Extractions: @import "supercss.css"; We have brought together some highly recommended resources for teachers, students, families and community members who are looking for good literature on or by Native Americans. There is a vast body of such literature, but it is often not readily available in school or public libraries outside of areas with large Native American populations. We hope to help make this literature and the resources that promote it more widely known and available. On these pages, we offer links to some outstanding on-line bibliographies, such as Oyate, as well as reprinted material from collections and annotated bibliographies, such as Through Indian Eyes and Roots and Branches . Almost all titles found in these bibliographies offer guidelines on appropriate grade level, subject area, and interdisciplinary applications. In addition, we have culled titles from two of these bibliographies and organized them according to subject area. We offer these titles as a means to gain them a wider audience both among Native peoples who seek good literature that reflects their experiences and among non-Natives who seek to learn the diversity and complexity of Native history and contemporary life. Publications Bibliographies The Indian Reading Series , 140 culturally relevant stories written by local Indian authors and illustrated by Indian artists from 1972-1983, is a community-based reading and language arts program especially for Indian children. Twelve Northwest Indian reservations actively participated in the program from its 1972 beginning, producing a unique supplementary reading and language development program for Indian and non-Indian children. The materials were authenticated by the participating tribes and field tested with over 1200 Indian and non-Indian children in 93 classrooms throughout the Northwest.
Foreign Language Study > Native American Languages Foreign Language Study native american languages A collection of essays about the theory and practice of Native American lexicography, http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/r_FOR03100/p_1/Native_American_Languages
Native-American Fonts List of native american languages, and some related font links. And also for these native american languages Caddoan, Chippewa (Ojibway and Otchipwe), http://jeff.cs.mcgill.ca/~luc/native.html
Extractions: Acolina Small rune font archive. Has, for example, from Ecological Linguistics, their Maya glyph fonts DaysBF, DaysCodBold, DaysCodBoldItalic, DaysCodItalic, DaysCod, all made in 1994. From the American Philological Association, Jeffrey Rusten's Greek font Athenian (1991). Also, the Maya glyph fonts Abaj, AbajBold, TunBold, Tun, Wuuj, WuujBold, WuujBoldItalic, WuujItalic.
Indigenous Language Links Endangered native american languages What Is to Be Done, and Why? native american language Immersion Innovative Native Education for Children http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/links.html
Languagehat.com: NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES. native american languageS. The useful Native Languages of the Americas site compiles as many links as they can find. We are a small nonprofit organization http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001622.php
Extractions: Main The useful Native Languages of the Americas site compiles as many links as they can find: We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology. Our website is not beautiful. Probably, it never will be. But this site has inner beauty, for it is, or will be, a compendium of online materials about more than 800 indigenous languages of the Western Hemisphere and the people that speak them. I'm particularly taken with their faq page , linked on the front page from the question "Why aren't there any links about how American Indian languages are descended from Ancient Egyptian?" Their discussion of this issue includes a very good chart explaining how languages are grouped into families and the role of coincidence: As you can probably see even from this small amount of data, English is related to Dutch and German; Hebrew is related to Arabic and Maltese; and Ojibwe is related to Algonquin and Cree. On the other hand, if I had taken only the English word "seven" and the Hebrew word "sheva," maybe I could have convinced you English was related to Hebrew. And if I had shown you only Hebrew "shalosh" and Arabic "thalatha," you might not have noticed they were related. (Via plep Posted by languagehat at November 2, 2004 03:47 PM
Map Of Native American Language Groups Map of native american language Groups. Most of the several hundred languages spoken by North American native peoples on the eve of European colonization http://www.csulb.edu/depts/history/default/ugrad/pflegerS01/images/AmIndLanguage
Heritage Language Journal Motivations for native american language Renewal and Heritage Language Transfer. Maintaining native american languages is considered by many tribes to be an http://www.international.ucla.edu/lrc/hlj/article.asp?parentID=3904
Extractions: Feedback Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent. have become extinct, but many of them are still in use today. The classification "Native American languages" is geographical rather than linguistic, since those languages do not belong to a single linguistic family, or stock, as the Indo-European or Afroasiatic languages do. There is no part of the world with as many distinctly different native languages as the Western Hemisphere. Because the number of indigenous American tongues is so large, it is convenient to discuss them under three geographical divisions: North America (excluding Mexico), Mexico and Central America, and South America and the West Indies. It is not possible to determine exactly how many languages were spoken in the New World before the arrival of Europeans or how many people spoke these languages. Some scholars estimate that the Western Hemisphere at the time of the first European contact was inhabited by 40 million people who spoke 1,800 different tongues. Another widely accepted estimate suggests that at the time of Columbus more than 15 million speakers throughout the Western Hemisphere used more than 2,000 languages; the geographic divisions within that estimate are 300 separate tongues native to some 1.5 million Native Americans N of Mexico, 300 different languages spoken by roughly 5 million people in Mexico and Central America, and more than 1,400 distinct tongues used by 9 million Native Americans in South America and the West Indies.
