"No General Use Can Ever Be Make of the Wrecks of My Loss": A Reconsidered History of the Indian Vocabularies Collected on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Megan Snyder-Camp
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall, 2015, pp. 129-139
Description
Presents evidence, contrary to commonly held belief, that the collection of 280 word keys to at least 23 languages was not stolen and thrown overboard into the James River.
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Non-Standard English Dialects and the Effect of Supplementary Funding on Educational Achievement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michele Battisti
Mark Campbell
Jane Friesen
Brian Krauth
Canadian Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, vol. 35, no. 2, Service Delivery to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis in Canada: Part 1, Summer, 2011, pp. 190-197
Description
Study found that additional funding substantially improved the reading levels of the average Aboriginal student.
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[Nooksack Place Names. Part 1]

Alternate Title
At the Edge of Canada: Indigenous Research
Nooksack Place Names: Geography, Culture, and Language
Media » Sound Recordings
Author/Creator
Allan Richardson
Brent Galloway
Robert-Falcon Ouellette
Description
Interview with the authors of a book about the language, culture and history of the Nooksack indigenous people. Duration: 30:20. Access part II.
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[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
Description
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.
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North American Indigenous Women and Cultural Domination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beatrice Medicine
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, Special Issue on Encounter of Two Worlds: The Next Five Hundred Years, 1993, pp. 121-130
Description
While others celebrate the 'discovery' of the New World, the 1.5 million Aboriginal peoples in the United States will celebrate their survival against centuries of genocide, legal restrictions on religion and language and other oppressive measures.
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Northern Canada

Documents & Presentations
Description
1 file containing: An Introduction to the Geography of the Canadian Arctic. Chapter VI, Pages 75-86, discusses the way of life of the Canadian Inuit including: population and distribution; social organization; hunting and fishing; language, art and religion; and regional groups. -"The Awakening North", an excerpt from the annual report of Seagrams Ltd. including a portfolio of pictures of the north, several of which are of Inuit peoples.
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The Northern Paiute Language of Oregon

Alternate Title
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Memorial Volume
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.20
E-Books
Author/Creator
W. L. Marsden
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 20 (pp175-191).
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The Northwest Coast

Alternate Title
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter H. Stephenson
Steven Acheson
Description
Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.
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Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples

E-Books
Author/Creator
Andrew J. Siggner
Carole Lévesque
Eric Guimond
Mary Jane Norris
Paul S. Martin ... Terry Wotherspoon
Evelyn J. Peters ... [et al.]
Description
Collection of papers from the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference addressing some issues and needs faced by communities in urban areas.
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Note on Education System and Erosion of Orality: An Eastern Arctic Example

Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Anne S. Douglas
Description
Comments on the value oral practices have in maintaining Inuit culture and language. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conferenceedited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
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A Note on the Derivation of the Word "Eskimo" (Inuit)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Thalbitzer
American Anthropologist, vol. 52, no. 4, New Series, October-December 1950, p. 564
Description
Letter argues that the word derives from Excomminqui or "excommunicated ones", and is a name given by 17th century Jesuits who assessed the people of the Labrador coast as "hostile and pagan.".
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Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.40, no.2
E-Books
Author/Creator
Omer C. Stewart
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaelogy and Ethnology, vol. 40, (pp29-62).
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Notes on Some Queensland Languages

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Luise Hercus
Aboriginal History, vol. 15, no. 2, 1991, pp. 179-180
Description
Book review of: Notes on Some Queensland Languages by Nils M. Holmer. Review located by scrolling to page 179.
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Notes on the Historical Source Material in the Ayer Collection on the North American Indian Presented by Edward E. Ayer to the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
The Newberry Library
Description
Notes on the Edward E. Ayer collection, located in The Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois.

Historical note:

"In 1911 Edward E. Ayer, a Chicago businessman, presented to The Newberry Library his collection of historical source material relating chiefly to the discovery, exploration and colonization of North America and to the native races of North America, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippine Islands. It contains at present about 49,000 volumes, bound pamphlets, manuscripts, documents and other accessioned pieces."
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Notes on the Snanaimuq

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Franz Boas
American Anthropologist, vol. 2, no. 4, October 1889, pp. 321-328
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Number Systems of the North American Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
W. C. Eells
American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 20, no. 9, November 1913, pp. 263-272
Description
Examination of over 324 Indigenous language counting methods.
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Nunavut Fact Sheets [February 2018]

Alternate Title
Nunavut Community Fact Sheets
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Nunavut Bureau of Statistics
Description
Data Sources: Statistics Canada (2011 NHS, 2016 Census, Income Statistics Division and Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics), Nunavut Department of Education, Nunavut Department of Health, Nunavut Bureau of Statistics.
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Nurturing Native Languages

Alternate Title
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium ; 8th, 2001
E-Books
Author/Creator
Jon Reyhner
Angayuquq Oscar Kawagley
Gary Owens
Lizette Peter
Ella Christie ... [et al.]
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Nuu-Chah-Nulth

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council
Description
Website has links to the tribal council business, language instruction, and cultural stories videos and narratives.
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O Tatou Ō Aga'i i Fea?/ `Oku Tau Ō Ki Fe?/Where are We Heading?: Pacific Languages in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Alternate Title
Where Are We Heading?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John McCaffery
Judy Taligalu McFall–McCaffery
AlterNative, vol. 6, no. 2, Ngaahi Lea a e Kakai Pasifika: Endangered Pacific Languages and Cultures, 2010, pp. 86-121
Description
Discusses the health of the four Polynesian Pasifika languages from the researchers and writers perspective.
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On Leaking Languages and Categorical Imperatives

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Philip J. Deloria
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 35, no. 2, 2011, pp. 173-182
Description
Looks at American Indian linguistic practices and the complexity of linguistic engagements that stand in contrast to those non-Indian imaginings.
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