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Living Our Language

Ojibwe Tales and Oral Histories

by Anton Treuer ...

Series series Native Voices
A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language ... Read more

$13.09 USD

A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language
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Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà

Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life, & Art

by Kyla LeSage, Thumlee Drybones-Foliot, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson ...

Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life & Art is a collection of essays, interviews, short stories, and poetry written by emerging and established northern Indigenous writers and artists. Centered on land, cultural practice and northern life, this ground-breaking collection shares wealth of Dene (Gwich’in, Sahtú, Dehcho, Tłı̨chǫ, Saysi, Kaska, Dënesųłiné, Wıìlıìdeh) Inuit, ... Read more

$11.89 USD

Ndè Sı̀ı̀ Wet’aɂà: Northern Indigenous Voices on Land, Life & Art is a collection of essays, interviews, short stories, and poetry written by emerging and established northern Indigenous writers and artists. Centered on land, cultural practice and northern life, this ground-breaking collection shares wealth of Dene (Gwich’in, Sahtú, Dehcho, Tłı̨chǫ, Saysi, Kaska, Dënesųłiné, Wıìlıìdeh) Inuit,
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WHEREAS

Poems

by Layli Long Soldier ...

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' AwardWHEREAS 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? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your ... Read more

$9.99 USD

The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' AwardWHEREAS 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? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your
... Read more
2nd Grade US History: Native Americans to Early Settlers

Second Grade Books

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's American History Books
Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. The use of pictures creates a definite scenario that would stick to the memory well. So if you're looking for a more effective method of teaching history, this book is what you need! ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Why is it important to know who the early settlers were? To trace our culture and traditions, of course! This educational book presents what would otherwise be a boring subject for young children. The use of pictures creates a definite scenario that would stick to the memory well. So if you're looking for a more effective method of teaching history, this book is what you need!
... Read more
A Phonetic English to Arawak Dictionary

by Damon Corrie ...

The absolute MOST IMPORTANT FACT you need to know is that there is no 'right' way to write the Lokono-Arawak language, remember it was NEVER a written language, in fact, I am the first person in the world to write my Tribal language PHONETICALLY - as people who speak English as their first language SHOULD pronounce it.I say this because even though there is no 'right' way to write it - there IS a ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The absolute MOST IMPORTANT FACT you need to know is that there is no 'right' way to write the Lokono-Arawak language, remember it was NEVER a written language, in fact, I am the first person in the world to write my Tribal language PHONETICALLY - as people who speak English as their first language SHOULD pronounce it.I say this because even though there is no 'right' way to write it - there IS a
... Read more
Ishi, the Last Aborigine: The Effects of Civilization on a Genuine Survivor of Stone Age Barbarism

by Alfred L. Kroeber ...

"Kroeber's 'Ishi, the Last Aborigine' invites some reflections on the imperfections of civilization." - Twentieth Century Magazine, 1912Ishi (1861 –1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in ... Read more

$2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Kroeber's 'Ishi, the Last Aborigine' invites some reflections on the imperfections of civilization." - Twentieth Century Magazine, 1912Ishi (1861 –1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United States. The rest of the Yahi (as well as many members of their parent tribe, the Yana) were killed in the California genocide in
... Read more
A Tohono O'odham Grammar

by Ofelia Zepeda ...

This first pedagogical grammar of the Papago language features twenty chapters on grammatical constructions and five sample dialogs—plus abbreviations, symbols, summary of grammatical elements, and two glossaries. Classroom-tested for teaching both native and non-native speakers, the text also offers linguists an overview of the Papago language not available elsewhere. ... Read more

$17.99 USD

This first pedagogical grammar of the Papago language features twenty chapters on grammatical constructions and five sample dialogs—plus abbreviations, symbols, summary of grammatical elements, and two glossaries. Classroom-tested for teaching both native and non-native speakers, the text also offers linguists an overview of the Papago language not available elsewhere.
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Bringing Our Languages Home

Language Revitalization for Families

by Leanne Hinton ...

Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana put labels all over their house marked with the Miami words for common objects and activities, to
... Read more
Simply Cherokee: Let’s Learn Cherokee

Syllabary

by Marc W. Case ...

