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400 Years of Linguistic Contact Between the Mi'kmaq and the English and the Interchange of Two World Views
Stephanie Inglis Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2004, pp. 389-402. Presents a comparison of world views between the Mi'kmaq and the English colonists in Acadia based on linguistic contact and interchange. More information... (Rating: 3.44, Votes: 16, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Actes Du Trente-Septième Congrès des Algonquinistes / Papers of the Thirty-Eighth Algonquian Conference
Stephane Goyette The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2008, pp. 218-220. General critique of the thirty-eight papers found in the proceedings. Scroll to page 218 for critique. More information... (Rating: 3.50, Votes: 20, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Algonkin Manitou
William Jones Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 18, No. 70, July-September 1905, pp. 183-190. Concise definition of the word Manitou derived from documentation about the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo. More information... (Rating: 3.04, Votes: 23, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Assessing Anishinaabe Children's Narratives: An Ethnographic Exploration of Elders' Perspectives
Sharla Peltier Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, Vol. 38, No. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada: Part 2, Summer, 2014, pp. 174-193. "This paper reports on an ethnographic research project conducted to explore the narrative skills of a group of eight Anishinaabe children." More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Baraga
Graham A. MacDonald The Beaver, Vol. 74, No. 5, October-November 1994, pp. 4-?. Profiles the life and role played by Frederic Baraga, a Catholic missionary among North American Indigenous peoples in the early 1800s. More information... (Rating: 3.12, Votes: 24, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bilingual Curriculum Among the Northern Arapaho: Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Performance
Andrew Cowell American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1, Winter, January 1, 2002, pp. 24-44. Negative impact of education based on the written word as opposed to oral cultural traditions. More information... (Rating: 4.23, Votes: 13, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Blackfoot Mythology
John Maclean Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 6, No. 22, July-September 1893, pp. 165-172. Describes legends told by Elders, including the creation story, origin of the wind, the Old Man, and the story of Kutoyis, the blood-clot boy. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Bring Back Our Lost Language
Strong Woman, Moondancer American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, Special Issue on Reservation Economies, 1998, pp. 215-222. Examines how the ancient language of the Wampanoag, an Algonquian language that today is called Massachusett, was lost. More information... (Rating: 4.44, Votes: 9, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Challenging "Extinction" through Modern Miami Language Practices
Wesley Y. Leonard American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2011, pp. 135-160. Discusses how the myaamia language continues to exist in the repertoire of the Miami people, and discusses how linguistic practices have made the language different than in the past. More information... (Rating: 2.69, Votes: 13, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Chief Dull Knife Community is Strengthening the Northern Cheyenne Language and Culture
Richard E. Littlebear (Ve'kesôhnestoohe) Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 42, No. 1, Celebrating Tribal Colleges and Universities American Indian Higher Education Consortium, 2003, pp. 75-84. Looks at the danger of extinction of Native American languages and the programs in place to curb this fate. More information... (Rating: 1.80, Votes: 25, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Christianity, Missionaries and Plains Cree Politics, 1850s-1870s
Tolly Bradford Manitoba History, No. 83, Spring, 2017, pp. 2-13. Argues that in the years preceding Treaty Six, there were significant divisions between Cree leaders about the value of missionaries. More information... (Rating: 2.50, Votes: 4, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Code Switching and Language Leveling: Use of Multiple Codes in a Severn Ojibwe Community
Lisa Philips Valentine International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 60, No. 4, October 1994, pp. 315-341. Discussion of alternation between two or more languages, or dialects, in a single conversation. More information... (Rating: 4.23, Votes: 13, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Conceptual Accessibility and Sentence Production in a Free Word Order Language (Odawa)
Kiel Christianson, Fernanda Ferreira Cognition, Vol. 98, No. 2, December 2005, pp. 105-135. Reports results of study of the linguistic characteristics of the Odawa or Ottawa language. More information... (Rating: 3.18, Votes: 11, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Contributions to Algonquian Grammar
Truman Michelson American Anthropologist, Vol. 15, No. 3, New Series, July 1913, pp. 470-476. Examines the Fox language within the general context of Algonkian grammar. More information... (Rating: 4.38, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Creating Language Teams in Oklahoma Native American Communities
Mary Linn, Marcellino Berardo, Akira Y. Yamamoto International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 132, 1998, pp. 61-78. Presents an account of what most elderly speakers of Oklahoma Native American languages feel about their languages and the issues and problems of designing programs for language revitalization. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cree Asikan 'Sock': Menominee Asekan 'Blade of Grass'
International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 64, No. 4, October 1998, p. 394. Explores the etymology of the words "asikan" and "asekan". More information... (Rating: 2.86, Votes: 14, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Cross-Linguistic Quantification: Definite Articles vs Demonstratives
Danielle Cyr Language Sciences, Vol. 15, No. 3, July 1993, pp. 195-229. Investigates Montagnais, an Eastern Algonquian language, use of demonstrative markers and argues they should be classified as definite articles. More information... (Rating: 4.29, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Culture Change Among the Northern Ojibwa
Jack Steinbring Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, No. 21, Series 3, 1964-1965, p. [?]. Discusses the impact of Western civilization on Aboriginal peoples in the Lake Winnipeg area. More information... (Rating: 3.53, Votes: 17, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Debwewin Journey: A Methodology and Model of Knowing
Lynn Gehl (Gii-Zhigaate-Mindoo-Kwe) AlterNative, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2012, pp. 53-65. Looks at a Anishinaabe methodology, involving "circle of the heart" and "circle of the mind" knowledge, used for dissertation research. More information... (Rating: 2.00, Votes: 5, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Destruction of a Language and Culture: A Personal Story
Eileen Clearsky Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, Vol. 5, No. 4, Professional Development in a Time of Mass Migration, 2011, pp. 260-265. Author describes her personal experience with the intergenerational impact of residential schools, as well as the efforts being made by the Siksika Nation to revive their heritage. More information... (Rating: 0.00, Votes: 0, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Development of Ojibway Language Materials
Shirley Pheasant-Williams Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 27, No. 1, Advancing Aboriginal Language and Literacy, 2003, pp. 79-83. Discusses the development of language materials for Aboriginal teachers and their students and research that has been done in this area. More information... (Rating: 3.75, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects
J. Dyneley Prince American Anthropologist, Vol. 4, No. 1, New Series, January-March 1902, pp. 17-32. Analysis of the similarities and differences in variations of Algonkin spoken by these two groups in Maine and Quebec. More information... (Rating: 3.21, Votes: 14, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
East Cree Relational Verbs top
Marie-Odile Junker International Journal of American Linguistics, Vol. 69, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 307-329. Examines the syntax and semantics of this verb construction and the problems associated with it. More information... (Rating: 5.00, Votes: 1, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
First Nations English Dialects in Canada: Implications for Speech-Language Pathology
Jessica Ball, B. May Bernhardt Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, Vol. 22, No. 8, August 2008, pp. 570-588. Paper makes initial recommendations about directions for research and clinical practice. More information... (Rating: 4.38, Votes: 8, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites
Focus, Obviation, and Word Order in East Cree
Marie-Odile Junker Lingua, Vol. 114, No. 3, March 2004, pp. 345-365. Presents new data from fieldwork on East James Bay Cree. More information... (Rating: 4.29, Votes: 7, Reviews: 0) Reviews | Rate It | Add to Favourites |
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