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Native American Language Resources

Languages listed alphabetically. Links open up a new browser window. Close new window to return to this page.
Updated June 1, 2010

General:

Native Languages of the Americas
The Endangered Language Fund - Information of efforts to save Native languages of the Americas and around the world.
Shea's Native Place: Native American publications, language, legal resources, history. Updated 3/06
Yamada Language Guide - includes lessons, fonts and software. from University of Oregon. Languages listed alphabetically
Native American Association of Germany - It sounds weird, but these guys actually have a great list of Native American language links from many languages not found here.

Blackfoot

Blackfoot language page Detailed linguistic description of the language; includes bibliography.
Ethnologue on Blackfoot - distribution, classification

Cherokee

Raven'sTsa-La-Gi (Cherokee) Page. Links to Cherokee resources and some language info.
Official Site of the Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Language Lessons - from Cherokees of California, Inc.

Chinook

Tenas Wawa/ The Chinook Jargon (Oregon)
From the White River Valley Journal - Tenas Wawa of the Northwest

Cree

The Cree Syllabary A description and pictures from the fabulous Omniglot site.

Cree Language Course and Information. Cree is a Native language spoken in central and eastern Canada and is one of the most widely used North American Native languages.

Cree & Ojibwe Fonts

Dakota

Talk Dakota! Three online lessons with audio files.
Dakota Language HomePage

Lakota

Lakota Language Consortium - info. on reviving Lakota with language learning materials for purchase
Lakota introductory lesson and vocabulary
Lakota/Sioux phrases and culture at Saint Joseph's

Mohawk

Kanienkehaka Language Page includes words, dictionary sources and other language references for Mohawk Iroquois.
Mohawk Language - sound system and bulletin board
Mohawk Language Standardization Project - Ontario Ministry of Education

Mohican

The Stockbridge Munsee Tribe of Mohican Indians page includes a good-sized Mohican word list with transliterations. Also many excellent Mohican and Algonquin language and culture links.

Mohican Language

Navaho

The Navajo Language from Thinkquest

Navaho Code Talkers How they helped during WWII

Oneida

Oneida Language Tools

Potawatomi

Prairie Band Potawatomi Language Info. on the language and literature, on-line dictionary and links.

Quechua
Quechua is spoken in Peru, Eduador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. The Quechua tribe originally constituted the ruling class of the Incan Empire.

Culture of the Andes's Basic Quechua lessons include vocabulary arranged by category, proverbs, jokes and songs.
Barry Werger's Quechua Language homepage includes online Quechua language lessons.
Quechua links from Pimsleur-Language.com

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