Do you know how to speak Cherokee, but cannot read and write the language? Do your children have difficulty grasping the language? Are you new to the Cherokee language and looking for a quick and effective way to learn? Simply Cherokee: Let’s Learn Cherokee Syllabary is the first building block in Simply Cherokee’s catalogue of tools for learning to read, write, and speak the Cherokee language. ... Read more

$3.99 USD

Do you know how to speak Cherokee, but cannot read and write the language? Do your children have difficulty grasping the language? Are you new to the Cherokee language and looking for a quick and effective way to learn? Simply Cherokee: Let’s Learn Cherokee Syllabary is the first building block in Simply Cherokee’s catalogue of tools for learning to read, write, and speak the Cherokee language.
... Read more
Inglés exprés: Inglés de base

Curso rápido para principiantes

by Jack Winshsley ...

Bajo la dirección de Robert Wilson, director de la colección y fundador de la colección “Aprender idiomas en 5 días”. ¿Aprender inglés de manera sencilla y divertida? ¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson y sus cursos en 30 minutos cada día, no más, el lector tiene la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con una lección por ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bajo la dirección de Robert Wilson, director de la colección y fundador de la colección “Aprender idiomas en 5 días”. ¿Aprender inglés de manera sencilla y divertida? ¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson y sus cursos en 30 minutos cada día, no más, el lector tiene la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con una lección por
... Read more
Comanche Vocabulary

Trilingual Edition

Edited by Manuel García Rejón ...

Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
"This is the most important pre-reservation document that we have for the Comanche language . . . It should be in every university research library." —James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech UniversityThe Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861–1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the ... Read more

$14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"This is the most important pre-reservation document that we have for the Comanche language . . . It should be in every university research library." —James A. Goss, Professor of Anthropology, Texas Tech UniversityThe Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861–1864 by Manuel García Rejón is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the
... Read more
Inglés exprés: Currículum vitae, cartas comerciales y correos electrónicos

Modelos y vocabulario profesional en inglés

by Jack Winshsley ...

Director de la colección: Robert Wilson. Si nos paramos a analizar la cantidad de cartas y correos electrónicos profesionales que hay que hacer hoy en día en inglés o recapacitamos sobre el número de veces en que hemos rectificado nuestro currículum y nos imaginamos unas lecciones ideadas para que se puedan estudiar en 30 minutos, veremos que aprender o perfeccionar el inglés es perfectamente ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Director de la colección: Robert Wilson. Si nos paramos a analizar la cantidad de cartas y correos electrónicos profesionales que hay que hacer hoy en día en inglés o recapacitamos sobre el número de veces en que hemos rectificado nuestro currículum y nos imaginamos unas lecciones ideadas para que se puedan estudiar en 30 minutos, veremos que aprender o perfeccionar el inglés es perfectamente
... Read more
English Ojibwe Lexicon

by Robert Goh ...

Series series World Languages Dictionary
This English > Ojibwe lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. ... Read more

$5.87 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This English > Ojibwe lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world.
... Read more
Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus

by Dr. Daniel J. Gelo, Christopher J. Wickham, Heide Castañeda ...

Series Book 42 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, ... Read more

$8.69 USD

Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas,
... Read more
How To Speak Nahuatl | Learn The Lenguage Of The Gods For Beginners

by Charly F. ...

Unlock the ancient language of the Aztecs with "How To Speak Nahuatl, For Beginners" your comprehensive guide to mastering one of the indigenous languages of Mexico. This ebook offers a step-by-step approach to learning Nahuatl, providing essential vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation guides to help you communicate effectively. Whether you're interested in exploring the rich cultural heritage of ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Unlock the ancient language of the Aztecs with "How To Speak Nahuatl, For Beginners" your comprehensive guide to mastering one of the indigenous languages of Mexico. This ebook offers a step-by-step approach to learning Nahuatl, providing essential vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation guides to help you communicate effectively. Whether you're interested in exploring the rich cultural heritage of
... Read more
New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues

The First Vocabulary Ever Published in the Abenakis Language

by Abenakis Chief Joseph Laurent, Mint Editions ...

