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Resources to Learn Indigenous Languages of North America

Abenaki Alabama Aleut Alutiiq Arapaho Biloxi/Tunica Blackfoot Catawba
Cayuga Cherokee Cheyenne Chinook Jargon Choctaw Ch'ol Cocopah Couer d'Alene
Cree Creek Crow Delaware Greenlandic Gwich'in Hopi Inuit Sign Language
Inuktitut Kiliwa Kootenai Kumeyaay Lakota Lushootseed Mikasuki Mi'kmaq
Mixteco Mobilian Jargon Mohawk Náhuatl Narragansett Navajo Nez Percé Nootka
Ojibwe Oneida Onondaga Paipai Pawnee Purépecha Seneca Shoshone
Tlingit Tuscarora Tzotzil Winnebago Yucatec Maya Yuchi Zapoteco Zuni

Abenaki

Online

Western Abenaki
Cowasuck
ATS-Group Resources
Penobscot Nation Resources
Malian's Song
Enclitic Particles in Western Abenaki: The Syntax of Second Position
Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names
The Penobscot Language of Maine
Memrise
Welcome to the Abenaki Language
Western Abenaki Facebook Group
The Morphology of Modern Western Abenaki
Wôbanakiôdwawôgan: Sketch of Western Abenaki Grammar
Native-Languages Resources

YouTube Channels

Abenaki Language Class with MariElla Squire
Beginning Abenaki Language Lessons
Western Abenaki Language

Books and DVD

L8dwaw8gan wji Abaznodakaw8gan: The Language of Basket Making
Abenaki and English Dialogues
Abenaki Indian Legends, Grammar and Place Names
Abenaki Dictionary
"Saints and Strangers" miniseries DVD (lots of Abenaki spoken)

Alabama

Online

Native-Languages Resource List
Dictionary
Absence of Noun Marking in Alabama (free with log-in)
Comparatives in Alabama (free with log-in)

Books

Dictionary of the Alabama Language

Aleut

Online

Memrise
Unangan Language Course
Language Tools
The Aleut Language
Ancient Aleut Personal Names
Dictionary
Learning Tools
Introduction to Atkan Aleut

YouTube Channels

An Intro to Unangam Tunuu
Word of the Week

Books

Aleut Grammar
University of Alaska Store

Alutiiq

Online

Qik’rtarmiut Alutiitstun/Sugt’stun: Teaching Resource Workbook
Dictionary
A Conversational Dictionary of Kodiak Alutiiq
Alutiiq Language
Alutiiq Museum
Sugcestun
Memrise

YouTube Channels

The Sound of the Alutiiq language
Alutiiq Language Resources

Books

University of Alaska Store

Apps

Three New Apps

Arapaho

Online

Arapaho Language Archives
Dictionary of the Arapaho Language
Arapaho Dialects
Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Arapaho
Let's Learn Arapaho Workbook and the Answer Key
Home with Arapaho
Place Names

YouTube Channels

Cheyenne and Arapaho Television: Arapaho Language
Cheyenne Arapaho Language Department: Arapaho Language Videos
Northern Arapaho Language Lessons
Frybread Flats
Bear Says Thank You
Arapaho Language Project
Arapaho Language
Ant & Grasshopper

Books

The Arapaho Language (Reference Grammar)
Arapaho Stories, Songs, and Prayers: A Bilingual Anthology
Arapaho Historical Traditions: Hinono'einoo3itoono

Apps

Arapaho Language: Android or Apple

Biloxi/Tunica

Online

Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana Resources
Tunica Language Project

YouTube Channels

Tunica-Biloxi LCRP
“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Waking the Sleeping Language of Tunica
WIKITONGUES: Donna and Elisabeth speaking Tunica and English

Books

Biloxi Dictionary
Revitalization Lexicography: The Making of the New Tunica Dictionary

Blackfoot

Online

On Blackfoot Syllabics and the Law of Finals
Blackfeet Vocabulary Terms for Items of Material Culture
Blackfoot Language Resources
O'towaawahkao'pa Ponoka: A Blackfoot Reader
Ponoká ki Sisttsí: A Blackfoot Reader
Language Information
Blackfoot
Blackfeet Community Language Program
Native-Languages Resources
Resources for Learning Blackfoot
Translating Blackfoot Kinship Terms in a Blackfoot-English Bilingual Dictionary

