A language lost due to colonization is being spoken once again by the Mattaponi. Mattaponi Chief Lionel “Wise Spirit” Custalow recently held a virtual Algonquin language class for tribal members ...

There was once a linguistic landscape of incredible diversity in North America. While the continent of Europe has three main language families — Romance, Germanic, and Slavic — Native American ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

Truman Michelson's handwritten linguistic notes on various Algonquian languages from his work with students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania during the winter of 1911-1912. The ...

“Successful collaborations between Indigenous activists and academic linguists: How IYIL led to three projects for the IDIL.” Shannon Bischoff, Monica Macaulay, D.H. Whalen PDF “Three Algonquian ...

Moviegoers who go see Terrence Malick's movie The New World will hear a scientifically restored "lost world." For almost a third of the film, a largely unrecorded Native American language that no one ...

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite ...

The truism is that if you want to know a culture, learn the language. But what if the language and the culture are both dead – long, long dead? Historical linguists, social scientists who are the ...