Indigenous Languages of the Americas
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Beginning Dakota/Tokaheya Dakota Iapi Kin: 24 Language and Grammar Lessons with Glossaries
$27.95 Add to cartMembers and descendants of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate, a division of the Great Sioux Nation, live east of the Missouri River, mostly in North and South Dakota, and speak the Dakota dialect. As… [more below]
- Author: Knudson, Nicolette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0873517806
- Language: English
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Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs
$29.95 Add to cartThis authoritative work is the first visual dictionary of Maya glyphs published since the script’s complete deciphering, offering a much-needed, comprehensive catalogue of 1100 secured glyphs. Each en… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: December 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0781808626
- Language: English
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An English-Dakota Dictionary
$22.95 Add to cartJohn Williamson (1835-1917), son of missionary Dr. Thomas S. Williamson, grew up speaking both English and Dakota and spent most of his adult life on the Santee Reservation of northeastern Nebraska. I… [more below]
- Series: Borealis
- Author: Williamson, John P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: October 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0873512839
- Language: English
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This Mouth Is Mine
$16.95 Read moreA warm, witty, passionate cry for living, vital, indigenous languages and the people who speak them.
Despite the more than 200 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico, including 63 that are officially re
- Author: Elena a. Gil, Y?snaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 191386796X
- Language: English
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Cáw Pawá Láakni / They Are Not Forgotten: Sahaptian Place Names Atlas of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla
$29.95 Add to cartC?w Paw? L?akni / They Are Not Forgotten is a book like none other. This ethnogeographic atlas of Native place names presents a compelling account of interactions between a homeland and its people. A
- Author: Hunn, Eugene S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0295990260
- Language: English
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A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Nichols, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 1994
- ISBN10: 0816624283
- Language: English
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Navajo Corn Recipes: Diné Binaadą́ą́’ Ch’iyáán
$16.95 Add to cartThis illustrated book includes 20 authentic traditional Navajo corn recipes. It is a unique and never before published resource about traditional corn food. Historic cooking utensils are introduced an
- Author: Michaelis, Bernhard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: October 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0977755487
- Language: English
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Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings
$25.00 Add to cartSerpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Ser
- Author: Murdoch, Bomgiizhik Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120350
- Language: English
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Dakota Prisoner of War Letters: Dakota Kaskapi Okicize Wowapi
$27.95 Add to cartIn April 1863–after the Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.S. history– some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a p… [more below]
- Author: Canku, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 087351873X
- Language: English
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Maya-English/English-Maya Dictionary and Phrasebook
$16.95 Add to cartYucatec Maya, the most widely spoken Maya language, can be heard throughout Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, in Belize, and in parts of Guatemala. This unique guide is the perfect reference for visitors to… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0781808596
- Language: English
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Comanche Dictionary and Grammar, Second Edition
$57.95 Add to cartThis Comanche dictionary is based on research drawn from the files of the late Eliot Canonge which he initiated in the early 1940s under the auspices of SIL International. Dr. Robinson has rescued and… [more below]
- Author: Armagost, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 1556715242
- Language: English
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
$26.00 Add to cartAn essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.
Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California,
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145661
- Language: English
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A Dictionary of the Ojibway Language
$34.95 Add to cartThe language of the Ojibway people was recorded by Frederic Baraga (1797-1868), a missionary priest from Slovenia, who was sent in 1835 by the Catholic church to serve among the Ojibway living in the … [more below]
- Series: Borealis Books
- Author: Baraga, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: November 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0873512812
- Language: English
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Navajo-English Dictionary
$14.95 Add to cartNavajo is spoken in the American Southwest (primarily Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah) by the Navajo people, or Dine’. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo are one of the few tribes… [more below]
- Series: Hippocrene Dictionary
- Author: Wall, C. Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0781802474
- Language: English
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Indian Sign Language
$9.95 Add to cartPlains Indians from different tribes speaking different languages were nevertheless able to communicate facts and feelings of considerable complexity when they met. They used a language composed of ge… [more below]
- Series: Native American
- Author: Tomkins, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1969
- ISBN10: 048622029X
- Language: English
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Indians and Other Misnomers of the Upper Great Lakes: The True Indigenous Origins of Geographic Place Names
$25.95 Add to cartNo less than 27 out of the 50 states’ names in the USA are based in American Indian languages. Additionally, six out of 13 of Canada’s provinces and territories have names with indigenous origins, and
- Author: Bellfy, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997423
- Language: English
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How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning
$18.00 Add to cartAmid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1890771422
- Language: English
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Beginning Cherokee
$34.95 Add to cartThis book, the first of its kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans, although most of those who speak it use it only as a second language. Cheroke
- Author: Holmes, Ruth Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 15 1978
- ISBN10: 0806114630
- Language: English
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Talking with Hands: Everything You Need to Start Signing Native American Hand Talk – A Complete Beginner’s Guide with Over 200 Words and P
$24.99 Add to cartExplore Native American culture and learn Hand Talk, also known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Sign Talk, and First Nation Sign Language.
In Talking with Hands, professional Native American d- Author: Pahsetopah, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1577153669
- Language: English
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Whereas: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signal- Author: Soldier, Layli Long
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1555977677
- Language: English