Extractions: Wisconsin Lesson Plans Celebrate Native American Cultures Fourth grade lesson plan prepared by Sue Hollenbeck (De Soto Area School District), Liz Sullivan (Sparta Area School District), and Ann Scheckel (Tomah Area School District) Day 1 History Day 2 Archaeology Day 3 Archaeology Techniques Day 4 Language and Names Day 5 Storytelling Day 6 Celebrate Native American Cultures Bibliography Wisconsin Lesson Plans Investigating Wisconsin History Exploring Wisconsin Our Home ... Wisconsin Powwow Day 1 : History Objectives Materials KWL chart CD-ROM Wisconsin: Celebrating People, Place and Past World Wide Web map sites:
NATIVE NASHVILLE - Tennessee's Resource For Native American History, Culture, Ne Extensive Tennessee native american Indian information source. Includes news, history, culture, current issues, native american business and organizations directories, FAQ on Indians, events calendar, language learning resources, and sacred site preservation. http://www.nativenashville.com/
Extractions: Welcome to Native Nashville! Clee's Ferry Anniversary February 5, 2005 marks the 10th anniversary of the placement of Clee's Ferry on the Tennessee Archaeological Registry. Clee's Ferry is the site of an ancient Native American burial ground on the Cumberland River in Nashville. This sacred place was heavily looted until members of the Alliance for Native American Indian Rights camped out on the site in January of 1995, holding a vigil and demanding the site be placed on the Registry, which would allow the state to post signs warning against artifact theft and grave desecration. Two weeks later the site was finally added to the Registry, and the next morning, February 6, 1995, Nick Fielder, the state Archaeologist, personally erected steel signposts and posted the warning signs. In honor of this event, we would like to direct your attention to our
Extractions: Well, to understand the terms "revival" and "revitalization," first you have to understand the current state of these languages. Linguists have a variety of grim-sounding terms for languages with few or no native speakers. A language which has no native speakers (people who grew up speaking the language as a child) is called "dead" or "extinct." A language which has no native speakers in the youngest generation is called "moribund." A language which has very few native speakers is called "endangered" or "imperilled." Language revival and language revitalization are attempts to preserve endangered languages, and that is precisely what our website project is about. Of the 800+ Amerindian languages, five hundred are endangered or worse. Most of the others are in Central and South America in North America only Navajo usage is increasing, and even the relatively "healthy" languages like Cherokeespoken by 22,000 peopleare threatened by low percentages of children learning the languages.
Extractions: Welcome to Fyrelight Books and Gifts. We hope you will enjoy our selection of Cherokee genealogy books Cherokee language books handmade moccasins pow wow regalia patterns, general Native American books and Native American music Keep checking back as we are adding many regional genealogy resources , focusing mainly on the South East and Texas. Flash by Wyld Woods Design
American Indian Resources Index A Note on native american Resource Selection and Information Evaluation. General; american Indian Schools, Colleges and Universities; language and http://cobalt.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/naindex.html
Native Shop american Indian crafts and Dakota language books and tapes from a nonprofit Yankton Sioux women's center. http://www.nativeshop.org/
Extractions: Native Shop is a project of the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. We are marketing products as an economic development project to raise funds for the resource center's programs. Native Shop Products and How to Place an Ord er About the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center Action Alerts and Program Updates ...
Gulf Coast Cherokees And Associated Bands A nonprofit native american cultural organization whose members are dedicated to the study and education of both the public and members of their cultural native american heritage, crafts, genealogy, history, language, arts, and customs. http://people.txucom.net/spirtwnd/
Extractions: Chief - Dan Crosby P.O. Box 1619 New Caney, Texas 77357 T exas Gulf Coast Cherokees and Associated Bands is a nonprofit Native American cultural organization whose members are dedicated to the study and education of both the public and members of their cultural Native American heritage, crafts, genealogy, history, language, arts, and customs. We have a structural council patterned after the original seven clans as it once existed. Our members are of Cherokee and other tribal ancestral backgrounds. We are active in the Native American community and have close ties to the Western Cherokee nation politically and through the sale of crafts made by Cherokees of Oklahoma in our Craft Store. We have an Elders Society, A Women's Society and a Warriors Society, all of which actively function in developing and preserving our culture. Membership is limited to those whose names are on existing Indian rolls, although it is not necessary to have documented it. We are not interested in either State or Federal recognition, but actively seek a place to have a Native American Cultural Center one day where all Native Americans can gather in Texas to further the study of our Native American Culture as aforementioned.
Louisiana Indian History History of language, archeology, events and other background information on native american nations in Louisiana. http://www.eatel.net/~wahya/
Extractions: "So tractable, so peaceable, are these people, that I swear to your Majesties there is not in the world a better nation. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile; though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." "...una gente in Dios" (A people one in God, InDios, Indians.) Christopher Columbus, writing to the King and Queen of Spain, 1492.