Text Analysis on a Native American Corpus
Eustina Kim, Michelle Lee, Priyana Patel, Vicki Truong Overview Corpus Background The corpus used for analysis included documents from the American State Papers and notes from treaty councils with Native Americans. The American State Papers is a collection of legislative and executive documents from Congress during 1789 to 1838. The documents are arranged in the following ten classes: Foreign Relations, Indian Affairs, Finances, Commerce and Navigation, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post Office Department, Public Lands, Claims, and Miscellaneous. We used texts from the Indian Affairs class for analysis, which has two volumes: Volume 1 from 1789 to 1814 and Volume 2 from 1815 to 1827. The treaty council papers include transcription notes from treaty councils during the period 1784-1814. Initially, treaties between the United States and Native American leaders focused…