There was once a linguistic landscape of incredible diversity in North America. While the continent of Europe has three main language families — Romance, Germanic, and Slavic — Native American ...

“Successful collaborations between Indigenous activists and academic linguists: How IYIL led to three projects for the IDIL.” Shannon Bischoff, Monica Macaulay, D.H. Whalen PDF “Three Algonquian ...

The 54th Algonquian Conference was held Oct. 20-23, 2022 on the CU campus, at the University of Colorado Law School. The special theme for the 54th Conference was the International Decade of ...

"Muh-shay-wah-NUH-toe. Chess-kay-dah-KAY-wak." In his house overlooking the silvery Mattaponi River, Ken Custalow said the words over and over until it drove his wife crazy. Until she yelled from the ...

Ojibwe language has been called by many names including Anishinaabemowin, Ojibwe, Ojibway, Ojibwa, Southwestern Chippewa, and Chippewa. It is a Central Algonquian language spoken by the Anishinaabe.

This article provides an analysis of the prepositional phrases of Maliseet-Passamaquoddy, an Eastern Algonquian language of New Brunswick and Maine. It establishes that these phrases may function as ...

The long-dead language of Pocahontas has been given new life by a linguist recruited to lend an air of authenticity to a Hollywood epic. Most have since died out, but months of painstaking research by ...

Take a drive through Long Island. You might notice village or hamlet names such as Massapequa, Hauppauge and Ronkonkoma, all of which are rooted in Algonquian, the language group of the island’s ...