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NATIVE AMERICA
NATIONS & LANGUAGES
Virginia (Powhatan)
Mattaponi Tribe
The Mattaponi Indian Reservation was created from land long held by the Tribe by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1658. Being one of the oldest reservations in the country.
http://www.baylink.org/Mattaponi/
Matter of Perspective: Virginia's Indian Trib…
As of the 1990 census, there were 16,391 Native Americans currently residing in Virginia. Some are members of Virginia's recognized tribes. Representatives from tribes all over the United States now consider Virginia home.
http://www.vmnh.org/native.htm
Nansemond
At the time of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607 the Nansemond tribe was located in the general area of Reeds Ferry, near Chuckatuck, in the current city of Suffolk, Virginia.
http://www.nansemond.nativeland.com/
Pamunkey Tribe
The history of the Pamunkey Tribe has been recorded by archaeologist, anthropologist and historians and dates back ten to twelve thousand years.
http://www.baylink.org/pamunkey
Virginia Council on Indians Homepage
March, 1982, the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, created a subcommittee consisting of eleven members to undertake a comprehensive study of the historic dealings and relationship between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Virginia Indian Tribes. The joint subcommittee report, resulted in the formation of the "Commission on Indians".
http://indians.vipnet.org/
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Wampanoag
Wampanoag Indians - History, Culture, and Heritage
The Children's Museum and Wampanoag Indian Advisors jointly offer this website to help educators present the history of Wampanoag people with accuracy and respect.
http://www.bostonkids.org/teachers/TC/index.htm
Massachusetts Indian language
In 1634, William Woods' book New England's Prospect was published. He had visited Massachusetts for several years. What follows is a reprint of the last portion of his book--a list of the words he picked up from the Native Americans living in Massachusetts.
http://members.aol.com/calebj/language.html
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah:
The ancestors of Wampanoag people have lived for at least 10,000 years at Aquinnah (Gay Head) and throughout the island of Noepe (Martha's Vineyard), pursuing a traditional economy based on fishing and agriculture.
http://www.wampanoagtribe.net/
Warm Springs
Small Things Count for Big Things
Myra Shawaway, manager of the tribal Culture and Heritage Department, was born in Warm Springs of a Paiute father and raised by a grandmother who spoke Sahaptin, the language of the Warm Springs people.
http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/summer00/small.html
Warm Springs Reservation
Welcome to Warm Springs, a nation where the sun shines most every day and time turns to the pace of a culture that has been thousands of years in the making.
http://www.warmsprings.com/
Washoe
Washoe
For over 400 generations Lake Tahoe has been the home of the Washoe People.
http://itcn.org/tribes/washoe/intro.html
Washoe Educational Project
This curriculum is about the Washoe Indians, who live in this area and whose culture has been here for over 9000 years.
http://www.unr.edu/nnap/WC/wc_main.htm
Speaking the language of the land
As the sun rose over Lake Tahoe, a line of children held hands and prayed to the lake in their native tongue, Washoe. The sunlight glowed on the water and splashed bright color on their faces where they stood looking out over the water.
http://www.greatbasinweb.com/millennium/washoe.html
Winnebago
See Ho-Chunk/Winnebago
WinTU
Native Americans Around Mt. Shasta - Wintu
The Wintu are the northern most group of the Wintun people that inhabit a long narrow stretch of the western Sacramento Valley north of the San Francisco bay to the Trinity/Sacramento/McCloud rivers (Lapena 324). Other names associated with the Wintu have included: Wintun, Wintoons, Kenesti, Patawe and Northern Wintun (Brandt and Davis-Kimball xviii).
http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/nat/win.htm
The Wintu Share Their Cottonwood Valley
The so called Cottonwood Indians had existed for hundreds of years in this area prior to the coming of the Europeans. At the time of the arrival of the whites, the indigenous peoples had fairly definite areas of habitation, with the Yana (Nosa-Nozi) occupying the area east of the Sacramento River, and three general Wintun peoples occupying the area west of the river and into the foothills. Frémont named what we now know as Battle Creek "Nozi Creek" after these Yana people. Less observant whites frequently lumped them all together with the unfriendly epithet "Diggers."
http://www.geocities.com/cott1388/wintun.html
Wyandot
Huron - Wendat of Wendake
Bienvenue sur le site officiel du Regroupement des familles wendat. Survolez-le afin de mieux connaître la Nation Huronne-Wendat et son dévloppement.
http://www.wendake.ca/
Wyandot Nation of Kansas
The Wyandot Nation of Kansas is proud to be a member of the Wendat Confederacy.
http://www.wyandot.org/
Wyandot Nation of Oklahoma
Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma is a Federally Recognized U.S.Indian Tribe and member of the Wendat Confederacy
http://www.wyandot.org/oklahoma/
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Yavapai-Apache
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
The current boundaries of the Fort McDowell reservation mark only a small portion of the ancestral territory of the bands of Yavapais whos homeland was the vast area called Arizona and the Mogollon Rim country. The Yavapai Indians descended from the Hohokam culture and have a language similar to the Havasupai and Hualapai Indians.
http://www.ftmcdowell.org/
Yavapai-Apache Nation
Welcome to the Yavapai-Apache Nation Web Site.
http://www.yavapai-apache-nation.com/
Yup'ik
Yup'ik of Western Alaska
The Yup'ik Eskimos of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta area in Western Alaska lived in an environment that was very different from our stereotyped images of a barren, icy, harsh existence
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~epsadm03/yupik.html
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Zuni
Pueblo of Zuni
Welcome to the Pueblo of Zuni! The Zuni Pueblo is nestled in a picturesque valley, surrounded by beautiful mesas, about 150 miles southwest of Albuquerque.
http://www.ashiwi.net/main.html
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GENERAL NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE INFORMATION:
Activities for ESL Students
This web site has over 1,000 activities to help you study English as a Second Language. This project of The Internet TESL Journal includes contributions by many teachers.
http://www.a4esl.org/
American Indian Language Policy and School Success
This article looks from a historical perspective at what impact the implementation of the American Indian Languages Act might have on Indian education.
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/BOISE.html
Dave's ESL Cafe
First introduced in 1995, this well-known website, designed and maintained by Dave Sperling, is a meeting place for both ESL teachers and students.

