Systems: Writing, Signing

Project looks at American Indian elementary school children to see what elements are needed to influence language learning. Shows the importance of teaching in a way that is compatible with the learning style of the home culture.

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.

Provides a list of fish names used in several communities to identify species correctly and compare to names used by Western science.

Presents approximately 175 gif (graphics interchange format) animations illustrating hand-signs for nouns, verbs intransitive animate, and verbs transitive inanimate.

Book review of: Cree: Language of the Plains/nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pikiskwēwin by Jean Okimāsis and Solomon Ratt.

Looks at the appearance and development of a picture text and its use to date for a variety of things from church hymns to shopping lists.

Looks at the use of pictographs as a way of recording one outstanding event effecting the whole tribe or a personal incident.

Author examines some of the projects currently under way in libraries which respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action; discusses possible first steps for cataloguers to add Indigenous Syllabics to records for Cree and Inuit Materials.

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, (pp297-398).

Curriculum Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1985.

Describes the need for a new approach to learning Indigenous languages in the classroom, arguing that programs should emphasize both written and the contemporary local usage of the language.

Information Systems project towards (M.Sc.)--Athabasca University, 2007.

Examines cards importance as a historical record and as a representation of Aboriginal language by an Aboriginal person.

Chemistry Thesis (Ph.D.)-- Texas A & M University, 1994.

Groups raise money to purchase Cree syllabic font for use in publishing service booklets in that language.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Laval University, 2010. Text in French, includes abstract in English.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2001.

Presents a bilingual lexicon including an ethnographical memoranda about Indigenous peoples of Alaska and Siberia.

Linguistics Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University, 1999.

Compares the names and naming processes of different “White” Indigenous peoples in “Britain,” and challenges the assumptions of a cultural homogeneity, among the original peoples of Britain.

Provides list with English and scientific name, and Inuit name collected at Chesterfield and where different at Baker Lake (B) as well as explanatory comments.

Non-Aboriginal teacher reflects on own experiences with Indigenous oral tradition on methods to teach writing.

Qualitative study uses semi structured interviews in the North Sami language; content was transcribed and analyzed. Data indicates that many Sami people are not culturally safe within mainstream health-care systems and need medical practitioners to engage in culturally safe practices.

1981 viewpoint on the Inuit language situation, reasons for linguistic assimilation, and possible influences on the way Inuktitut has changed over time.

Article "examines the role of writer David Cusick as one of the first Iroquois to record the oral literature of his nation in the alphabetic writing of Western civilization," particularly his allusions to the Bible.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell On the Evolution of Language by J. W. Powell Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians by J. W. Powell Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society by J. W. Powell On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data by J. W. Powell A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians by Dr. H. C. Yarrow Studies in Central American Picture-Writing by Edward S.

Mainly focusing on British Columbia languages, site supports language archiving, teaching and revitalization. Within each language there are links to alphabets, text and audio of words, phrases, and songs, stories with English translations, and games. Over 30 languages represented.

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

Looks at autobiographies from four different categories of fluent speakers.

Includes some photographs, illustrations and details of belts.

Report includes the following papers: Report of the Director by J. W. Powell Pictographs of the North American Indians by Garrick Mallery Pottery of the Ancient Pueblos by William H. Holmes Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley by William H. Holmes Origin and Development of Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art by William H. Holmes A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture-Growth by Frank Hamilton Cushing

Interview with Lee Maracle, the author of Booby Lee: Indian Rebel, Daughters are Forever and Ravensong.

Discusses the need for a standardized writing system to help preserve the Inuktitut language.

Article in Anishinaabemowin; discusses statements made by the Sweetgrass First Nations Language Council on the cultural content of the of the language.

Designed to teach reading, writing and speaking Ojibwe. Consists of five introductory lessons followed by increasingly complex ones which build on each other.

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

[Linguistics] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rice University, 2010.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1963.

Linguistics Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1964.

"From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 ..."

Author examines the different forms that literature takes in na Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian people) culture. Discusses the early publication of newspapers and novels and the literature and story carried in the hula, a traditional dance.

Presents a letter, protesting the nonrenewal of Morris Swadesh's contract by the City College of New York in 1949, signed by the chief of the Mowachat band. Morris Swadesh, who taught people how to write their language (Nuu-chah-nulth or Nootka), was much appreciated by the Aht people, thus his nonrenewal caused great concern.

Describes how differences arose between two different dialects of the Inuit language.

Curriculum and Teacher Education Thesis (Ed.D)--Stanford University, 1984.

Discusses collection focusing on an unidentified St. Francis Mission winter count.

Describes the efforts to implement a standardized Inuktitut writing system.