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.
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
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
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 1, Series 2, Spring, 1999, pp. [2]-16
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Discussion of the historical novel's treatment of the disruption of Salish belief systems and social / family structures due to the impact of Christianity after contact.
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