying for good weather". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.9"	1975-06-28
electronic_file	00089	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 28 June 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "That person, he didn't do it right"; "I showed you how to do it and you do it the wrong way"; "you're no good". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.9"	1975-06-28
electronic_file	00090	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 30 June 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 57 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Having a little personal argument"; "quarrelling"; "Two quarrelling". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.10"	1975-06-30
electronic_file	00090	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 30 June 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Time to take the child home"; "I made the effort and took her home"; "She didn't want to go home, but I took her home". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.10"	1975-06-30
electronic_file	00091	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 2 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Sheets, towels, pillowcases"; "He makes it bleed"; "You scratch it". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 7/75 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.11"	1975-07-02
electronic_file	00091	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 2 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 6 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Work for your bill and pay it off"; "Person who has a lot of bills"; "I am running up a bill" "A woman who is menstruating" "Those who are sick, like cancer". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 7/75 and 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.11"	1975-07-02
electronic_file	00092	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 2 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "The young girl isn't doing anything"; "To drink with a straw"; "She drinks it with a straw". On Cassette Enclosure: "Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.12"	1975-07-02
electronic_file	00092	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 2 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 7 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Music that you hold down in the bottom of your throat [...] kind of a lonely sound, like a bunch of wolves"; "Screechy, sharp notes"; "Slow, melody song". On Cassette Enclosure: "Thompson 75.12 Transcribed 12/77 MTT". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.12	1975-07-02
electronic_file	00093	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 2-3 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Sing that music over for me again"; "Gradually stop the music"; "The lower tone". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.13 Transcribed 1/78 MTT".	1975-07-02
electronic_file	00093	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 3 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 10 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Little boy 2-4 years old [pet name for]"; "Little baby 0-2 years old [pet name for]"; "Change of life". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.13 Transcribed 1/78 MTT".	1975-07-03
electronic_file	00094	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 3 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Several strands of rope came apart"; "Come apart"; "I pull rope apart"; "Pulling bread apart". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.14 Transcribed 2/28 MTT"	1975-07-03
electronic_file	00094	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 4 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 8 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Used clothes are just as good as anything else"; "To make a bow and arrow"; "To make a bow and arrow and not a gun"; "Cleaning my rifle". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.14 Transcribed 2/28 MTT". On Cassette Enclosure: "NB: Half of side B has bad static & noise. Transcribed MTT 2/78".	1975-07-04
electronic_file	00095	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 4 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 7 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Rod fishermen"; "Rod fisherman [archaic]"; "Someone who fishes all the time"; "Someone who makes their own lunches"; "Someone who swims all the time". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.15 Transcribed 2/78 MTT"	1975-07-04
electronic_file	00095	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 4 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 7 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I think you are lonely"; "It's a lonely place"; "Spuzzum is a lonely place"; "Puff up". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.15 Transcibed 2/78-MTT"	1975-07-04
electronic_file	00096	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 4 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "They don't believe me"; "You don't believe it"; "Don't you believe him"; "Lie". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.16 Transcribed 4/78 MTT"	1975-07-04
electronic_file	00096	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 5 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I Fill it"; "You fill it"; "You got it filled"; "You got it all brimming full"; "She got it brimming full". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.16 Transcribed-4/78-MTT"	1975-07-05
electronic_file	00097	Story of the Cannibal ("Cold Man") told by Annie York in English. 5 July 1975. Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 5 July 1975 Track 1. 47 Minutes 30 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Coming behind"; "Coming slower behind"; "Gamble"; "Betting" "Something they use for betting". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.17 Transcribed 1/78-MTT" On Cassette Enclosure: "Story of Cannibal ("Cold Man") in English, goes with Tape # T-05 (Thompson Version)"	1975-07-05
electronic_file	00097	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 5 July 1975. Story, "Two Hairdressers" told by Annie York in English, 5 July 1975. Track 2. 7 Minutes 45 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Mt. Baker"; "One Side [of Mt. Baker]"; "Dry Salmon Lake"; "[The name of the Canibal 'Keeps combing his head'". Story: "Two Hairdressers". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.17"	1975-07-05
electronic_file	00098	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 7 July 1975. Track 1. 46 Minutes 57 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "You yank it hard, you pull on it"; "Good at doing things"; "Can never do things right, Awkward". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.18 Transcribed 4/78 MTT"	1975-07-07
electronic_file	00098	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 7 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "This way, That far:' "In just a little ways an he'll catch up to me"; "I'll be all the way up there before you wake up". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.18 Transcribed 4/78 MTT"	1975-07-07
electronic_file	00099	Interview with Annie York, 7 July 1975. Story, told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, 7 July 1975. 47 Minutes 33 Seconds Scope and Content: General conversation and then story in Thompson. On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.19 Transcribed 4/78 MTT"	1975-07-07
electronic_file	00099	Story told by Annie York, 7 July 1975. 47 Minutes 45 Seconds Scope and Content: Story in English from a Thompson language original. "On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.19 Transcribed 4/78 MTT"	1975-07-07
electronic_file	00100	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 7-8 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Dirty Clothes"; "he has dirt in his clothes"; "Underneath"; "Underwear". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.20 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-07
electronic_file	00100	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 8 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 40 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "People born with birth defects"; "Several people have birth defects"; "all her children have birth defects". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.20 Transcribed 05/78 MTT"	1975-07-08
electronic_file	00101	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 8 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 18 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Enchanted"; "Destracted by some experience"; "Person who is possessed doing the spirit dance [in the singular, plural and Litton dialect]" On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.21 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-08
electronic_file	00101	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 8 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 40 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "They are given the spirit dancing power"; "He followed his ancestors"; "He coaxed someone to come along with him". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.21 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-08
electronic_file	00102	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 10 July 1975. Track 1. 33 Minutes 52 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "The river is coming up"; "Getting higher up"; "Water is getting higher"; "When it is really starting to flood". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.22 Transcribed 6/78 MTT. Damaged -- Must be checked and copied. Damaged portion rewound onto Side A--Check Carefully."	1975-07-10
electronic_file	00102	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 10 July 1975. Track 2. 2 Minutes 25 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Something growing in the ground gets bitter". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.22 Transcribed 6/78 MTT. Damaged -- Must be checked and copied. Damaged portion rewound onto Side A--Check Carefully."	1975-07-10
electronic_file	00103	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 10 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 15 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Put your chair back"; "I get in the boat"; "Put it in the water [Launch a canoe]". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.23 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-10
electronic_file	00103	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 10-11 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I don't like it"; "Tattletale"; "Healed"; "Scar"; "It heals". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.23 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-10
electronic_file	00104	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 11 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 29 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I asked someone to come along"; "I asked someone to come along with me"; "Something itches". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.24 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-11
electronic_file	00104	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 11 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 36 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Taking fluffy stuff to make a strand"; "Twisting two strands together"; "Braiding". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.24 Transcribed 5/78 MTT"	1975-07-11
electronic_file	00105	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 14 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 52 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: AY: "I just made up my mind like this, I said put a note on the door." MTT: "Let's go, yeah" AY: "So I said that's what Ive been waiting for for a long time" LCT: "Oh, that's great" MTT: "Isn't that nice. That was awefully nice of him wasn't it?" AY: "Yeah well, he asked us to go over there but I don’t want it, we don’t want to go over there and say 'Mr. Williams please take us with you'". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.25 Transcribed to where tape is set"	1975-07-14
electronic_file	00105	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 14 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 56 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Wicker basket"; "You'll infect them with TB"; "Kick"; "I got kicked". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.25"	1975-07-14
electronic_file	00106	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 14 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Chewing Gum"; "A little piece of chewing gum [pet word]"; "She chewed the gum"; "He takes it out and puts it somewhere and chews it again"; "It's a little difficult". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.26"	1975-07-14
electronic_file	00106	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 14 July 1975. Track 2. 48 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Meat thermometer"; "Oven thermometer": "Pan, Something to cook in"; "My camping place"; "Overnight camping place"; "The old people's camping places". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.26"	1975-07-14
electronic_file	00107	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 15 July 1975. Track 1. 48 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I have a night cap"; "To have a nightcap"; "To have a soapberry confection as a nightcap"; "Have a nightcap you people"; "I gave him a nightcap". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.27"	1975-07-15
electronic_file	00107	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 15 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 33 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "I deposit money in the bank"; "I work for it until I get it paid"; "I put a deposit on it [Layaway]". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.27"	1975-07-15
electronic_file	00108	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 22 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 31 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "To catch water in a bucket from a downspout"; "To catch something liquid"; "Catching liquid with a container up towards the source"; "The plan has all its growth up towards the top". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.28"	1975-07-22
electronic_file	00108	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 22 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 47 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Playing musical instrument"; "To sing". Additional ethnographic information related to Thompson musical instruments. On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.28"	1975-07-22
electronic_file	00109	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 22 July 1975. Track 1. 47 Minutes 25 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Bad [Penticton Language]"; "Catholic"; "Prayer beads"; "To count your beads". On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.29"	1975-07-22
electronic_file	00109	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 22 July 1975. Track 2. 47 Minutes 21 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT eliciting Classified Word List] "Playing musical instrument"; "To sing". Additional ethnographic information related to Thompson musical instruments. On Cassette box: "Thompson 75.29"	1975-07-22

Accession No. 1835-019: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1968-1978Return to Top

0.08 linear feet

Scope and Content: Materials include correspondence regarding the establishment of the Northwest Linguistic Collection in UW Special Collections and on related collections in the archive dating from 1968 to 1978.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson, 1987 July 17.