YouTube Channels

Ponoká ki Sisttsí
O'towaawahkao'pa Ponoka
The Sound of the Blackfoot Language
Blackfoot Language Lessons
Intro to Blackfoot Pronunciation
Small Number Counts To 100
Blackfoot Syllabics

Books

Blackfoot Stories of Old
The Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots, and Affixes
Blackfoot Grammar
Blackfoot Language Games

Catawba

Online

Catawba Language Project Facebook Group
Grammatic Sketch of the Catawba Language
Catawba Nation Project
Myths and Tales
Catawba Texts

Books

Vocabulary of the Catawba language

Cayuga

Online

Ohwejagehka
A Grammar-Driven Bilingual Digital Dictionary for Cayuga
Resources for Learning Cayuga
Structure of Cayuga
Prosody of Cayuga Content Questions
The Prosody of Multiclausal Constructions in Cayuga
Cayuga Language
Language Lessons
Ongweh Goga Books Text

YouTube Channels

Dwadewayehsta Gayogohono
Cayuga Language Circle
Cayuga Story
oyaˀdaˀ
Hnyagwai Datgi Gó:wah (Ugly Bear- Cayuga)
Love You Forever

Books

English-Cayuga / Cayuga-English Dictionary
Wadewayestanih: A Cayuga Teaching Grammar

Apps

Speak Cayuga Android or Apple

Cherokee

Online

Dictionary
Eastern Dialect (great verb guide)
A Reference Grammar of Oklahoma Cherokee
Cherokee Nation Language Learning Center
Your Grandmother's Cherokee
Mango Languages
Cherokee Lessons
EBCI Resources
Shiyo
Tsalagi Tsiwoniha

YouTube Channels

Osiyo TV
Atse Kituwah
Sound of the Cherokee Language
Tsasuyed Johannah
RSU Public TV Lessons

Books

Simply Cherokee: Let's Learn Syllabary
Beginning Cherokee
Cherokee Language Lessons
Cherokee Narratives: A Linguistic Study

Cheyenne

Online

Cheyenne Language
Cheyenne Dictionary
Native-Languages
Common Cheyenne Words
Northern Cheyenne versus Southern Cheyenne: Two Different Dialects?
Quizlet
English-Cheyenne Dictionary
Portions of the Bible

YouTube Channels

The Great Race
Several Cheyenne-language videos here, I recommend using the 'Portions of the Bible' link above and following along with the spoken material here
Cheyenne Language Videos
Frybread Flats
The Sound of the Cheyenne Language
Northern Cheyenne Language Preservation Institute

Books

A Reference Grammar of the Cheyenne Language

Chinook Jargon

Online

Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Native-Languages
Chinook Jargon - The Hidden Language of the Pacific Northwest
Chinook Jargon Phrasebook
Chinook Texts (in English, but still interesting)
Directory to Online Jargon Dictionaries and Other References
Chinook: An Illustrative Sketch
The Chinook Book
Chinook as Spoken by the Indians of Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska
Tenas Wawa
Chinook Jargon
The Evolution of the Chinook Jargon Language
Memrise

YouTube Channels

The Sound of the Chinook Jargon Language
Chinuk Wawa: Beginner Level
Chinook Jargon
Myrtle Woodcock Speaks Chinook Language (1952)
The Four Ages
Phrase of the Week

Books

Chinuk Wawa: As Our Elders Teach Us to Speak It
Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Hymns in the Chinook Jargon Language
Dictinoary of the Chinook Jargon Language

Ch'ol

Online

Complementation in Chol (Mayan): A Theory of Split Ergativity
El Ch'ol (main page is in Spanish, some links are in English)
Little-v0 Agreement and Templatic Morphology in Ch’ol
Introduction to the Historical Dictionary of Chol (Mayan): With a Sketch of the Grammar of Chol
A Grammar of Chol
Ch'ol
Chol Ritual Language
Native-Languages Resources
Vocabulario de Lengua Chol

YouTube Channels

On the Ch'ol Language (Subtitled in Ch'ol and Spanish)
Los sentidos en Chol (The Senses in Ch'ol)
Alphabet (en español)
Numbers (en español)
El origen de la vida (The Origins of Life)
The Jesus Film

Books

The Ch'ol Maya of Chiapas
Guide to the Ch'ol Language (Lak T'an) with Grammar and Useful Phrases

Couer d'Alene

Online

CDA Tribe Resources
Texts
Resource Compilation
Aspect
Grammar of Plant Names
Grammar

