Origins & Movement

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2006.

Commentary on origin and historical development and linguistic assimilation of language as a total way of life and symbol of identity for the Métis people.

Discussion of the archaeology and historical First Nation and Inuit population estimates of Labrador.

Compares grassroots Mayan languages revitalization movements in Belize and Guatemala/Mesoamerica; considers the academic and publishing communities’ marginalization of Belize language revitalization efforts and the effects on Kriol and Mopan dialects, and the socioeconomic and geopolitical factors at play in the language landscape of Belize.

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

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, (pp399-472).

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.

Provides details on the names and origins of languages, reasons for variation in nomenclature, and makes suggestions for appropriate usage.

Introduction to the articles in this specially themed issue.

Describes the situation preceding the establishment of the Center, which provides materials dealing with Navajo history, language, and culture.

Second edition, corrected and greatly enlarged.

Describes the evolution of the Inuktitut alphabet from the late 1800s to present.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1965.

Native American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2006.

Book review of: The non-Pama-Nyungan Languages of Northern Australia edited by Nicholas Evans. Review located by scrolling to page 190.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2008.

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.".

Revisites a less well-known published linguistic study, The Discovery of California, in order to educate a diverse audience on the linkage between language and migration.

Comments that while Switzerland and Canada both have more than one official language, only Switzerland acknowledges its minority languages. Entire journal on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 79.

From the Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1871.

[Linguistics] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Connecticut, 2006.

Comments on the two strands that were descendants of New South Wales Pidgin English.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2000.

SICC overview about Denes¶øiné (Dene) migration from the Southwest United States to Northern Canada.

Language and Literature, Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1969.

Book review of: The Papers of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate: Volume Two edited by Ian Clark. Review located by scrolling to page 292.

Examines the status of nine Indigenous languages in South Africa and the attempts to protect and preserve them. Paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Conference 2001 held at the University of Saskatchewan.

Botany Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1973.

Looks at the Nunavut Government's concerns about the loss of distinct dialects of the Inuit language.

Argues that the ancient word nyñnanwi is the origin of other, later deviations.

Discussion of whether the consonantal group *çk differs from *ck.

Linguistic study that provides an understanding of Algonkian society and how it evolved as different groups dispersed geographically.

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

Brief history of the development of the dialect.

Discussion of Sinte Gleska University's groundbreaking role as a leader in tribal-based higher education.

Argues that post-Pleistocene ancestors were in North America before 8000 B.C.

Summary of a 1935 expedition to discover new dialects and languages.

Explores the commonalities and differences among Salishan languages.

Presents a historical overview of linguistic ideas in relation to what is now known as the Weltanschauung (world-view) hypothesis.

Discusses the threat of extinction for many of the world's languages, efforts by linguists to preserve them and reasons why the effort is important.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell The Seri Indians by W. J. McGee Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians by James Mooney

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico by J. W. Powell The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa by W. J. Hoffman The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1966.