Accession No. 1835-020: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1987-1988Return to Top

1.08 linear feet (26 sound cassettes)

Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings of M. Terry Thompson's linguistic field work with Annie York in Spuzzum, BC relating to Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) dating from 1987 to 1988.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials donated by M. Terry Thompson via Bill Seaburg, 1987 September 08 and 1988 September 15.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 1: Digitized Recordings
electronic_file	item
electronic_file	00122	Interview with Annie York providing translation of an earlier recording of Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 1. 16 Minutes 46 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Miss Annie York, Spuzzum BC, August 1987" AY: "He's got two [goats]. His house is all nicely decorated." On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-7".	1987-08
electronic_file	00122	Interview with Annie York providing translation of an earlier recording of Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 2. 9 Minutes 39 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [LCT: "Thompson tape 75"] AY: "[The Chickadee] was there" MTT: "And [The Chickadee] is the chickadee?" On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-7".	1987-08
electronic_file	00123	Interview with Annie York providing translation of an earlier recording of Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 1. 31 Minutes 15 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Thompson tape 87-8. Miss Annie York, Spuzzum BC, August 1987 continuing the story of the Chickadee, huh?" AY: "He told them your grandson don't tell anyone that he got a deer". On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-7"	1987-08
electronic_file	00123	Interview with Annie York providing translation of an earlier recording of Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 2. 31 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: AY: "So he says to 'em you could be like that to yourself you could be like your grandson. You gonna be a little bird, just like your grandson too, and the old lady turned into a bird." On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-8"	1987-08
electronic_file	00124	Interview with Annie York providing translation of an earlier recording of Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 1. 30 Minutes 34 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Thompson, tape 87 number nine, Miss Annie York, Spuzzum BC, August 1987. Continuing with the adventures of [name]" AY: "And they said to the old people that [dog] salmon was very bad, he bites the nets you see and he cuts it. So he says to them, that kinda fish is very bad." On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-9"	1987-08
electronic_file	00124	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, August 1987. Track 2. 30 Minutes 45 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "You gonna be a mountain here and you're gonna look over at the people in Litton." On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-9"	1987-08
electronic_file	00125	Story told by Annie York in both English and Thompson River Salishan, September 1987. Track 1. 25 Minutes 52 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "They made a bridge right across [falling] creek. She says it's funny the way he made it." On cassette enclosure: "TH 87-10"	1987-09
electronic_file	00166	Story, "Rabbit in Moon" told by Annie York in English from a Thompson River Salishan original, June 1988. Track 1. 31 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT]:"Thompson tape 88 number one, Miss Annie York, Spuzzum, B.C. June 1988, side A. [AY]: "The lady was a young one and her grandmother said to her, 'There's a man around somewhere around here and that man has a brother'". On cassette enclosure: "Thompson 88-1, June 1988 -- Annie York -- Story 'Rabbit in Moon' -- English".	1988-06
electronic_file	00166	Story, "Rabbit in Moon" told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 26 Minutes 9 Seconds Scope and Content: On cassette enclosure: "Thompson 88-1, June 1988 -- Annie York -- Story 'Rabbit in Moon' -- Thompson".	1988-06
electronic_file	00167	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 30 Minutes 46 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Number two, Miss Annie York, Spuzzum B.C. June 1988. Okay, tell us a story, Annie." On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-2 Copy. Annie York 06/88".	1988
electronic_file	00167	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 30 Minutes 43 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Well, bully boy its name is [...] they nicknamed him that because after he was sent out into the woods". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-2 Copy. Annie York 06/88".	1988-06
electronic_file	00168	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 30 Minutes 44 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "So him and his grandmother, by that time he was getting bigger. Maybe around 15. So his grandmother says to him, 'Bout time you should always go to the river and go in the sweathouse, always because he's going to be a man". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-03".	1988-06
electronic_file	00168	Song and Story, "The Frog's Song" by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 30 Minutes 47 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "So him and his grandmother, by that time he was getting bigger. Maybe around 15. So his grandmother says to him, 'Bout time you should always go to the river and go in the sweathouse, always because he's going to be a man". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-03".	1988-06
electronic_file	00169	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 31 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: "When eclipse comes that's when they visit each other". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-4 (CT)".	1988-06
electronic_file	00169	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "That's what she thinks. Oh yes. Man says, okay. After the volcano. After that the man came back to 'em and said, 'are you satisfied?', and she said, 'Oh yes, I'm satisfied to see that nice dog'". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-4 (CT)".	1988-06
electronic_file	00170	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 31 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "She says to her, how do you like that moon last night. She says, it's beautiful, I like it". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-5".	1988-06
electronic_file	00170	Story told by Annie York in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 31 Minutes 10 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "The people jumped into their boats and into everything there. They took off what they have. One woman, she took that Indian blanket". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-5".	1988-06
electronic_file	00171	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 31 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "His headband"; "He put his headband on"; "A headband that is not tied." On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-6 (CT)".	1988-06
electronic_file	00171	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 27 Minutes 45 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "He looked where he pointed his canoe pole"; "Toward the west"; "Where the sun comes out"; "West, or where the sun sets". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-6 (CT)".	1988-06
electronic_file	00172	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 30 Minutes 43 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrase: "He came around there after Coyote got something. He could sense it, so he hung around. You came there but they told him it was just a bone that was found. He didn't believe it.". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-11".	1988-06
electronic_file	00172	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 30 Minutes 39 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrase: "Then he shot some more". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-11".	1988-06
electronic_file	00173	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 30 Minutes 26 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrase: "I guess you're telling lies to us". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-14".	1988-06
electronic_file	00173	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 30 Minutes 26 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrases: "When spring is on the earth (just as soon as the snow goes)"; "You are going to tell everything you see". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-14".	1988-06
electronic_file	00174	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 1. 30 Minutes 46 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrase: "You don't want to buy a wife. He just wants to show off racing". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-15".	1988-06
electronic_file	00174	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, June 1988. Track 2. 28 Minutes 9 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrases: "...You'll be a bird"; "And he threw them into the trees". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-15".	1988-06
electronic_file	00175	Field recording, Annie York, Mabel Joe and M. Terry Thompson, 1988. Track 1. 31 Minutes 15 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-16".	1988
electronic_file	00175	Field recording, Annie York, Mabel Joe and M. Terry Thompson, 1988. Track 2. 31 Minutes 0 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-16".	1988
electronic_file	00176	Translation by Annie York of a story, previously recorded in Thompson River Salishan, 1988. Track 1. 28 Minutes 24 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT]: "Today is the 7th, isn't it?" First translated phrases: "They are not going to be here in this country"; "Looking at something, viewing something"; "He's stuck in the flowers". On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-17".	1988
electronic_file	00176	Story told by Annie York simultaneously in English and Thompson River Salishan, 1988. Track 2. 28 Minutes 8 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrases: "You get to be a big girl"; "You are gonna learn the native prayer" On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-17".	1988
electronic_file	00177	Story told by Annie York in English, 1988. Track 1. 30 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Next day, I'll stay with my friend. The little girl said, 'I want her to stay with us. I've been telling her she mustn't be afraid of owls or coyotes when they are howling, or anything like that. Grandpa knows how to scare them." On cassette enclosure: "TH 88-18".	1988

Accession No. 1835-021: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1989Return to Top

