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A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson Dec 1998

A Penobscot Assessment Of Frank Siebert, Eunice Baumann-Nelson

Maine History

Dr. Eunice Baumann-Nelson is the author of The Wabanaki: An Annotated Bibliography. She was bom on Indian Island, and she became the first Penobscot to get a B.A., and later got an M.A. in Child Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Relations at N. Y. U. Later still she received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine. She served in the Peace Corps in Peru and Bolivia, was the head of the Vassar art library and head librarian at The Museum of the American Indian in New York City. She has long been a student …


Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D. Dec 1998

Frank Siebert -- Then, And More Than "Forty Years On”, Richard B. Singer M.D.

Maine History

Richard B. Singer; M.D., is a consultant in medical risk appraisal and lives in Falmouth, Maine. He and Frank Siebert went to school together in the late 1920s. At a class reunion in 1980, they rediscovered each other and have corresponded since. In what follows, Singer describes their encounters over the past seven decades.


Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard Dec 1998

Encounters With Frank Siebert, Ives Goddard

Maine History

Ives Goddard, Curator of the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, is the author of “Eastern Algonquian Languages," in The Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 15. He co-authored, with Kathleen f. Bragdon, Native Writings n Massachusetts and more recently edited The Handbook Of North American Indians, Vol. 17, Languages.


Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter Dec 1998

Siebert As Algonquianist, Karl Van Duyn Teeter

Maine History

Karl V. (van Duyn) Teeter learned Japanese as a U.S. Army draftee during the Korean War. Upon his discharge from the military in 1954 he went to Berkeley, majoring in Oriental Languages. He entered Berkeley ’s linguistics program and did fieldwork with the last speaker of Wiyot, a language indigenous to northern California that has since been demonstrated to be genetically related to all the Algonquian languages. After coming to Harvard in 1959 he studied Maliseet-Passamaquoddy and, for several years, chaired Harvard’s linguistics department. He is now Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus at Harvard. What follows is his assessment of Frank …


My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett Dec 1998

My Relationship With Frank Siebert, Richard Garrett

Maine History

The next essay was written by Richard Garrett, who created the Penobscot Primer Project, a continuing exhibit at the Hudson Museum, University of Maine. Garrett lives in Wellington, Maine and, since 1995, has been the Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Siebert Project, funded by the National Science Foundation.


Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young Dec 1998

Chronicles Of Dr. Frank T. Siebert Jr ., Martha Young

Maine History

Martha Young, who has written twenty-two grant applications in the last ten years for educational, research, and community projects, lives in Wellington, Maine, with her husband, Richard Garrett, and, since 1995, has been Frank Siebert’s research assistant. She wrote the following account of Frank and her relationship with him. This is followed by a Siebert bibliography that she and Frank compiled together.


Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young Dec 1998

Bibliography Of Frank T. Siebert, Frank Siebert, Martha Young

Maine History

Bibliography of Frank T. Siebert as appended to Chronicles of Dr. Frank T. Siebert


Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes Dec 1998

Etymology Of Tuscarora, Blair A. Rudes

Maine History

Dr. Blair A. Rudes has conducted linguistic and ethnographic work with members of the Tuscarora Nation of Indians in New York State since the early 1970s. In 1987 he published with Dorothy Crouse, a Tuscarora and historian, a two-volume collection of texts in Tuscarora and English entitled The Tuscarora Legacy of J.N.B. Hewitt: Materials for the Study of the Tuscarora Language and Culture. He is presently completing a dictionary of the Tuscarora language. Dr. Rudes received his doctorate in linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976.