Native American Languages category: 44 books

The Annals of the Cakchiquels The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS PREFACE, INTRODUCTION, Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels, Culture of the Cakchiquels, The...

The Wyandot were born of two Wendat peoples encountered by the French in the first half of the seventeenth century—the otherwise named Petun and Huron—and their history is fragmented by their dispersal between Quebec, Michigan, Kansas, and Oklahoma. This book weaves these fragmented histories...

This edition features • map • a linked Table of Contents and Index

The Blackfoot Dictionary is a comprehensive guide to the vocabulary of Blackfoot, an Algonquian language spoken by thousands in Alberta and Montana. This third edition of the critically acclaimed dictionary adds more than 1,100 new entries, major additions to verb stems, and the inclusion of vai,...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS Tableau des Bacab Plate 43 of the Borgian Codex Plate 44 of the Fejervary Codex Symbols of the cardinal points ILLUSTRATIONS. Plate I. — Fac-simile of the Tableau des Bacab II. — The Tableau...

This edition features • illustrations • linked contents lists CONTENTS Mollusca: Fasciolaria gigantea, Oliva. Insecta: Honey bee (Melipona). Insecta and Myriapoda. Arachnoidea, Arachnida, Crustacea. Myriapoda, Pisces. Pisces. Amphibia. Amphibia, Reptilia. Reptilia: Rattlesnake (Crotalus). Reptilia:...

The Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861-1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867. It preserves words and concepts that have since changed or even disappeared...

Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted...

As part of the larger, ongoing movement throughout Latin America to reclaim non-Hispanic cultural heritages and identities, indigenous writers in Mexico are reappropriating the written word in their ancestral tongues and in Spanish. As a result, the long-marginalized, innermost feelings, needs, and...

Once spoken only in Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala, the Xinkan language family is unique within Mesoamerica, comprising four closely related languages that are unrelated to any of the other language groups used within the region. Descriptions of Xinkan date to 1770 but are typically only sketches or...

Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures to look at. This educational book also makes it easier to communicate with descriptive words to relay drawn messages. Grab a copy of this informative book today!

Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for...

Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana...

This book is concerned primarily with the evidence for the validity of a genetic unit, Amerind, embracing the vast majority of New World languages. The only languages excluded are those belonging to the Na-Dene and Eskimo- Aleut families. It examines the now widely held view that Haida, the most distant...