Salishan

Displaying 1 - 50 of 74

Aboriginal Languages of Canada

Alternate Title
Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Eung-Do Cook
Darin Flynn
Discusses Canada's First Nations nine language families, the separate language family of the Inuit and the mixed language of the Métis. Chapter nine from Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: An Introduction by William O'Grady, John Archibald.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

A Bibliography of Salish Linguistics

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jan P. van Eijk
Northwest Journal of Linguistics, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008, pp. 1-128
Books and articles dealing with the description and analysis of Salish languages.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Chinook Texts

Alternate Title
Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; [20]
E-Books
Author/Creator
Charles Cultee
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Coastal and Interior Salish Power Concepts: A Structural Comparison

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William W. Elmendorf
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 1977, pp. 64-75
Compares aboriginal belief and ritual systems among Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest who speak languages that belong to the Salish linguistic family.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Color-Category Evolution and Shuswap Yellow-with-Green

Alternate Title
Colour Category Evolution and Shuswap Yellow with Green
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert E. MacLaury
American Anthropologist, vol. 89, no. 1, New Series, March 1987, pp. 107-124
Use of one term to describe two different colours is rare, except in Indigenous languages of the Pacific Northwest; author examines possible explanations for the phenomenon.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Ethnological Survey of Canada -- Report of the Committee consisting of ... [1899]

Alternate Title
Appendix II: Studies of the Indians of British Columbia
Notes on the N'tlaka'pamuQ of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America
Notes on the Nlaka'pamux of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America
Report - 1899 on the Ethnological Survey of Canada
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
[Charles Hill-Tout]
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

First Peoples' Map of B.C.

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC)
Website contains index of languages, First Nations and brief biographies of community leaders. Includes audio links to key phrases in various languages.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1927-1928

E-Books
Author/Creator
H. W. Dorsey
Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief Clerk by H. W. Dorsey The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians, British Columbia by James A. Teit, edited by Franz Boas Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia by Elsie Viault Steedman The Osage Tribe: Rite of the Wa-xo'-be by Francis La Flesche
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Halq'eméylem Language Revitalization: Walking in Both Worlds

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Margaret MacDonald
Native Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2009, pp. 51-67
Looks at the Halq'eméylem language renewal, community challenges and strengths of the Stó:lō and the programs available to the preservation of the language.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

"The Importance of a Rose": Evaluating the Cultural Significance of Plants in Thompson and Lillooet Interior Salish

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nancy J. Turner
American Anthropologist, vol. 90, no. 2, New Series, June 1988, pp. 272-290
Using ethnobotanical data gathered from two groups in British Columbia, an index was developed to measure the cultural significance a given plant taxon. Discusses importance of such knowledge to the language.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Indigenous Words Colouring Pages

Alternate Title
Indigenous Words Coloring Pages
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
National Arts Centre

Links to pages for Sylix, Salteaux, Anishinabemowin (Algonquin), Cree, and Inuktitut languages, and Every Child Matters.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Klallam Dictionary

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Suzanne Urbanczyk
BC Studies, no. 185, Barkerville, Spring, 2015, pp. 198-199
Book review of Klallam Dictionary by Timothy Montler. Entire book review section on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 198.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

The Language Gulper: Native North American Languages

Web Sites » Personal
Author/Creator
Alejandro Gutman
Beatriz Avanzati
Webpage provides an overview of North American, Meso-American and South American languages spoken in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Links to main language families, language areas and language maps.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Language, Violence, and Indian Mis-education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Caskey Russell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 26, no. 4, 2002, pp. 97-112
Examines the strength of the interrelationship among way of life, belief systems and language and the wide ranging effect loss of Tlingit will have in southeast Alaska.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

ȽÁU,WELṈEW̱

Alternate Title
LAUWELNEW, the Saanich Peoples' Story of the Great Flood: Lesson Plan
LAUWELNEW
E-Books
Author/Creator
Earl Claxton

WSANEC (Saanich) great flood story. Text in a mixture of English and SENĆOŦEN.

Related material: Lesson Plan by Shauna White and Kathryn Godfrey appropriate for Grade 6 language arts/ social studies.

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Musqueam Reference Grammar

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dorothy Kennedy
BC Studies, no. 149, Spring, 2006, pp. 91-94
Book review of: Musqueam Reference Grammar by Wayne Suttles. To access this review, scroll to page 91.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

New Indian Sketches

E-Books
Author/Creator
[Pierre-Jean] de Smet
Includes the life of Louise Sighouin, a short catechism, and vocabulary of the Skalzi or Koetenay language.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

[Nooksack Place Names. Part II]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Allan Richardson
Brent Galloway
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Interview with the authors of a book, Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture and Language researched over 35 years, about the language, culture and history of the Nooksack indigenous people . Duration: 38:30. Access part I.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Noun Reduplication in Comox, a Salish Language of Vancouver Island

Alternate Title
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada) ; 63
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada). Anthropological Series ; no. 6
E-Books
Author/Creator
Edward Sapir
Memoir (Geological Survey of Canada)

Original issued in series: Memoir 63. Anthropological series / Geological Survey of Canada ; no. 6

Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Rekindling the Flutes of Fire: Why Indigenous Languages Matter to Humanity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew C. Bronson
ReVision, vol. 25, no. 2, Fall, 2002, pp. 5-11
Discusses the sacred connection between language, land and people, how language revitalization addresses spiritual needs and, argues that the loss of language represents loss of a unique way of organizing experiences.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.

Remarks on Proto-Salish Subject Inflection

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry Davis
International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 66, no. 4, October 2000, pp. 499-520
Argues that in a number of languages, from both branches of Salish, there is evidence of two simultaneously occupied subject positions in transitive verb clauses.
Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Subscribe to Salishan