Athabaskan

Looks at a language revitalization project for five traditional Athabascan languages through planning, training, education, and materials development.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1980.

Promotes a bilingual-bicultural program intended to revitalize native Arizona heritage by including Yavapai language and culture in the curriculum for all students.

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.

Website provides fonts and keyboard layouts covering alphabetical letter for Algonquian, Athapaskan, Inuit, and Cherokee syllabics as well as other languages which use a Roman orthography but require a number of diacritic marks or special characters.

Comments on a course teaching the language and strategies on how to teach in immersion settings. Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.

Describes how the Kaska language was taught at a university-level course in the Yukon by Kaska Elders.

Article examines the Lipan Apache narrative about Coyote which had been recorded and translated by the linguist Harry Hoijer from a telling by Lisandro Mendez. Author examines the content and themes of the text alongside the poetic and narrative devices it uses; situates the text among other Coyote narratives.

Contends that language immersion programs support language and cultural revitalization by allowing students a deeper understanding and fluency.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998.

Comments on Aboriginal tribes in the area and lists Aboriginal names for mammals and birds in Chipewayan and Cree.

Describes the development and use of a bilingual-bicultural program for the White Mountain Apache Tribe on the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona.

Lesson plan for grades 7-8. Rev. ed.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol 3.

[History] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2010

History of anthropological linguistics of Na-Déné language and its relationship and diffusion to other languages.

Argues that Athabaskan, Haida and Tlingit languages derive from a common prototype.

Comments on strategies used by musicians to balance historically rooted values and traditions with modern ones.

Contends that it is possible to conduct successful programs of bilingual instruction, even in communities where the language is declining, but parents and instructors must be firmly committed to the program.

Contains links to: Medal of Honor recipients, Indians in World War II, Navajo code talkers bibliography, fact sheet and dictionary.

Lists alphabet, Navajo word and literal translation of the unbreakable code used during World War II.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Mexico, 2014.

Book review of: Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs by Lucy Moore.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.34 (p.1-179).

Authors explore the advantages, disadvantages, perceptions and cultural implications of of digital language preservation projects, in Northern Canada.

Sources are divided by two areas, "Chipewyan" (Northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, North West Territories) and British Columbia, Alberta, Yukon and Northwest Territories, grouped together. Each area is then divided into a social and cultural section and a language section. Bibliography includes citations from the Hearne Bibliography. The article is current as of 1998.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.

Looks at ways individuals engage with languages.

Focuses on the root-initial /t t^h t'/.

Looks at the changes to the Han economy over the last 150 years from one based solely on hunting, gathering and trapping to a mixed economy. Chapter 25 from International Handbook of Research on Indigenous Entrepreneurship edited by Léo-Paul Dana and Robert B. Anderson. Entire e-book on one pdf. To access chapter, scroll to page 313 or select chapter 25 on side bar.

Linguistic study of Western Apache, an Athabaskan language, which is spoken mainly on the San Carlos and White Mountain Apache reservations.

Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 1990.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2003. Documentation in the dissertation includes narratives by Alfred Caesar, Mary Charlie, Amos Dick, Mida Donnessey, Arthur John, Rose Johnston, Liza Magun, John Martin and others.

Looks at some of the policy questions which arose during the development of a Navajo comprehension test for young children.

Program created to aid Navajo students whose first language is not English and enhance their language, motor, and conceptual skill development.

Problem of Na-Déné complexity in the rescontruction of the ancient proto-Athapaskan language.

Comments on a successful program that returned the Yup'ik language into the classroom.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2004.

Contains links to lists of materials available for Chipewyan, Cree, North and South Slavey, and Tlicho. Each book is keyed for language (single or accompanied by English) and grade level.

Reports on the progress of a dictionary of the Jicarilla Apache language.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v.24 (p.141-367).

Discusses the linguistic evidence of a link between the Athabascan and the Sino-Tibetan people.

Women Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 2000.

Outlines vocabulary from the Slave language.

Book review of: Speaking of Indians by Ella Deloria, introduction by Vine Deloria. Originally published in 1944.