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 ...

When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

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 ...

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 ...

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite ...

"Muh-shay-wah-NUH-toe. Chess-kay-dah-KAY-wak." Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In his house overlooking the silvery Mattaponi River ...

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 ...

An Arapaho camp at the site of Denver, Colorado during the time of the early gold rush, looking towards the site of modern Boulder, Colorado. The 54th Algonquian Conference will be held in Boulder, CO ...

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 ...