Passamaquoddy and Maliseet Speakers
The men and women who worked with Margaret Apt, including those whose contributions come from recordings and writings, and from the memories of contemporary speakers, are listed below. The initials shown are those used in the dictionary entries to indicate the source of example sentences. The authors have made every effort to acknowledge the source of the example sentences in the dictionary entries, where possible. Examples credited to Lewis Mitchell (LM, 1847–1930) are taken from his stories, as published in John Dyneley Prince's "Passamaquoddy Texts" (1921), and as edited by David A. Francis.
Passamaquoddy Contributors at Pleasant Point
| Frances Allen (FA) Rita Altvater (RA) Margaret Apt (MA) Frank Atwin Joan Barnes (JB) Lester Bassett (LB) Mary Bassett (MB) Shirley Cogswell (SC) Mary Creighton (MC) Andrea Dana (AnD) Brenda Dana Lozada (BDL) Jeff Dana (JeD) Grace Davis (GD) Joyce Doten (JD) David A. Francis (DAF) Deanna Francis (DF) Marian Francis (MNF) Melvin Francis (MF) Mitchell Francis Ralph Francis (RF) Bernice Greeley (BG) John Holmes (JH) John P. Homan (JPH) Hilda Lewis (HSL) Horace Lola (HL) Lewis Mitchell (LM) Andrew Moore (AndM) Antoinette Moore (AM) Fred Moore (FM) |
Raymond Moore, Sr. (RM) |
Passamaquoddy Contributors at Indian Township
| Albert Dana (AD) Irene Dana (ID) Mary Mae Larrabee (MML) Elizabeth Newell (EN) Wayne A. Newell (WN) Roger Paul (RP) Blanche Sockabasin (BS) Lola Sockabasin (LS) |
Patricia Nicholas Sockabasin (PN) Raphael Sockabasin (RaphS) Mary Ellen Stevens (Socobasin) (MES) Donald G. Soctomah (DGS) George “Big John” Soctomah John Stevens (JS) Frank Tomah (FT) |
Maliseet Contributors
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Roseanne Clark (RC) Linguist Janet Warne collected words from Peter Paul, Simon Paul, and Oliver Polchies, which were subsequently recorded by Lloyd Leland (JW/LL) |
Editorial Committee (Passamaquoddy)
| Joan Barnes Shirley Cogswell John Holmes John P. Homan Wayne A. Newell Joseph A. Nicholas Roger Paul Mary Yarmal |
Maliseet and Passamaquoddy Contributors to Kolusuwakonol
Kolusuwakonol, an earlier version of the dictionary (Micmac-Maliseet Institute, 1984), was developed by Philip S. LeSourd (PSL). Those speakers who contributed to this dictionary in the 1970s were acknowledged as a group in the 1984 publication, rather than by name in individual entries; the symbol * indicates those who also contributed to the present dictionary or to Tales from Maliseet Country
| Veronica Atwin Audrey Cote *Albert Dana Charles Dana Colleen Dana Philomene Dana Vickey Dana *David A. Francis Lorraine Gabriel Peter Gabriel Simon Gabriel Albert Harnois |
Anna Harnois Estelle Neptune *Wayne A. Newell *Joseph A. Nicholas *Peter Lewis Paul *Clara Polches George Sockabasin *Mary Ellen Stevens (Socobasin) Eleanor Socoby Aloysius Sopiel Beverly Sopiel Maxine Tomah |
Contributors to Tales from Maliseet Country
All excerpts from these tales (recorded in 1963 by Karl V. Teeter) are identified in the entries using the attribution MT, for “Maliseet Tales.” The sentences in dictionary entries were taken from an early pre-publication draft and reviewed by David A. Francis. Consequently they may differ from those found in the published edition (edited by Philip S. LeSourd, University of Nebraska Press, 2007). Any errors or omissions are the dictionary authors’ responsibility. The Maliseet storytellers recorded by Karl V. Teeter were the following, all credited as (MT).
| Charles Laporte Lawrence Paul Peter Lewis Paul Solomon Polchies Alexander Sacobie Mathilda Sappier William Saulis Madeline Tomah |
Audio Recorders at Pleasant Point and Indian Township
The following people have recorded dictionary entries as part of the Passamaquoddy Language Preservation Project.
| Margaret Apt Donnell Dana Plansowes Dana Pqiptes Dana Brenda Dana Lozada Gracie Davis Alberta Francis David Francis Donald Francis Scott Francis |
Stephanie Francis Susan Newell Wayne Newell Barbara Dore Roger Paul Donald Soctomah Madonna Soctomah Nancy Soctomah Alice Claire Tomah Dwayne Tomah |
Additional Sources
A number of entries and example phrases have been found in the Passamaquoddy folder of Albert S. Gatschet, found in the archives of the Canadian Museum of History (Box: 131, f3), dated 1896. The introductory pages list various Passamaquoddy and Maliseet speakers in Maine and New Brunswick, and attribution of a word or phrase to a particular speaker is not always clear. These entries and examples are listed as having come from the notes of Gatschet (AG).
Entries and example phrases have also been taken from the Malecite-Passamaquoddy Dictionary compiled by John Dyneley Prince and consisting of words collected from Lewis Mitchell, of Pleasant Point (American Philosophical Society, Frank G. Speck Papers, Mss.Ms.Coll.126, 1921). These entries and examples are credited to Lewis Mitchell (LM).