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 ...

No one knows what language was uttered by the first people to lay eyes upon the majestic river we call the Susquehanna. What we know about the languages of the Susquehanna’s early inhabitants comes ...

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 ...

“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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Note by Truman Michelson consisting of a bibliographic citation for an R.G. Latham article that identifies Arapaho as an Algonquian language.

When Stephanie Fielding speaks about languages, she likens them to living entities that must be carefully preserved. Fielding, who is the great-great-great niece of Fidelia Fielding, the last fluent ...

The saga of the first Thanksgiving at Plymouth Rock has been told, for the most part, in just one language: English. The voices of the Native Americans who were there—speaking in their own ...

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 ...