Series series Mint Editions (Native Stories, Indigenous Voices)
“The writer hopes that many of the white people will be glad to avail themselves of the advantage and facility thus afforded to them for becoming acquainted in some measure, and with very little trouble, with that truly admirable language of those Aborigines called Abenakis, which, from the original word Wôbanaki means; peasant or inhabitant from the East.”At a time when the Abenaki had little to ... Read more

$8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

“The writer hopes that many of the white people will be glad to avail themselves of the advantage and facility thus afforded to them for becoming acquainted in some measure, and with very little trouble, with that truly admirable language of those Aborigines called Abenakis, which, from the original word Wôbanaki means; peasant or inhabitant from the East.”At a time when the Abenaki had little to
... Read more
A Grammar and Dictionary of the Timucua Language

by Julian Granberry ...

Preserving the voice of a vanished people through language, history, and scholarship.Taken from the surviving contemporary documentary sources, Julian Granberry's volume describes the grammar and lexicon for the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida and traces the origins of the 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language. Originally privately published in 1987, ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Preserving the voice of a vanished people through language, history, and scholarship.Taken from the surviving contemporary documentary sources, Julian Granberry's volume describes the grammar and lexicon for the extinct 17th-century Timucua language of Central and North Florida and traces the origins of the 17th-century Timucua speakers and their language. Originally privately published in 1987,
... Read more
kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân / The Way I Remember

by Solomon Ratt ...

Series series Our Own Words
A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories.When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system—a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet ... Read more

$16.59 USD

A residential school survivor finds his way back to his language and culture through his family’s traditional stories.When reflecting on forces that have shaped his life, Solomon Ratt says his education was interrupted by his schooling. Torn from his family at the age of six, Ratt was placed into the residential school system—a harsh, institutional world, operated in a language he could not yet
... Read more
The Annals of the Cakchiquels

The Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and Introduction

by Daniel G. Brinton ...

The Annals of the CakchiquelsThe Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and IntroductionThis edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSPREFACE,INTRODUCTION,Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels,Culture of the Cakchiquels,The Capital City of the Cakchiquels,Computation of Time,Personal and Family Names,Tribal Subdivisions,Terms of Affinity and... ... Read more

$3.99 USD

The Annals of the CakchiquelsThe Original Text, with a Translation, Notes and IntroductionThis edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and IndexCONTENTSPREFACE,INTRODUCTION,Ethnologic Position of the Cakchiquels,Culture of the Cakchiquels,The Capital City of the Cakchiquels,Computation of Time,Personal and Family Names,Tribal Subdivisions,Terms of Affinity and...
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Dictionary of the Ponca People

by Louis V. Headman, Sean O'Neill ...

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Dictionary of the Ponca People presents approximately five thousand words and definitions used by Ponca speakers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Until relatively recently, the Ponca language had been passed down solely as part of an oral tradition in
... Read more
1st Grade United States History: Early American Settlers

First Grade Books

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's American History Books
Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures to look at. This educational book also makes it easier to communicate with descriptive words to relay drawn messages. Grab a copy of this informative book today! ... Read more

$4.99 USD

Learning American history is more effective if done via pictures. Children are attracted to the vibrant colors of meaningful pictures. It's easier to imagine previous events when there are pictures to look at. This educational book also makes it easier to communicate with descriptive words to relay drawn messages. Grab a copy of this informative book today!
... Read more
America's Bilingual Century - How Americans Are Giving the Gift of Bilingualism to Themselves, Their Loved Ones, and Their Country

by Steve Leveen ...

"By far the most engaging, informative, and fascinating book on learning a new language ever written, full of more candidly acknowledged humiliation, unexpectedly exalted success, and very funny stories than you'd ever imagine."--Tom Morris, national bestselling author of Plato's Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something GreatScientists have shown bilingualism to be brain-changing. It can ... Read more

$9.99 USD

"By far the most engaging, informative, and fascinating book on learning a new language ever written, full of more candidly acknowledged humiliation, unexpectedly exalted success, and very funny stories than you'd ever imagine."--Tom Morris, national bestselling author of Plato's Lemonade Stand: Stirring Change into Something GreatScientists have shown bilingualism to be brain-changing. It can
... Read more
English Navajo Lexicon

by Robert Goh ...

Series series World Languages Dictionary
This English > Navajo lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. ... Read more

$5.87 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This English > Navajo lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world.
... Read more
Guarani English Lexicon

by Trebor Hog ...

Series series World Languages Dictionary
This Guarani > English lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world. ... Read more

$5.87 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This Guarani > English lexicon is based on the 200+ language 8,000 entry World Languages Dictionary CD of 2007 which was subsequently lodged in national libraries across the world.
... Read more

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