0.42 linear feet

Scope and Content: Materials primarily include audio recordings of linguistic field work with Annie York in Spuzzum, BC relating to Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) dating to 1989.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials donated by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson, 1989 September 15.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 1: Digitized Recordings
electronic_file	item
electronic_file	00126	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 21 June 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [Paul Kroeber eliciting classified word list]: "Something that has a notch in it"; "Something that is off, like a corner comes off". On cassette box: "TH 89-1 Recorded by M.T. Thompson. Paul Kroeber eliciting."	1989-06-21
electronic_file	00126	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 21 June 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Thompson tape 89-1. Miss Annie York. Spuzzum, BC. Recorded by Terry Thompson and Paul Kroeber. June 21st 1989." PK eliciting classified word list: "Want to talk?"; "1"; "2"; "3". On cassette box: "TH 89-1 Recorded by M.T. Thompson. Paul Kroeber eliciting."	1989-06-21
electronic_file	00127	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 24 June 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [Paul Kroeber eliciting classified word list]: "Several people arrived"; "They got here"; "Sleep" "I overslept"; On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-2"	1989-06-24
electronic_file	00127	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 24 June 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: PK: "June 24th. Spuzzum again with Annie York, Paul Kroeber eliciting". [Paul Kroeber eliciting classified word list]: "7"; "9"; "Get big"; On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-2"	1989-06-24
electronic_file	00128	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 24 June 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 13 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: PK: "We've done enough words here, I'm going to try some sentences. They are probably going to be sort of stupid sentences". [Paul Kroeber eliciting classified word list]: "Older brother"; "Younger brother"; "Older sister"; "Younger sister". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-3"	1989-06-24
electronic_file	00128	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 24 June 1989. Track 2. 12 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "To cut up / clean a fish"; "I cut it with a knife"; "Here is the knife I cut it with." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-3"	1989-06-24
electronic_file	00129	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 29 June 1989. Track 1. 32 Minutes 1 Second Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Lightening"; "Thunder"; "Grey [the color grey]". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-4" On cassette box: "Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.T. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-06-29
electronic_file	00129	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 29 June 1989. Track 2. 32 Minutes 10 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "I know he went"; "He thinks you are gone"; "I want him to go". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-4" On cassette box: "Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.T. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-06-29
electronic_file	00130	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 19 August 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 37 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "I give them something / put it in someone else's hand"; "Handshake"; "He gave me something in my hand". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-5 (out of sequence--follows 89-11)"	1989-08-19
electronic_file	00130	Story told by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, August 19th 1989. Track 2. 30 Minutes 52 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting story]: "He draw the earth how many layers on the earth, and he told the people the earth got several layers and he says to them: Now it is that we can't grow nothing". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-5 (out of sequence--follows 89-11)"	1989-08-19
electronic_file	00131	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 7 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "I told him to work"; "Are you working?"; "He thinks I am working". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-6 Paul K eliciting."	1989-07-07
electronic_file	00131	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 7 July 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 3 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Dull knife"; "Sharpen the knife"; "Short knife". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-6 Paul K eliciting."	1989-07-07
electronic_file	00132	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 20 Minutes 28 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Don't use the dull knife"; "A sharp knife"; "He opened the box to put the knife in". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-6 Paul K eliciting."	1989
electronic_file	00133	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 12 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 13 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Rainbow"; "Winding things up"; "wool[?]"; "Plant that nets are made of"; "What did he wind up?" On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-8" On cassette box: "TH 89-8 Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.C. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-07-12
electronic_file	00133	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 12 July 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 21 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "She used the dress I sew"; "The dish that fell on the floor is broken"; "Broken"; "Small pieces". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-8" On cassette box: "TH 89-8 Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.C. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-07-12
electronic_file	00134	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 12 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 28 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Put it on the shelf"; "He hooks something in the middle"; "Two animals". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-9" On cassette box: "TH 89-9 Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.C. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-07-12
electronic_file	00134	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 12 July 1989. Track 2. 15 Minutes 32 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "When are you coming?"; "I am coming tomorrow"; "He is going to come tomorrow"; "When did you leave?". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-9" On cassette box: "TH 89-9 Recorded by Paul Kroeber, L.C. and M.T. Thompson also present."	1989-07-12
electronic_file	00135	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 13 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 17 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "An animal that is tame"; "A wild horse"; "Put something someplace". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-9 13 July 1989 Tape 1" On cassette box: "TH 89-10 L.C. and M.T. Thompson present. rec/edit: Paul Kroeber".	1989-07-13
electronic_file	00135	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 13 July 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 17 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Grizzly bear"; "Sagging"; "Rope". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-9 13 July 1989 Tape 1" On cassette box: "TH 89-10 L.C. and M.T. Thompson present. rec/edit: Paul Kroeber".	1989-07-13
electronic_file	00136	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 13 July 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 59 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Just a few"; "quarter of an inch in the bottom"; "Half"; "2 inches from the top of the basket"; "Full". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-9 13 July 1989 Tape 2". On cassette box: "rec/edit: Paul Kroeber. MT. Thompson also present. Side b blank".	1989-07-13
electronic_file	00137	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 20 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation with M. Terry Thompson. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Escalator / Moving ladder"; "Stirrups". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-12"	1989
electronic_file	00137	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 22 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Gallop / Bucking horse"; "Upper Niccola people"; "Area across from the river"; "They are going down". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-12"	1989
electronic_file	00138	Story told by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 43 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "He's sitting on the other side when he's making that soup." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-13".	1989
electronic_file	00138	Story told by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 47 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "It's something to see, that's a funny person!" On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-13".	1989
electronic_file	00139	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 56 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation with M. Terry Thompson. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "A fish"; "A earthen steaming pit"; "He steamed it". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-15"	1989
electronic_file	00139	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 34 Minutes 33 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation with M. Terry Thompson. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "The Sandman". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-15"	1989
electronic_file	00140	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation with M. Terry Thompson. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Are you people all going to agree?" On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-14".	1989
electronic_file	00140	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 0 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Something that makes me sneeze"; "That stuff is something that makes you sneeze"; "A sneezemaker". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-14".	1989
electronic_file	00141	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 26 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Field mouse gathers a lot of stuff"; "Field mouse"; "Mouse's food that has been gathered." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-16".	1989
electronic_file	00141	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 26 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To scratch someone's varicose vein to make it bleed and then put pitch on it." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-16".	1989
electronic_file	00142	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 37 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "They do it by themselves"; "I depend on him"; "He depends on me." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-17".	1989
electronic_file	00142	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 37 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "He accidentally made it leak"; "Sprinkler". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-17".	1989
electronic_file	00143	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 0 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "It runs all over, like black brambleberries"; "A lot of it spurts out". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-18".	1989
electronic_file	00143	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 21 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To stretch his neck"; "To stretch and look over". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-18".	1989
electronic_file	00144	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 59 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Just got clean". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-19".	1989
electronic_file	00144	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 27 August 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Your unmarried son"; "Young boy after his voice has changed". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-19".	1989-08-27
electronic_file	00145	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 9 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Striped"; "Dirty". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-20-21". On cassette box: "Note: #21 was omitted from the sequence and is incorporated herein"	1989
electronic_file	00145	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 20 Minutes 15 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Shawl"; "Stagnant water"; "Mattress that soured from bedwetting". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-20-21". On cassette box: "Note: #21 was omitted from the sequence and is incorporated herein"	1989
electronic_file	00146	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 11 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Don't hurt your friend's feelings"; "A board shrinks and gets loose"; "Something that moves apart". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-22".	1989
