Chapter 12
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Examples and Resources
| Page # | Callout # | Link | Description |
| 254 | 12.1 | http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/ | Endangered Language Project. |
| 256 | 12.2 | http://www.cahokiamounds.org | Cahokia Mounds. |
| 257 | 12.3 | http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html | Indian Removal Act. |
| 257 | 12.4 | http://www.nps.gov/trte/index.htm | Trail of Tears. |
| 258 | 12.5 | www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/language/index.html | US Census information on Native American languages. Recommended pages: "Language Use in the United States: 2011 (ACS)" and "Native North American Languages Spoken at Home in the United States and Puerto Rico: 2006-2010 (ACS)." |
| 258 | 12.6 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRHqWCz3Zw | Video: Into the West-Carlisle School. |
| 259 | 12.7 | http://www.pieganinstitute.org/languageact.html | Native American Languages Act 1990 |
| 259 | 12.8 | http://www.flutopedia.com/img_map/AmericanIndiansMap_CensusBureau_lg.gif | Distribution of Native American tribes in 2000 Census. |
| 260 | 12.9 | a) http://www.sil.org/ b) http://www.unm.edu/~navajo/ c) http://cas.ou.edu/native-american-language-program d) http://www.ais.arizona.edu/ |
Contemporary Native American language programs: a) SIL International b) University of New Mexico, Department of Linguistics c) University of Oklahoma, Department of Anthropology d) University of Arizona |
| 261 | 12.10 | http://www.pislresearch.com | Hand Talk: American Indian Sign Language. |
| 267 | 12.11 | http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/yoda-grammar | Yoda grammar tips. |
| 268 | 12.12 | [Coming soon!] | Native American kinship systems. |
| 269 | 12.13 | http://www.umt.edu/blg/ | Blackfoot Language Group. |
| 272 | 12.14 | http://thelinguists.com/ | The Linguists, a documentary. |
| 272 | 12.15 | http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/life/people/9423-last-monolingual-chickasaw-speaker-dies-in-okla | "Last Monolingual Chickasaw speaker dies in Oklahoma." |
| 272 | 12.16 | http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/coming_to_light_the_edward_s_curtis_story | Coming to Light: The Edward S. Curtis Story. |
| 274 | 12.17 | http://www.choctawnation.com/history/people/code-talkers/code-talkers-of-wwi/ | Choctaw Code Talkers. |
| 274 | 12.18 | http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm | Navajo code talkers. |
| 274 | 12.19 | http://www.navajocodetalkers.org/ | Navajo Hopi Observer. |
| 275 | 12.20 | http://archive.is/oIPCm AND http://www.pieganinstitute.org/ | The Piegan Institute. |
| 275 | 12.21 | http://www.hopifoundation.org/programs | Hopi Foundation. |
| 276 | 12.22 | a) http://www.sequoyahmuseum.org/index.cfm/m/6 b) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saSSlSQwlwg |
a) Sequoyah Museum b) Video: The Cherokee Language, from the North Carolina Language and Life Project |
| 276 | 12.23 | a)http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/23/apple-iphone-cherokee-lan_n_800743.html b) http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/09/27/ |
a) "Apple Teams Up To Use iPhone To Save Cherokee Language" b) "Keeping Language Alive: Cherokee Letters Being Translated for Yale" |
| 277 | 12.24 | http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/04/20/learning-native-language-ojibway-programmer-has-app-148920 | "Learning a Native Language? Ojibway Programmer Has an App For That." |
Flashcards
Suggested Reading
Native American Languages
Bloomfield, L. (1934). Plains Cree texts. New York, NY: Stechert.
Boas, F. (1920). The classification of American languages. American Anthropologist, 22, 367-376.
Boas, F. (2002). Handbook of American Indian languages. Bristol : Thoemmes.
Bright, W. (1984). The classification of North American and Meso-American Indian languages. In W. Bright (Ed.), American Indian linguistics and literature (pp. 3–29). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Bright, W. (Ed.). (1984). American Indian linguistics and literature. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Campbell, L. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Capture, G. H., D. Champagne, & C. Jackson (Eds.). (2007). American Indian nations: Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.
Greenberg, J. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Leap, W. L. (1981). American Indian languages. In C. A. Ferguson & S. B. Heath (Eds.). Language in the U.S.A. (pp. 116-144). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leap, W. L. (1993). American Indian English. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press.
McCarty, T. L. (2010). Native American languages in the U.S.A. In K. Potowski (Ed.), Language diversity in the U.S.A (pp. 47-65). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mithun, M. (1999). The languages of native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Powell, J. W. (1891). Indian linguistic families of America, north of Mexico (Vol. 7). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Powell, John W. (1915). Linguistic families of American Indians north of Mexico by J. W. Powell, revised by members of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology. (Map). Bureau of American Ethnology miscellaneous publication (No. 11). Baltimore: Hoen.
Reyner, J., & Eder, J. (2004). American Indian education: A history. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Sapir, E. (1911). “The problem of noun incorporation in American languages.” American Anthropologist (13): 250–282.
Sapir, E. (1947). “The relation of American Indian linguistics to general linguistics.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (1): 1–4.