Creek

Online

Mvskoke Language Program
Beginning Creek
Reader
Materials for the Teaching of Creek
Language Chart
A Grammar of the Creek Language

YouTube Channels

Sound of the Creek Language
Mvskoke
Lullaby
Alphabet
Beginning the Mvskoke Language

Books

Beginning Creek
Intermediate Creek
A Dictionary of Creek / Muskogee
A Grammar of Creek

Apps

Maskoke Vocab Builder (iPhone)

Crow

Online

Crow Language Consortium
Dictionary

YouTube Channels

Picture Book
Crow Language
Sound of the Crow Language

Books

A Grammar of Crow
Lily Good Path Becomes the Buffalo

Apps

Crow Media Player (iPhone)
Crow Apsaalooké: Apple or Android

Inuit Sign Language

Online

Signing in the Arctic: External Influences on Inuit Sign Language
Documenting Inuit Sign Language: focus on agreement and classifiers
Sociolinguistic Profile of Inuit Sign Language
Inuit Sign Language: a contribution to sign language typology
Inuit Sign Language (Prezi presentation)
Preservation and Revitalization of Inuit Sign Language
Signs of the Arctic: Typological Aspect of Inuit Sign Language

YouTube Channels

Canada Deafness Research and Training Institute
Sign Language in Nunavut

Books

Inuit Sign Language

Inuktitut

Online

Inuktut Tusaalanga
NewJourneys Resources
Inuit-Specific Online Learning Resources
Pinnguaq
Intro to Inuktitut
Inuktut Reference Grammar
Intermediate Inuktitut

YouTube Channels

Learn Inuktitut
Learn the Language

Books

The Language of the Inuit
Eastern Arctic Inuktitut New Testament
Bible Stories in Inuktitut Language

Apps

Inuuqatigiit
McGill

Kiliwa

Online

Counting in Kiliwa
Kiliwa Myth
Native-Languages
Introduction to the Kiliwa Language

YouTube Channels

All of the videos I found were in Spanish. Here is one that is in Kiliwa with Spanish subtitles:
Entre Lenguas: Kiliwa

Books

Kiliwa
Kiliwa Dictionary

Kootenai

Online

First Voices
Native-Languages Resource List
Language Geek
Kootenai Social Network Community

YouTube Channels

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Seven Part Series

Books

A Kootenai Grammar

Apps

Ktunaxa: iPhone or Android

Lushootseed

Online

Lushootseed: The Language of Puget Sound
Native-Languages
Puyallup Tribal Language
Lushootseed Language Institute
Some Notes on Phonological Phrasing in Lushootseed
Elements of Lushootseed Grammar in Discourse Perspective
Annotating and Exploring Lushootseed Morphosyntax
Words and Prosodic Phrasing in Lushootseed Narrative
Lushootseed Research
The Lushootseed Language: Examining Linguistics in the Native Pacific Northwest

YouTube Channels

Puyallup Tribal Language
Stillaguamish Tribe

Books

Lushootseed Reader With Introductory Grammar
Lushootseed Texts: An Introduction to Puget Salish Narrative Aesthetics
Lushootseed Dictionary

Mi'kmaq

Online

First Voices
Learn Mi'gmaq Online
Quizlet
Bilingual Podcast
Micmac News (in English, but still interesting)
Mikmaw-English Lexicon
Mikmaq Online
First Nation Help
Omniglot
University of Toronto Resources
Original Voices
Talking Posters
Mi'kmawey Debert Cultural Centre

YouTube

Level 1 Mi'kmaw
Level 2 Mi'kmaw
Level 2.1 Mi'kmaw
Mi'kmaq Language
Sing Mikmaq

Books

The Mi'kmaw Grammar of Father Pacifique
English-Micmac Dictionary
Mi'kmaw Animals
Earth Tribe Bedtime Prayers
Books (must download Adobe Air to read)

Apps

L'nui'suti
Tal-Tluen?

