Siouan

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.

Examines historical and ethnographic evidence concerning the origins of this Siouan people and their cultural adaptations.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2001.

Compares the similarities and speculates on the split between the Assinboine and the Yanktonai Sioux.

Comments on a business, called Tipi Tones, started by a group of high school students which features distinct Aboriginal ring tones for cell phones. Article located by scrolling to page 18.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Montana State University, Bozeman, 1997.

Book review of: The Assiniboine by Edwin Thompson Denig (1812-1858), edited by J. N. B. Hewitt, with a new introduction and index by David R. Miller. Originally published as Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1928-1929.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 2003.

Article profiles two Elders, Lorraine Greybear and Vernon Lambert, who are teaching Dakota language and culture to students at Cankdeska Cikana Community College.

Provides a pronunciation guide, reasons for adoption of specific symbols and writing conventions, and examples.

Language, Reading and Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1995.

Examines the ethnic, linguistic, territorial, cultural and societal aspects of each group and the alliances, intermarriage and fused identities among groups.

A study of the four principal Dakota dialects, the Santee, Yankton, Assinniboin and Titon and of the allied languages, Winnegago, Osage, Hidatsa, etc.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1991.

Five papers describe the Akira Language Project implemented at White Shield School in North Dakota, Nakoda Language Program at Fort Belknap College in Montana and the development of tools for computer language documentation at the American Indian Studies Research Institute. Excerpt from Revitalizing Indigenous Languages edited by John Reyhner, Gina Cantoni, Robert N. St. Clair, and Evangeline Parsons.

Describes the College and its role in the education of First Nations and Métis with the intention that they would minister to other First Nations and Métis within the Diocese of Saskatchewan. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 81.

Education Thesis (D.Ed.)--Fielding Graduate University, 2005.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Regina, 1997.

Book review of: English-Lakota Dictionary by Bruce Ingham.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri by Edwin Thompson Denig, edited by J. N. B. Hewitt

American Indian Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2013.

Book review of: George Sword's Warrior Narratives by Delphine Red Shirt.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinios at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2005.

Focuses on oral traditions within families and presents a story of a Dakota family's struggles during their removal following the 1862 United States Dakota Conflict in Minnesota.

Book review of: Greet the Dawn written and illustrated by S. D. Nelson. Review located by scrolling to page 181.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1958.

Discusses the attempts to obliterate the Lakotah language and the importance of preserving it as part of the culture.

A paper read at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Montreal, in August, 1882. Reprinted from the American Antiquarian for January and April, 1883.

Translation of nine place names.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997.

Study findings suggest it may be beneficial to teach children mathematical concepts in these languages because they express numbers in terms of base 10.

Comments on a student production, Wojapi, a show inspired by Sesame Street, which features Lakota words and promotes Lakota language, culture and values.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1976.

Comments on a language preservation project created by a man who wanted to keep histories, stories and genealogies recorded for generations to come.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado, 2010.

Presents the postpositions of the Lakota language.

Features a searchable database of winter count images and interviews. Accompanied by a Teachers' Guide.

Using his own studies and struggle to learn the Dakota language as jumping-off point, the author wrestles with the role that historic educational institutions had in removing Indigenous languages and to what extent their contemporary counterparts owe apology and reparation.

English Thesis (M.A.) Tarleton State University, 1997.

Explores how language and thought processes affect learning mathematical concepts and suggests ways to facilitate learning by those whose first language is not English.

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.

Presents a personal narrative, written by a student of Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College, describing her loss of speaking the Lakota language.

Brief profile and interview with a sacred pipe carrier and singer of the Lakota/Dakota and the historical and cultural sacred traditions of Peyotism.

Approaches the Winnebago Trickster figure from a broader, humanist view rather than the usual rigid academic disciplines analysis.

Global Indigenous Nations Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2009.