This friendly site provides numerous resources for instruction, activities and games, specific teaching tips, as well as opportunities for ESL teachers and ESL students to interact with their peers through chats and discussion groups.
http://www.eslcafe.com/
Directory of ESL Resources Online
The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA) and Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), have created this online directory of ESL resources.
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/ncbe/esldirectory/
Ethnologue:Americas Languages
United States of America. 261,000,000 (1994 US Census Bureau); 1,900,000 American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts, not all speaking indigenous languages (1990 census).
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/USA.html
Foundation For Endangered Languages
The aims of the Foundation are: to raise awareness of endangered languages, both inside and outside the communities where they are spoken, through all channels and media; ...
http://www.ogmios.org/
Indigenous Languages and Speakers in the US
How many indigenous American languages are spoken in the United States? By how many speakers?
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/askncela/20natlang.htm
IPOLA
IPOLA—the Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas— works with indigenous communities to preserve and perpetuate the languages of the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere. IPOLA's mission is based on a belief that language is the foundation of culture.
http://www.ipola.org/main.html
Language List
Linguistic Classificationof American Indians
http://users.cybercity.dk/~nmb3879/indian.html
Lannan Foundation Language Grants
Lannan has supported several local efforts toward the revitalization and preservation of Native languages. These projects are located throughout the United States, and involve a number of different languages including Blackfoot, Mohawk, Hawaiian, and Washo.
http://www.lannan.org/ICP/grant/language.htm
Learn English-Have Fun
Learn english and have fun on this site!
Do you want to learn English? Do you want to have fun?
If your answer is "Yes", then you are at the right place for ESL practice.
Here you can find English games to give you fun practice, English crosswords to help you remember all those new words, ESL tests to practise vocabulary and grammar, and great English jokes so you can laugh while you learn. Make every day an English day
http://www.englishday.com/
Learning an Endangered Language
Some ways you can learn more about an endangered language, investigate languages indigenous to your own locality, take a course in an endangered language, buy a recording of an endangered language, read a grammar of an endangered language.
http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/study.html
Native American Languages Act 1990
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/stabilize/ii-policy/nala1990.htm
Native American Languages
Links to many Native American languages.

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/natlang.html
North Amerindian Languages
Numbers in North Amerindian Languages

http://www.zompist.com/amer.htm
Native American Language Preservation
Even when there are many speakers of a Native language, that language can be endangered. Native American Language Preservation (NALP) is a national organization consisting of educators and linguists working to teach and preserve Native American languages
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http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/CASAE/nalp/index.html
Resources for Endangered Languages
This site is for members and friends of endangered language communities, with an emphasis on Native American languages
http://www.nativelanguages.org/
Saving Our Tongues
Tony Mattina wishes we'd pay as much attention to saving Native American languages as we do to preserving plant and animal species like the spotted owl.
http://www.umt.edu/comm/wint96/tongues.htm
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages includes descriptions of successful native language programs and papers by leaders in the field of indigenous language study.
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/miscpubs/stabilize/
Teaching Indigenous Languages Home Page
Teaching Indigenous Languages-Educators Resources
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html
"the People's Paths home page!" First People's Language
First People's Language Resources!
http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/language.html
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Languages of the United States of America
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=USA
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