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Native American Languages
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 20th Century Warriors: Native American Participation in the United States Military 
 This site documents recent Native American participation in United States military actions. Find a summary of 20th century activity, Medal of Honor winners, and a history of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, who transmitted crucial information by the virtually unbreakable "code" of the Navajo language. Includes a Navajo Code Talker dictionary. From the Naval Historical Center of the Department of the Navy. http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-1.htm Topics: Languages, Native Americans, U.S. Military, World War II Last updated Nov 24, 2004 Aboriginal Canada Portal
Contains "Canadian Aboriginal on-line resources, contacts, information, and government programs and services." Covers economic development, claims and treaties, employment, the environment, health and social services, housing, policing, language, culture, provincial and territorial information, and more. Provides a calendar of events as well as sections for elders, women, and children. Also available in French. http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca/acp/site.nsf/en-frames/index.html Topics: Languages, Native Americans Last updated Jul 29, 2005 Alaskool Central
This site provides "online materials about Alaska Native history, education, languages, and cultures" for "teachers, students, and anyone interested in Alaska's first people." It features articles, stories, maps, biographies, video clips, teaching resources, and more. Searchable, or browsable by topics such as government, land claims, literature, and reindeer herding. From the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska, Anchorage. http://www.alaskool.org Topics: Holidays & Observances, Languages, Native Americans, Social Issues, U.S. History By Place Last updated Aug 25, 2004 Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)
AILLA is a searchable and browsable "archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America." Features "recordings of naturally-occurring discourse in a wide range of genres, including narratives, ceremonies, oratory, conversations, and songs. Many of these recordings are accompanied by transcriptions." Also includes information about the hundreds of indigenous languages. Registration (free) required. Some materials have access restrictions. From the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.ailla.utexas.org/ Topics: Archives, Internet, Languages, Music, Regions of the World Last updated Oct 24, 2005 Chumash Indian Life
The Chumash are a California Native American tribe that can be traced back thousands of years. This site shows the history of the Chumash through a timeline, highlighting food, medicine, myths, games, dances, language, and cave painting. The early Chumash were unique for their invention of the plank canoe and their baskets, tools, and bead making. This site is from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Department, a leading center for Chumash studies, http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/index.htm Topics: California: History, Languages, Native Americans Last updated Nov 6, 2009 J.P. Harrington Database Project
Website for this project whose goal is "to increase access to the linguistic and ethnographic notes on American Indian languages collected by J.P. [John Peabody] Harrington during the first half of the twentieth century. ... Well over half of an estimated 500,000 pages are on California Indian languages." Provides a biography of Harrington, project background, newsletters, and related material. A collaboration between researchers at University of California, Davis, Humboldt State University, and Pachenga Cultural Center. http://nas.ucdavis.edu/NALC/JPH.html Topics: Languages, Native Americans Last updated Feb 21, 2008 Language of the Kalispel
This site includes English-to-Kalispel and Kalispel-to-English dictionaries, including Dictionary of the Kalispel or Flat-Head Indian Language, and "similar Kalispel language resources housed in Gonzaga University's Foley Library, Special Collections Department." Browsable. From Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington state) and the Kalispel Tribe of Indians. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/kalispel/ Topics: Languages, Native Americans Last updated Oct 14, 2004 The Maya Site
A "searchable database ... constructed from materials published in John Dienhart's 3-volume work, 'The Mayan Languages: A Comparative Vocabulary' (Odense University Press, 1989)." Contains more than 40,000 entries for 31 Mayan languages. Search by English keyword, Mayan form, date and notes, and Mayan language. Includes an annotated bibliography and one listed by date and information about the symbol set used. From the University of Southern Denmark. http://maya.hum.sdu.dk/ Topics: Languages, Native Americans Last updated Aug 26, 2006 Navajo Code Talkers
A website dedicated to the recognition of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II, who "developed the most significant and successful military code of the time." Includes history of the Code Talkers, a photo gallery, background on the presentation of congressional medals for the Code Talkers, and a few related links. Provided by New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, who sponsored the Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers Act of 2000. http://bingaman.senate.gov/features/codetalkers/ Topics: Computers, Languages, Military, Native Americans, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, World War II Last updated May 12, 2007 The Whulshootseed Alphabet
This site features sample words from the vocabulary of the Whulshootseed Indian language. Also called Puget Sound Salish or Lushootseed, this "is the traditional language of the Muckleshoot people and was spoken throughout the Puget Sound Basin" of Washington state. Includes sound files, and pictures created by students from the Indian Education class at Olympic Middle School in Auburn, Washington state. From the White River Valley Museum. http://www.wrvmuseum.org/alphabet/alphabet.htm Topics: Languages, Native Americans Last updated Jan 3, 2006 |
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