electronic_file	00146	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 28 August 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 0 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "August 28th." [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "You were the only one that helped me."; "I like where you work"; "I like the house where you work." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-22".	1989-08-28
electronic_file	00147	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 57 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To stumble."; "To trip someone"; "To clear/clean/brush off"; "To clean". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-23".	1989
electronic_file	00147	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 30 Minutes 28 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "The front part of something"; "I went ahead of somebody"; "The front/belly of a deer." On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-23".	1989
electronic_file	00148	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 29 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Walking slow"; "To drive"; "To slow with your hands". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-24".	1989
electronic_file	00148	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 30 Minutes 31 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "A place where someone has been digging"; "The digger"; "Where people dig all the time". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-24".	1989
electronic_file	00149	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 24 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "It got dumped out on me"; "I didn't intend to throw it out"; "Old clothes". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-25".	1989
electronic_file	00149	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 18 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "A pillow"; "A bustle, (a cushion that you sit on)"; "T.B. (Tuberculosis or Consumption)". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-25".	1989
electronic_file	00150	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 46 Minutes 41 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Telephone"; "Telegram"; "Crossways". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-26".	1989
electronic_file	00150	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 46 Minutes 44 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To hold material with your teeth"; "Close together"; "To camp on the way (while going somewhere)". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-26".	1989
electronic_file	00151	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 46 Minutes 48 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "I pray"; "2 or 3 people fried something"; "To peer at something when you are working on it and your eyes are bad"; "I managed to cut it with dull scissors". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-27".	1989
electronic_file	00151	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 46 Minutes 57 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Somebody is very sick"; "I am very sick"; "He is very sick". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-27".	1989
electronic_file	00152	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 47 Minutes 14 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Little kids"; "Work hard"; "Works too hard all the time"; ; "Thanks for your hard work". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-28".	1989
electronic_file	00152	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 47 Minutes 21 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "The Mountain"; "To put something in the fire"; "Up in a high mountain ridge"; "Heather (The plant that grows in the high places)". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-28".	1989
electronic_file	00153	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 29 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [General discussion followed by MTT eliciting a classified word list which begins at 3 Min 40 Sec.]: "To water or irrigate something"; "To spray something on a tree"; "To scald his hand in hot water"; "He accidently poured water on me". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-29".	1989
electronic_file	00153	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 25 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Have a permanently twisted neck"; "Have a crooked finger"; "Have a crooked back". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-29".	1989
electronic_file	00154	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, September 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "You made a hole in your boat"; "To get a hole on the side"; "Something that hits something and has a hole in it, like a watermelon". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-30".	1989-09
electronic_file	00154	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, September 1989. Track 2. 10 Minutes 34 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To poultice your side"; "I poultice my side"; "To poultice your hand". On cassette enclosure: "TH 89-30".	1989-09
electronic_file	00155	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, June 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 41 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "To sit down"; "Sit down my dear"; "Walk"; "I guess you've been walking". On cassette enclosure: "TH #89".	1989-06
electronic_file	00155	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, June 1989. Track 2. 11 Minutes 54 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "I am going to sleep"; "I feel sleepy"; "He is still asleep". On cassette enclosure: "TH #89".	1989-06
electronic_file	00156	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 29 June 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 49 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK Monologue]: "Thompson Tape 90. June and probably also July 1989. Annie York at Spuzzum. Paul Kroeber eliciting" [PK eliciting classified word list]: "Thunder"; "Lightening"; "Grey hair"; "Grey color (like a horse)". On cassette enclosure: "TH 90".	1989
electronic_file	00156	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 29 June 1989. Track 2. 1 Minutes 50 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [PK eliciting classified word list]: "I saw him put it there"; "I know where he put it"; "I know what he cut it with". On cassette enclosure: "TH 90".	1989
electronic_file	00157	Interview with Annie York, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 19 July 1989. Track 1. 29 Minutes 17 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Thompson Tape 91. Miss Annie York, Spuzzum BC, July 1989, Terry Thompson recording. [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "He gave me something in my hand"; "To put or place something"; "Something cooled off"; "To put something cool in your eye". On cassette enclosure: "TH #91 - Beg. July 19, 1989-AY-SPZ MJ & MC, Merritt".	1989-07-19
electronic_file	00157	Interview with Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 1989. Track 2. 28 Minutes 38 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Crooked tree"; "A baby Carrier"; "Something used for black magic or sorcery"; "Back itches"; "My hand itches". On cassette enclosure: "TH #91".	1989
electronic_file	00158	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, Summer 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 55 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "Thompson tape 92. Miss Annie York, Spuzzum BC. Recorded by Terry Thompson, 1989." [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Someone who is uppity"; "Waiting for fish to bite after you've dropped your line in"; "To bait your line for fishing and throw it into the water through a hole in the ice". On cassette enclosure: "TH 92".	1989
electronic_file	00158	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, Summer 1989. Track 2. 30 Minutes 49 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "A sound, especially like a siren goes off into the distance and disappears"; "A bird or a plane or the sun goes over the top of the mountain and disappears"; "All my stuff is churned around". On cassette enclosure: "TH 92".	1989
electronic_file	00159	Story, Tom George telling, "The Story of the Old Man and His Grandson" in Thompson River Salishan, 27 June 1989. Track 1. 13 Minutes 4 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT]: "The Thompson Language, Mr. Tom George at coldwater, B.C., June 27th 1989". On cassette enclosure: "TH #93".	1989-06-27
electronic_file	00160	Field recording, Hilda Austin on "How to Fish" in Thompson River Salish, 11 July 1989. Field recording, Millie Michel on "Gathering Food Plants" in Thompson River Salish, 11 July 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 51 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: General conversation [Hilda Austin at 2:10]: "I'm going to tell you a story about the fish. How it goes around. The fish.". On cassette enclosure: "TH #94".	1989-07-11
electronic_file	00160	Story, Millie Michel tells "Mountain Goat Woman" in Thompson River Salish, 11 July 1989. Track 2. 22 Minutes 36 Seconds Scope and Content: On cassette enclosure: "TH #94".	1989-07-11
electronic_file	00161	Story #2 told by Tom George in Thompson River Salishan, 25 July 1989. Track 1. 11 Minutes 46 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT]: "This is Mr. Tom George, Coldwater B.C. July 25th, 1989. He's going to tell us a story." On cassette enclosure: "TH 95". On cassette box: "Story #2. Recorded by M.T. Thompson. Mabel Joe, Mary Coutlee, and L.C. Thompson also present".	1989-07-25
electronic_file	00162	Translation of "The Old Man and His Grandson" by M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from an original recitation by Tom George, 22 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 13 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT]: "Thompson language, July 22, 1989, Merritt, B.C. Mabel Joe and Terry Thompson working on a story told by Tom George, with the Help of Mary Coutlee. [first translated phrase]: "I am going slow, said the grandson". On cassette enclosure: "TH #96". On cassette box: "Working on Tom George story of old man (TH #93). Recorded by M.T. Thompson (cont'd on TH #97).	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00162	Translation (continued) of "The Old Man and His Grandson" by M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from an original recitation by Tom George, 22 July 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 18 Seconds Scope and Content: First Translated Phrase: "Stop there by the water and sit down. You sit there and then you kneel down, and I will kneel down." On cassette enclosure: "TH #96". On cassette box: "Working on Tom George story of old man (TH #93). Recorded by M.T. Thompson (cont'd on TH #97).	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00163	Translation (continued) of "The Old Man and His Grandson" by M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from an original recitation by Tom George, 22 July 1989. Track 1. 31 Minutes 16 Seconds Scope and Content: First Translated Phrase: "When you are finished eating let me know and then we'll pray again. And they ate, the old man and his grandson until they finished." On cassette enclosure: "TH #97". On cassette box: "(Continuation of TH #96) translation of Tom George story (tape TH #93). Recorded by M.T. Thompson (continued on TH #98)"	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00163	Translation (continued) of "The Old Man and His Grandson" by M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from an original recitation by Tom George, 22 July 1989. Track 2. 31 Minutes 18 Seconds Scope and Content: First Translated Phrase: "We'll go clear land. Maybe they'll give us work." On cassette enclosure: "TH #97". On cassette box: "(Continuation of TH #96) translation of Tom George story (tape TH #93). Recorded by M.T. Thompson (continued on TH #98)"	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00164	Translation (continued) of "The Old Man and His Grandson" by M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from an original recitation by Tom George, 22 July 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 58 Seconds Scope and Content: First Translated Phrase: "He looked at the tools and he took them back to his grandfather." On cassette enclosure: "TH #98". On cassette box: "(Continuation of TH #97) translation of Tom George story (TH #93).	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00164	Conversation M. Terry Thompson, Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee, 22 July 1989. Track 2. 0 Minutes 56 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: "He had been over there. He went over there for his honeymoon, eh? With the first wife." On cassette enclosure: "TH #98". On cassette box: "(Continuation of TH #97) translation of Tom George story (TH #93).	1989-07-22
electronic_file	00165	Interview with Annie York and Mabel Joe, providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, August-September 1989. Track 1. 30 Minutes 56 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [MTT eliciting classified word list]: "Someone who is always jealous"; "and the other way"; "My husband is accusing me." On cassette enclosure: "TH #99".	1989-08; 1989-9
electronic_file	00165	Audio notes recited by M. Terry Thompson with Annie York and Mabel Joe providing intonations of the Thompson River Salishan alphabet, August-September 1989. Track 2. 2 Minutes 6 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: [Audio notes by MTT]: "Next is the glottal pharyngeal. It's written with the same letter and the raised comma or glottal mark to the right of the letter." On cassette enclosure: "TH 99". On cassette box: "Annie York, Spuzzum. Mabel Joe, Shulus, (Thompson alphabet)."	1989-08; 1989-9

