When he was a younger man, Unkechaug Nation Chief Harry Wallace had a vision. Wallace said he was told of three sacred bundles — one of which was the talking sticks, a tool of Indigenous democracy ...

Moviegoers who go see Terrence Malick's movie The New World will hear a scientifically restored "lost world." For almost a third of the film, a largely unrecorded Native American language that no one ...

A language lost due to colonization is being spoken once again by the Mattaponi. Mattaponi Chief Lionel “Wise Spirit” Custalow recently held a virtual Algonquin language class for tribal members ...

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite ...

No one knows what language was uttered by the first people to lay eyes upon the majestic river we call the Susquehanna. What we know about the languages of the Susquehanna’s early inhabitants comes ...

"Muh-shay-wah-NUH-toe. Chess-kay-dah-KAY-wak." Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In his house overlooking the silvery Mattaponi River ...

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 ...

An Arapaho camp at the site of Denver, Colorado during the time of the early gold rush, looking towards the site of modern Boulder, Colorado. The 54th Algonquian Conference will be held in Boulder, CO ...

The truism is that if you want to know a culture, learn the language. But what if the language and the culture are both dead – long, long dead? Historical linguists, social scientists who are the ...