Nineteenth and early 20th–century written notes on spoken Native American languages are valuable in the effort to sustain and revive these languages after a long history of suppression and loss. Many ...

The preschool children sit with legs crossed, squirming a little, as their language class begins at a Native American Head Start preschool on a reservation in Shasta County. “Hestum,” says the teacher ...

(The name of Miami, Florida, comes from the language of the unrelated Calusa ... neglected their native tongue. By the 1960s, the last fluent speaker was dead, and Tim McCoy grew up without ...

(US Census Bureau) There are about 150 Native American languages in the United States and Canada. About 381,000 people speak a native language at home.(US Census Bureau) About one-third of Native ...

In fact, Dennis Jones may be one of the only ones. Jones, who prefers to use his native name, Pebaamibines, teaches first- and second-year Ojibwe language in the American Indian studies department.