Accession No. 1835-023: Laurence C. Thompson papers, approximately 1985-1995Return to Top

0.48 cubic feet (12 sound cassettes)

Scope and Content: Materials include sound recordings of linguistic field work conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson dating from approximately 1985 to 1995. Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) speakers Mabel Joe and Annie York were the informants.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson via William Seaburg, 1990 January 03.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 1: Digitized Recordings
electronic_file	item
electronic_file	00110	Stories and clarification, by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 23 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Okay, well, let's see, before we start on anything else, let me check on these things with you Annie." Ethnographic and Ethnolinguistic material clarifying and translating earlier stories. On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-1"	1990-07
electronic_file	00110	Stories and clarification, by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: AY: "You know they must be silly, I guess they don't know nothing. Crow says, 'I'm gonna go there, [maybe I'll find it]. This time we're going--[T'lap], That's the Raven--he says we didn't fly high enough." On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-1"	1990-07
electronic_file	00111	Stories, told by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 14 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: AY: "[...] Raspberries, Blackberries, everything. That turtle says, 'I don't eat that stuff.' He eats the seaweed. [Name], he tries everything on the island, and these people after a while they get used to all the food that was put on the island." On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-2"	1990-07
electronic_file	00111	Story, "A Beautiful Cloak With Decorations" told by Annie York in English and Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 7 Seconds Scope and Content: M. Terry Thompson eliciting. On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-2"	1990-07
electronic_file	00112	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 19 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: AY: "I never seen my Grandmother, she died when my mother was a baby." MTT eliciting: "Is blinded"; "A plant that makes people blind"; "To blind someone on purpose". On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-3"	1990-07
electronic_file	00112	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 21 Seconds Scope and Content: General conversation. MTT eliciting classified word list (Begins at 3:05): "The bark flutters"; "The side of the forehead, the temple"; "To blow through a blade of grass." On Cassette Enclosure: "TH 90-3"	1990-07
electronic_file	00113	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 39 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "Hair gets gray on the sides"; "To freeze something"; "You froze several things"; "My feet froze". On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-4"	1990-07
electronic_file	00113	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 24 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "I dislocated my wrist"; "I finally managed to displace it"; "It got uprooted." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-4"	1990-07
electronic_file	00114	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 20 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "When you are tanning and the buckskin gets hard"; "Your hair gets curly"; "To make a crease in something." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-5"	1990-07
electronic_file	00114	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "To pick berries with a rake"; "To display/show me something"; "I finally managed to fell it"; "I got it all spread out." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-5"	1990-07
electronic_file	00115	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "Put another lining in the house"; "I put a thin lining of paper on the wall"; "He finally went hunting." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-6"	1990-07
electronic_file	00115	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 30 Minutes 50 Seconds Scope and Content: General conversation. MTT eliciting (classified word list begins at 7:30): "To spit something out"; "He finally managed to spit it out"; "Someone spit on me." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-6"	1990-07
electronic_file	00116	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "To cup your hands and take some"; "To go out"; "To smoke them out"; "To put someone out." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-7"	1990-07
electronic_file	00116	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 2. 24 Minutes 45 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "Make a storage scaffold for yourself"; "To put a hole through." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-7"	1990-07
electronic_file	00117	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, July 1990. Track 1. 30 Minutes 54 Seconds Scope and Content: MTT eliciting classified word list: "To mumble in your sleep"; "Nightmare"; "You had a nightmare last night." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-8"	1990-07
electronic_file	00117	Conversation with Annie York in English, July 1990. Track 2. 0 Minutes 17 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "'Bout suppertime, isn't it? Well, we made some progress, that's all right." On cassette enclosure: "TH 90-8"	1990-07
electronic_file	00118	Translation of "Bear Brothers" story, provided by Mabel Joe from a prior field recording in Thompson River Salishan, 22 August 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Thompson Language. August 22nd 1990. Mabel Joe. Recorded at Lower Nicola by Terry Thompson." On cassette housing: "TH 90-9. M. Joe and T. Thompson working thru bear brothers story. 8/22/90"	1990-08-22
electronic_file	00118	Translation of "Bear Brothers" story, by Mabel Joe from a prior field recording in Thompson River Salishan, 22 August 1990. Track 2. 23 Minutes 12 Seconds Scope and Content: On cassette housing: "TH 90-9. M. Joe and T. Thompson working thru bear brothers story. 8/22/90"	1990-08-22
electronic_file	00119	Translation of "Harvest" by Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from a prior field recording of Millie Michel speaking in Thompson River Salish, 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 5 Seconds Scope and Content: First phrases translated: "They get on top of the mountain"; "Digging potatoes". On cassette housing: "M. Joe, M. Coutlee, M.T. Thompson Work on M. Michel "Harvest" TH 90-10".	1990
electronic_file	00119	Translation of "Harvest" by Mabel Joe and Mary Coutlee from a prior field recording of Millie Michel speaking in Thompson River Salish, 1990. Track 2. 31 Minutes 9 Seconds Scope and Content: First phrase translated: "You cut it and dry it". On cassette housing: "M. Joe, M. Coutlee, M.T. Thompson Work on M. Michel "Harvest" TH 90-10".	1990
electronic_file	00120	Translation of "Harvesting" by Mabel Joe from a prior field recording of Millie Michel speaking in Thompson River Salish, 27 August 1990. Track 1. 31 Minutes 0 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrase: "He weaved it or tied it together." On cassette housing: "M. Joe & M.T. Thompson - 8/27/90 M. Michel's "Harvesting". On cassette box: "TH 90-11".	1990-08-27
electronic_file	00120	Translation of "Harvesting" by Mabel Joe from a prior field recording of Millie Michel speaking in Thompson River Salish, 27 August 1990. Track 2. 30 Minutes 58 Seconds Scope and Content: First translated phrases: "Saskatoon Berries"; "I'm going to make my bread." On cassette housing: "M. Joe & M.T. Thompson - 8/27/90 M. Michel's "Harvesting". On cassette box: "TH 90-11".	1990-08-27
electronic_file	00121	Interview with Annie York providing etymologies and intonations of Thompson River Salishan, 24 July 1990. Track 1. 28 Minutes 48 Seconds Scope and Content: First words on track: MTT: "Thompson tape July 24th, 1990. Ms. Annie York. Spuzzum, BC. Recorded by M. Terry Thompson." MTT eliciting classified word list: "I froze several things"; "My feet are cold"; "Both my feet froze." On cassette enclosure: "TH"	1990-07-24

Accession No. 1835-024: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1956-1986Return to Top

14.12 cubic feet (11 boxes)

Scope and Content: Materials include research files, correspondence, teaching records, grant research files, personal files, and notes related to linguistic research and Laurence C. Thompson's professional career dating from 1956 to 1986. Research files pertain to Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish), Salishan grammar, Vietnamese grammar, and other linguistic research.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson, 1995 March 31.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Accession
1	1835-024	Employment record	1956-1986
1	1835-024	Civil Service records	1956-1986
1	1835-024	Correspondence	1956-1986
1	1835-024	Drafts	1956-1986
1	1835-024	Writings	1956-1986
1	1835-024	Thompson ethnobotany correspondence and notes	1956-1986
2	1835-024	Thompson ethnobotany FINDERLIST	1956-1986
2	1835-024	Files on control in Salish grammar General Notes: Laurence Thompson always felt that his discovery of this element in Salish was his most important contribution to Salish studies.	1956-1986
2	1835-024	Correspondence regarding Thompson’s book Vietnamese Grammar	1956-1986
2	1835-024	Writings	1956-1986
2	1835-024	General correspondence A-B	1956-1986
3	1835-024	General correspondence B-Z	1956-1986
3	1835-024	Additional correspondence	1956-1986
4	1835-024	Files relating to Thompson’s Vietnamese Grammar and Vietnamese Reader	1956-1986
4	1835-024	Correspondence and general files on Vietnamese and Southeast Asian languages	1956-1986
5	1835-024	Recommendations, evaluations, and files on former students (and advisees)	1956-1986
6	1835-024	Correspondence	1956-1986
6	1835-024	Writings	1956-1986
7	1835-024	Thompson Grammar files	1956-1986
8	1835-024	Thompson Grammar files	1956-1986
8	1835-024	Class notes and course material	1956-1986
9	1835-024	Class notes and course material	1956-1986
10	1835-024	Miscellaneous mail in plastic bag	1956-1986
10	1835-024	Grant files	1956-1986
11	1835-024	Grant files	1956-1986
11	1835-024	Class notes	1956-1986
11	1835-024	Correspondence	1956-1986
11	1835-024	Writings	1956-1986

Accession No. 1835-025: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1975-1983Return to Top

4 cubic feet (4 boxes)

Scope and Content: Materials include Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) linguistic research files created by Laurence C. Thompson, M. Terry Thompson, and Sharon Mayes dating from 1975 to 1983.

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Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson, 1996 March 13

Accession No. 1835-026: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1944-1994 (bulk 1970-1983)Return to Top

4.42 cubic feet (5 boxes, including 2 magnetic audio reels)

Scope and Content: Materials include linguistic research files, correspondence, audio recordings, and personal files created by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson dating from 1944 to 1994. Materials primarily document Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) and Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam).

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson, 1999 November 29.

Accession No. 1835-027: Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson papers, 1935, 1950-1990 (bulk 1960-1980)Return to Top

13.23 cubic feet (31 boxes, including 389 magnetic audio reels, 316 sound cassettes, 24 microfilm reels, 4 videocassettes)

Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings, field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, microfilm reels, and video recordings relating to Interior and Coastal Salish languages. Materials primarily document Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish), Secwepemctsín (Shuswap), Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam), Xwlemi (Lummi), and Tillamook. Also included to a lesser extent are research files on non-Salishan North American Indigenous languages and various South Asian languages. The accession also contains personal files relating to Laurence C. Thompson’s stroke rehabilitation.

Physical/Technical Access: Records stored offsite; advanced notice required for use. Special Media: magnetic audio reels, sound cassettes, microfilm reels, and videocassettes.

Arrangement: Materials are arranged into four series:

I. Salish linguistic files
II. North American Indigenous linguistic files
III. Southeast Asian, Armenian, Arapesh, Irish Gaelic linguistic files
IV. Personal files

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Records stored offsite; advanced notice required for use. Special Media: magnetic audio reels, sound cassettes, microfilm reels, and videocassettes.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson, 2004 April 21.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
item
Series I		Salish linguistic files Arrangement: The series is arranged into two subseries: I.A. Interior Salish linguistic files I.B. Coast Salish linguistic files Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings, field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, microfilm reels, and video recordings relating to Interior and Coastal Salish languages.	1935, 1950-1980; 1960-1980
Box	Accession
18	1835-027	Salish field notes: microfilm reels 2 reels	approximately 1960-1980
27	1835-027	Salish: audio recordings 3 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
item
Subseries I.A.		Interior Salish Arrangement: Materials are arranged by language and dialect. Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings, field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, microfilm reels, and video recordings relating to Interior Salish languages. Materials primarily document Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish).	1935, 1952-1980
Box	Accession
7	1835-027	Secwepemctsín (Shuswap): audio recordings 23 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
8	1835-027	Secwepemctsín (Shuswap): audio recordings 5 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Secwepemctsín (Shuswap): audio recordings 12 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
8	1835-027	Secwepemctsín (Shuswap) and S'át'imcets (Lillooet): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
8	1835-027	S'át'imcets (Lillooet): audio recordings 12 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	S'át'imcets (Lillooet): microfilm reels 5 reels	approximately 1960-1980
26	1835-027	S'át'imcets (Lillooet): audio recordings 2 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
1	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): field notes about plants and baskets, informants Annie York and Arthur Urquhart	1968-1970
1	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): field methods class notes, informant Mabel Joe	1977
1	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): field notes, informants Isaac Oates, William Samson, Mamie Henry	1961-1962
1	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): field notes, informant Annie York 7 folders	1969-1972
2	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): field notes, informant Annie York	1972-1973
2	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish), Merritt, BC: field notes by Sharon Mayes, informant Mabel Joe 4 folders	1975-1980
3	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): video recording of Mabel Joe 1 videocassette	1977
3	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): "Thompson land claims NVIA," "Raven's View," and "Land Claims Coldwater Band" video recordings 3 videocassettes	1976
3	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): beginning Nlaka'pamuctsin lessons vocabulary cards by Mamie Henry	1973
4, 5	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): vocabulary word cards that can be used in a Bell & Howell Language Master machine	approximately 1960-1980
8	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 5 magnetic audio reels	1964-1968, undated
9	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 18 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
10	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 18 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
11	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 18 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
12	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 18 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
13	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 8 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
13	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish), Merritt, BC: audio recordings 15 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
14	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish), Merritt, BC: audio recordings 15 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
19	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 35 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
20	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 34 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
21	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 34 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
22	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 35 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
23	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 34 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
24	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 36 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
25	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 36 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
26	1835-027	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recordings 32 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
14	1835-027	Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene): Sloat audio recordings 6 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
14	1835-027	Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
15	1835-027	Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene): Sloat audio recordings 4 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene): microfilm reels, includes Sloat notebooks 3 reels	approximately 1960-1980
15	1835-027	Snchitsu'umshtsn (Coeur d'Alene) and Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1935, 1952
15	1835-027	Nxaảmxcín (Columbia-Moses, Columbia-Wenatchi): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	1953
15	1835-027	Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan) and Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1968
15	1835-027	Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan-Methow): audio recordings 7 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1975
18	1835-027	Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan): microfilm reel 1 reel	approximately 1960-1975
26	1835-027	Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan): audio recordings 2 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
27	1835-027	Okanagan (Colville-Okanagan): audio recordings 1 sound cassette	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Npoqínišcn (Spokane): microfilm reel 1 reel	approximately 1960-1980
Subseries I.B.		Coast Salish Arrangement: Materials are arranged by language and dialect. Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings, field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, and microfilm reels relating to Coastal Salish languages. Materials primarily document Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam), Xwlemi (Lummi), and Tillamook.	1950-1980
Box	Accession
15	1835-027	ʔAyajuθəm (Comox), Sliammon: audio recording	1965
15	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem), Cowichan: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1974
16	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem), Cowichan: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1974
27	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem), Cowichan: audio recording 4 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
16	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem): audio recordings 4 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1975
16	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem), Chilliwack: audio recordings 6 magnetic audio reels	1963
18	1835-027	Halq̓eméylem/Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ (Halkomelem), Chilliwack: microfilm reel, Jimmy G. Harris field notes 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
1	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Skaǰət (Skagit): field notes 2 folders	1961, undated
1	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Skaǰət (Skagit): Tom Hess' field notes	1975-1976
1	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Skaǰət (Skagit): field notes, informant Louise George 2 folders	1962, 1966
18	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Skaǰət (Skagit): microfilm reel 1 reel	1970
16	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Puyallup: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1960
30	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Puyallup: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Dxʷləšúcid (Lushootseed), Puyallup: microfilm reel 1 reel	1964
2	1835-027	Lhéchalosem (Nooksack): field notes 3 folders	1966-1967
31	1835-027	Lhéchalosem (Nooksack): audio recordings 10 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
16	1835-027	Sháshíshálh (Sechelt): audio recordings 5 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Sháshíshálh (Sechelt): microfilm reels, Grekoff field notes 2 reels	1965
16	1835-027	Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim (Squamish): audio recordings 6 magnetic audio reels	1963, undated
1	1835-027	Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam): field notes	1968-1976
27	1835-027	Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam): audio recordings 16 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam): audio recordings 10 magnetic audio reels and 8 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
1	1835-027	Xwlemi (Lummi): field notes	1965
16	1835-027	Xwlemi (Lummi): audio recordings 23 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1950-1975
17	1835-027	Xwlemi (Lummi): audio recordings 11 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1950-1975
27	1835-027	Xwlemi (Lummi): audio recordings 4 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
31	1835-027	Xwlemi (Lummi): audio recordings 9 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
17	1835-027	SENĆOŦEN (Saanich): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	1971
27	1835-027	SENĆOŦEN (Saanich): audio recordings 4 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Twana: microfilm reels 3 reels	1964, undated
31	1835-027	Twana: audio recordings 8 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
17	1835-027	Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉ (Upper Chehalis), Satsop: audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	1952
17	1835-027	Q̉ʷay̓áyiłq̉ (Upper Chehalis), Satsop: audio recordings 8 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
17	1835-027	Kʷínaył (Quinault): audio recordings 4 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1950-1980
18	1835-027	Kʷínaył (Quinault): microfilm reel 1 reel	1962
17	1835-027	Tillamook: audio recordings 12 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1970
27	1835-027	Tillamook: audio recordings 4 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
28	1835-027	Tillamook: audio recordings 39 sound cassettes	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish): audio recordings 8 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish), Suquamish: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish), Columbian: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish), Skaǰət (Skagit), dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish), Skaǰət (Skagit): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Lekwungen (Songish): audio recordings 3 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	Xws7ámeshqen (Samish): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
29	1835-027	sqʷuqʷóbəš (Skokomish): audio recordings 6 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	Skaǰət (Skagit): audio recordings 34 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	Skaǰət (Skagit), Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	Skaǰət (Skagit), Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish), dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	dxʷsqʷaliʔ abš (Nisqually): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	dxʷsqʷaliʔ abš (Nisqually), Suquamish: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish): audio recordings 9 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
30	1835-027	dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish), Sdoh-doh-hohbsh (Snohomish): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
Series II		North American Indigenous linguistic files Arrangement: Materials remain in original order. Scope and Content: Materials include audio recordings and field notes relating to various North American Indigenous languages. The series includes a small amount of materials about Chinook Jargon, Tsimshian, Ichishkíin Sínwit (Yakama Sahaptin), Kʷòʔlíyotʼ (Quileute), qʷi·qʷi·diččaq (Makah), Athabaskan, Tututni (Coquille Athabaskan), Ohlone (Costanoan), and Nutunutu/Tachi.	1950-1980
Box	Accession
2	1835-027	Chinook Jargon: field notes	1968
17	1835-027	Chinook Jargon: audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	1968, undated
2	1835-027	Field notes relating to Salish languages (Twana, Squamish, Lummi, Snohomish, Klallam, Comox, Sliammon, Sechelt, Tillamook, Nooksack, Salish-Spokane-Kalispel, Samish) and Tsimshian	1963-1964
17	1835-027	Ichishkíin Sínwit (Yakama Sahaptin): audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	approximately 1960-1980
17	1835-027	Kʷòʔlíyotʼ (Quileute) and qʷi·qʷi·diččaq (Makah): audio recordings 3 magnetic audio reels	1954, undated
17	1835-027	Athabaskan: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1960-1980
17	1835-027	Tututni (Coquille Athabaskan): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	approximately 1950-1963
17	1835-027	Ohlone (Costanoan): audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1957
17	1835-027	Tsimshian: audio recording 1 magnetic audio reel	1963
17	1835-027	Nutunutu/Tachi: audio recordings 2 magnetic audio reels	1957
Series III		Southeast Asian, Armenian, Arapesh, Irish Gaelic linguistic files Arrangement: Materials remain in original order. Scope and Content: Materials include field notes, essays, and notes relating to linguistic research on the following languages: Thai, Khmer (Cambodian), Basa Jawa (Javanese), tiếng Việt (Vietnamese), Armenian, Arapesh, and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic).	1950-1980
Box	Accession
1	1835-027	Thai: field notes	1961
2	1835-027	Khmer (Cambodian): field notes, essays, and notes by William Shipley	1958-1960
2	1835-027	Basa Jawa (Javanese): field notes by Rod Hemphill	1950
2	1835-027	tiếng Việt (Vietnamese): field notes from Saigon, Vietnam and Da Lat	1951-1952
3	1835-027	Armenian and Arapesh: field notes	1968, 1978
3	1835-027	Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic): field notes	1980
Series IV		Personal files Arrangement: Materials remain in original order. Scope and Content: Materials include a Bell and Howell Language Master machine, unidentified microfilm reels, and documents relating to Laurence C. Thompson’s stroke rehabilitation.	1960-1990
Box	Accession
3	1835-027	Papers from Laurence C. Thompson's stroke rehabilitation 6 folders	1983-1990
6	1835-027	Bell and Howell Language Master machine	approximately 1960-1980
18	1835-027	Unidentified field notes: microfilm reels 4 reels	approximately 1960-1980

Accession No. 1835-028: Laurence C. Thompson papers, 1939, 1961-2009 (bulk 1961-1990)Return to Top

10.23 cubic feet (13 boxes)

Scope and Content: Materials include language notes, word lists, dictionaries, and grammar books for languages and dialects; field notes by Thomas Hess, Laurence C. Thompson, and M. Terry Thompson; correspondence; audio recordings of sounds, words, conversations, and other linguistics sessions; and dissertations, master's theses, and other scholarly papers dating from 1939 to 2009. Materials primarily document the following Salishan languages and dialects: Nuxalk (Bella Coola), Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam), Xwlemi (Lummi), Xws7ámeshqen (Samish), Lekwungen (Songhees), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim (Squamish), T'Sou-ke (T'Sou-ke or Sooke), Northern Straits Salish, and Tillamook. Also included are materials relating to the Ka:'yu:'k't'h' (Kyuquot) dialect of Nuučaan̓uɫ (Northern Nuu-chah-nulth), a Wakashan language.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Restrictions may exist on copying, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

Acquisition Info: Materials were donated by M. Terry Thompson, 2014 April 21.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Accession
1	1835-028	Master's theses	1961-1989
1	1835-028	Scholarly linguistics publications	1961-1989
2	1835-028	Master's theses and dissertations	1961-2000
2	1835-028	Words lists	1961-2000
2	1835-028	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish)-English dictionary	1961-2000
2	1835-028	Correspondence	1961-2000
3	1835-028	Correspondence	1972-1999
3	1835-028	Notes and research files	1972-1999
3	1835-028	Word lists, histories, and other linguistic publications	1972-1999
4	1835-028	Dictionaries, word lists, and grammar books	1966-1984
4	1835-028	Thomas Hess' field notes	1966-1984
5	1835-028	"Thompson Land Claims" video recording 1 videocassette	1976
5	1835-028	Nlaka'pamuctsin (Thompson River Salish) ethnobotany audio recording 1 sound cassette	1985 October
5	1835-028	Tillamook Dictionary draft	undated
5	1835-028	Nuxalk (Bella Coola) and Ka:'yu:'k't'h' (Kyuquot) grammar	1983
5	1835-028	Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam) dictionary	1987
5	1835-028	"The Thompson Language" with index and final corrections by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson	1991
5	1835-028	"Saanich Morphology and Phonology" by Timothy Montlek	1984
5	1835-028	Dissertation titled "Sooke Grammar"	1969
5	1835-028	Correspondence	1956-1982
6	1835-028	Correspondence	1971-1997
6	1835-028	Research, course materials, and lectures relating to the development of linguistic coursework	1971-1997
6	1835-028	Comparative Salish linguistic research files	1971-1997
7	1835-028	Comparative Salish linguistic research files	1971-2006
7	1835-028	Comparative North Straits Salish linguistic research files	1971-2006
7	1835-028	M.D. Kinkade research files	1971-2006
7	1835-028	Salish root lists	1971-2006
7	1835-028	Inventory lists	1971-2006
7	1835-028	Field notebooks	1971-2006
8	1835-028	Archives information	1965-1996
8	1835-028	Correspondence	1965-1996
8	1835-028	Research files	1965-1996
8	1835-028	Vocabularies	1965-1996
9	1835-028	Dictionaries and language notes	1971-2009
9	1835-028	International Journal for American Linguistics	1939 May
9	1835-028	Correspondence	1971-2009
9	1835-028	Notes	1971-2009
10	1835-028	Audio recordings relating to field notes sound cassettes	1973-1989
10	1835-028	Field notes	1973-1989
11	1835-028	Audio recordings of sounds, words, and conversations sound cassettes	1976-1979
12	1835-028	Audio recordings of linguistics sessions sound cassettes	1976
13	1835-028	Audio recordings of linguistics sessions sound cassettes	1976

Accession No. 1835-029: Laurence C. and M. Terry Thompson papers, 1950-2014Return to Top

6.4 cubic feet (5 boxes including 22 audio cassettes, 9 CDs, 9 floppy disks)

Arrangement: Arranged in 6 series.

Series 1, Laurence C. Thompson: Professional career
Series 2, Salish myths and legends: One people's stories
Series 3, Klallam Language
Series 4, University of Washington Special Collections
Series 5, Subject Series
Series 6, Personal files

Scope and Content: Materials include field notes, language notes, word lists, dictionaries, audio recordings related to Vietnamese and Salish languages. Language materials primarily document the Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən (Klallam) language. This accession also includes drafts and correspondence related to the creation of M. Terry Thompson and Steve Egesdal’s book Salish myths and legends: one people’s stories, grant research files, correspondence regarding Laurence C. Thompson’s professional career, UW Special Collections, Jacobs Research Funds, Melville Jacobs Collection and Northwest Linguistic Collection.

Restrictions on Access: Access restricted: For terms of access, contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Restrictions on Use: Copyrights retained by creator. Contact University of Washington Libraries Special Collections for details.

Acquisition Info: Donated by M. Terry Thompson via Patrice Tilka, December 2021.

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Series 1: Laurence C. Thompson: Professional career
Box	Accession
1	1835-029	Bio-biblio forms and biographical sketches	1966, 1983
1	1835-029	Curriculum vitae	undated
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1966-1970
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1971-1973
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1973-1974
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1974-1976
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1977-1978
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1978-1980
1	1835-029	Correspondence--professional	1980-1983
1	1835-029	Publications Scope and Content: Includes: "The Vietnamese language and its study in the United States," Am-He Tieng Saigon," "Saigon Phonemics," "Proto-Viet-Muong phonology," "Vietnam," "The History of Vietnamese final palatals," "Some internal evidence for the history of Vietnamese tones," "Vietnamese language," and book reviews	1959-1972
1	1835-029	University of Hawaii appointment	1968
1	1835-029	University of Hawaii time use worksheets	1973, 1980-1982
		Series 2: Salish myths and legends: One people's stories General Notes: Original title: One people's stories: A collection of Salishan myths and legends
Box	Accession
1	1835-029	One People's Stories (OPS)--proposal correspondence	1994
1	1835-029	Requests for contributions and guidelines	1995
1	1835-029	Correspondence with Smithsonian Institution Press	1995-1997
1	1835-029	Contributor correspondence	1995
1	1835-029	Contributor correspondence	1996
1	1835-029	Contributor correspondence	2005-2006
1	1835-029	Contributor correspondence	2007
1	1835-029	Contributor correspondence	2008
1	1835-029	Contributor agreements (with Smithsonian Institution Press)	1997
1	1835-029	Ron C. Beaumont submission (Sechelt)	1996
1	1835-029	Introduction draft and correspondence	1997
1	1835-029	Introduction draft	undated
1	1835-029	"Larry Thompson OPS 1996" notebook	1996
1	1835-029	Contributor list and addresses	1995, 2007
1	1835-029	University of Washington Press correspondence	1999-2000
1	1835-029	University of Nebraska Press (final publishers)	2005-2008
1	1835-029	Author agreements	2005
1	1835-029	Cut chapters	undated
1	1835-029	Cover	2007
1	1835-029	Permissions	1997-2007
1	1835-029	Manuscript: "South Wind's Journeys: A Tillamook epic" Scope and Content: Excerpt from One People's Stories: A collection of Salishan tales	2005
1	1835-029	Salish myths and legends: One people's stories--annotated draft 4 folders	2007
		Series 3: Klallam Language
Box	Accession
2	1835-029	Klallam Dictionary--Draft Copy General Notes: Compiled by M. Terry Thompson and Laurence C. Thompson with direction from Martha Charles John	undated
2	1835-029	Klallam Dictionary (5/20/87) 6 folders	1987
2	1835-029	"Klallam Classified Word List"	undated
2	1835-029	Klallam Rootlist (12/20/85)	1985
2	1835-029	Klallam Student Dictionary--draft	1993
2	1835-029	Learning Nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əmúcən: Materials for Learning and Teaching the Klallam Language--Incomplete, preliminary version General Notes: Developed by Timothy Montler for The Klallam Language Program Elwha Klallam Tribe	1994
2	1835-029	English-Klallam Finderlist (8/29/86) (annotated)	1986
2	1835-029	English-Klallam Finderlist (draft)	1987
2	1835-029	Klallam Dictionary notes	1982-1986
2	1835-029	Klallam-English Dictionary and Finder	1992-1993
2	1835-029	"Klallam--Retranscription of Field notes"	1982
2	1835-029	"KL Old grammar notes LCT " folder	undated
2	1835-029	"Clallam Notebook #1: Re-check of forms from tape"	1971
2	1835-029	Klallam field notes	undated
2	1835-029	Klallam texts: Kakantu--Martha Charles John interviews	1967-1969, 1971, 1975
2	1835-029	Klallam-related ephemera Scope and Content: Calendar, clippings, letters, notes, CD titled: "Ancestral Stories of the Klallam People" by Elaine Grinnell	1995, 2000, 2011
5	1835-029	"KL A-3, KL-A-4: Amy Allen" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Playback of other recording, Amy Allen repeat and translate General Notes: Recorded by Leon Metcalf	1959?
5	1835-029	"Klallam Animals, Huckelberry Story" 1 cassette	undated
5	1835-029	"Klallam Useful Phrases, Klallam Days and Months" 1 cassette	undated
5	1835-029	"Klallam Songs 1995" 1 cassette General Notes: Sung by Linda Laungayan, Jennifer Wallen, Jamie Valdez	1995
5	1835-029	"Klallam Lessons: How to use the tapes" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Recorded by M. Terry Thompson	1974
5	1835-029	"KL Language: Lessons 1-4" (copy) 1 cassette	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 5-7" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. Nell Sullivan--Klallam, Mrs. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 8-10" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. M. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 11-12" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. M. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 13-15 (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. M. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 16-18" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. M. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"Klallam Language: Lessons 19-20" (copy) 1 cassette General Notes: Mrs. Josephine Williams--Klallam, Mrs. M. Terry Thompson--English	1974
5	1835-029	"KL T-28 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Texts and vocabulary General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1969
5	1835-029	"KL T-29 Martha John, N. Gamble Bay" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 5 pp 358-376 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1969
5	1835-029	"KL T-30 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 5 pp. 376-385 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1969
5	1835-029	"KL T-31 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 6 pp 386-397 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1969
5	1835-029	"KL T-32 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 6 pp. 398-411 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1969
5	1835-029	"KL T-33, T-34, Martha Charles John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 6 pp. 411-422 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson; Note: "Short pause after T-33, T-34 picks up after story"	1970
5	1835-029	"KL T-35 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 6 pp. 422-425 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1970
5	1835-029	"KL T-36 Martha John" (copy) 1 cassette Scope and Content: Notebook 6 pp. 426-438 General Notes: Recorded by Laurence C. Thompson	1970
		Series 4: University of Washington Special Collections
Box	Accession
3	1835-029	University of Washington--Special Collections correspondence Scope and Content: Includes deeds of gift, letters of acknowledgement, permissions	1972-2014
3	1835-029	Jacobs Research Fund Scope and Content: Includes some board minutes, correspondence, memos, addresses, grantee list	1988-2012
3	1835-029	Melville Jacobs Collection Scope and Content: Includes an annotated inventory of recordings and field notebooks taken at Jacobs' home	undated
3	1835-029	Melville Jacobs Collection--correspondence	1971-2007
3	1835-029	Northwest Linguistic Collection	1972-2010
3	1835-029	Northwest Linguistic Collection--correspondence	1967-2011
3	1835-029	Digitization project--Indian languages in Northwest Linguistics, Melville Jacobs, Jacobs Fund Collections--correspondence	2009
		Series 5: Subject Series
Box	Accession
3	1835-029	American Anthropological Association (AAA) annual meeting (Conference on American Indian languages)	1978
3	1835-029	"A bibliographic check list of five Pacific Northwest Indian languages ( Chimakuan, Kutenai, Ritwan, Salishan, Wakashan)" General Notes: by Fred W. Adler	1960
3	1835-029	"North American Indian Languages: A selected bibliography" General Notes: by Dale Kinkade	1973
3	1835-029	"A bibliography of descriptive linguistics: American writings to 1952" General Notes: Compiled by Bernard Bloch	1952
3	1835-029	"Northwest Coast and Plateau Indian myths and tales bibliography" General Notes: Compiled by William R. Seaburg	2005
3	1835-029	"Bibliography on Salishan languages and linguistics--7/2004" General Notes: Compiled by Nadine Proske	2004
3	1835-029	Field notes--Steve Egesdad	1982
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Colville Dictionary General Notes: Project director: Anthony Mattina	1980
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Salish Lexicography General Notes: Project director: Donald Topping	1987
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: FLDIC Flathead Dictionary	1998
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Thompson Salish Texts	1994
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Lushootseed Text Analysis General Notes: Project director: Hanni J. Woodbury, Anne Galin	1980
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Linguistic Research on the Samish Language General Notes: Project director: Richard A. Demers, Eloise Jelinek	1986
3	1835-029	Grant proposal: Restoration and Improved Access for the Language Archive General Notes: Project director: Joseph E. Grimes	1983
3	1835-029	Leon Metcalf list of recordings	1950-1954
3	1835-029	Newsletters General Notes: Includes Northwest Ethnic News, Northwest Languages Newsletter, The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas Newsletter, California-Oregon Languages Newsletter	1979-1989
3	1835-029	Notebooks	undated
4	1835-029	Notecards--Vietnamese	undated
5	1835-029	Notecards--Lushootseed	undated
5	1835-029	Notecards--unidentified	undated
3	1835-029	"Phonetic" folder--Informant data sheets, Chiefs and Councilors, Band Administration Offices Directory	1974, 1978
3	1835-029	Reviews	1967-2011
3	1835-029	Thompson Dictionary--workfile for final printing	1990
3	1835-029	The Thompson Language--preface draft	undated
3	1835-029	Tillamook--Northwest Word List	undated
3	1835-029	"Trial Thompson Tergum"	undated
3	1835-029	"The uses of first names" (draft) General Notes: by Kathrine S. French, presented at Annual meeting of American Anthropological Association	1981
3	1835-029	Dr. Charles Vogelin Scope and Content: Includes clippings, honorary doctorate degree, obituary, correspondence	approximately 1977-1983
3	1835-029	Vietnamese--miscellaneous correspondence	2000
3	1835-029	Assorted CD-ROMs 8 CDs Scope and Content: Labeled: "Salish Research Foundation, Tillamook 1/4' audio Reels," "Terry Thompson Collection," "Translation to UNP 9/16/09", "Terry Thompson Floppy Disks 1 and 2," ""Thompson Unicode.exe," "TTV interview backup 3/1/08"	undated, 2008-2009
3	1835-029	Assorted floppy disks 8 3.5" floppy disks, 1 5" floppy disk	undated
3	1835-029	Unidentified field notes	undated, 1972, 1979
5	1835-029	"Lummi: Joe Hillaire and others" 1 cassette Scope and Content: Side A: mostly song, Side B: Text by old man with Joe Hillaire.	undated
5	1835-029	"Lummi T-1: Angeline Alexander" (copy) 1 cassette	1968
		Series 6: Personal files
Box	Accession
3	1835-029	Correspondence--miscellaneous	approximately 1979-2010
3	1835-029	Correspondence--personal	approximately 1973-2013
3	1835-029	Ephemera
5	1835-029	One People's Stories self-inking stamp	undated

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Subject Terms

Ntlakyapamuk Indians--Ethnobotany
Ntlakyapamuk language
Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Salish language
Vietnamese language

Personal Names

Thompson, Laurence C.--Archives

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Amoss, Pamela (creator)
- Bouchard, Randy (creator)
- Bowman, Elizabeth (creator)
- Campbell, Lillian N (creator)
- Coutlee, Mary (creator)
- Efrat, Barbara S., 1935- (creator)
- Fetzer, Paul S (creator)
- George, Tom (creator)
- Gibson, James (creator)
- Grekoff, George (creator)
- Harris, Jimmy G (creator)
- Hess, Thom, 1936-2009 (creator)
- Hilbert, Vi (creator)
- Joe, Mabel (creator)
- Mattina, Anthony (creator)
- Mayes, Sharon (creator)
- Michel, M (creator)
- Phelps, Elaine Farkas (creator)
- Powell, J. V (creator)
- Seaburg, William R (creator)
- Sloat, Clarence, 1936- (creator)
- Snyder, Warren Arthur, 1918- (creator)
- Thompson, M. Terry (creator)
- Turner, Nancy J., 1947- (creator)
- York, Annie, Miss (creator)
Corporate Names
- Northwest Linguistic Collection (creator)

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