Mobilian Jargon

Online

Language Resources
Facebook Group
"Walnut Moon" Song

YouTube Channels

Four Minute Lesson
More Songs

Books

Phrasebook and Lexicon

Mohawk

Online

First Voices
Kanehsatake Voices
$40 CAD Online Course
University of Toronto Resources
Basic Dictinary with Audio
Additional Resources
Reflexives in Mohawk

YouTube Channels

Sound of the Mohawk Language
Kanyen'kéha Tewathró:ri
Karonhiio

Books

Kanyen'Keha Tewatati: Let's Speak Mohawk
Kanyen'Keha Tewatati with Audio
One Thousand Useful Mohawk Words
Radical Words of the Mohawk Language With Their Derivatives
A Collection of Psalms and Hymns in the Mohawk Language
Let's Speak Mohawk
Elliot's Vocabulary of Mohawk

Apps

Speak Mohawk: Android or Apple

Nootka

Online

Our World, Our Ways: Taat'aaqsapa Cultural Dictionary
Native-Languages
Tseshaht First Nation
Nuuchahnulth Language
First Voices
Studies in Southern Wakashan (Nootkan) Grammar
Nuuchahnulth Grammar Reference for LC Language Notes

YouTube Channels

nuuchahnulthlanguagelessons
nuuchahnulthlanguage
Common Verbs
The Sound of the Nootka Language
Barkley Nuu-chah-nulth Language Videos
Nuu Chah Nulth Language
Nuuchahnulth Language Cooking Show

Books

The Linearization of Affixes: Evidence from Nuu-chah-nulth
Abnormal Types of Speech in Nootka
Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) Morphosyntax
A Concise Dictionary of the Nuuchahnulth Language of Vancouver Island

Onondaga

Online

YouTube Channels

Books

Seneca

Online

A Grammar of the Seneca Language
Dictionary
Learning the Seneca Language
Seneca Language
SNI Resources

YouTube Channels

Seneca Language
Kohgeh and Tših
Seneca Language Videos

Shoshone

Online

Survey of Shoshone Grammar with Reference to Eastern Shoshone
Shoshone Grammar for Everybody (Facebook group)
Dictionary
Shoshoni Language Project
Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Shoshoni
Shoshone Language Home Page
Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Grammar

YouTube Channels

Keith Honaker, "Shoshone Language Retention"
Shoshone Language Learning Materials
Shoshone Goshute Youth Language Apprenticeship Program
Shoshoni Language Project
Shoshoni Language
Shoshone Language
Fallon Paiute Shoshone Tribe

Books

Vocabulary of the Shoshone Language
An Introduction to the Shoshoni Language
Spirit Rider: A Collection of Contemporary Poetry in the Shoshoni Language
Western Shoshoni Grammar
Western Shoshoni Grammar

Tlingit

Online

Beginning Tlingit
^^ Audio
Lingít Yoo X̲ʼatángi
The Sounds of English and Tlingit
Dictionary (1)
Dictionary (2)
Verb Dictionary
Beginning Tlingit Workbook
Lingít X̱ʼéináx̱ Sá (Phrasebook)
Haa Wsineix̲ Haa Yoo X̲ʼatángi (Intermediate Grammar)
Tingit Reference Guide
Oral Narratives
Haa Tuwunáagu Yís
Verb Stem List
Notes on Verbs
Verbal Structure Handbook
Verb Conjugator
Verb Root Database

YouTube Channels

Sound of Tlingit
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell

Books

University of Alaska Store

Apps

Yakutat Tlingit (iPhone)

Tuscarora

Online

Tuscarora and Six Nations Websites
Chief Elton Greene's Dictionary
University of Toronto Resources
Tuscarora Language Facebook Group

YouTube Channels

Clans
Counting
Animals
Words of Life

Tzotzil

Online

Native-Languages Resources
Swadesh List
Oventic Language School
XEVFS - Tzotzil Radio Station
XECOPA - Tzotzil Radio Station
New Testament
The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Zinacantán
The syntax of Tzotzil auxiliaries and directionals
Sk’op Sotz’leb: El Tzotzil de San Lorenzo Zinacantan

YouTube Channels

Poemas en Tzotzil
Oso En Tzotzil K'usi X'anox Leni
Learning Tzotzil from the Locals
Frases en Tsotsil
Alfabeto Tsotsil
Tzotsil Lessons through Spanish
100 frases en Lengua Tsotsil para principiantes

Books

Tzotzil Clause Structure

Winnebago

Online

Hoocąk Waaziija Haci
Winnebago Grammar
The Encyclopedia of Hočąk (Winnebago) Mythology

YouTube Channels

Ho-Chunk Renaissance
Hoocak Academy

Books

Hocak Teaching Materials Volume 2
Four Gospels, Acts, Genesis, & Exodus (Chapters 19 & 20)

Zapoteco

Online

A Descriptive Grammar of San Bartolome Zoogocho Zapotec
The Grammatical Hierarchy of Isthmus Zapotec
A Preliminary Sketch of the Zapotec Language
Gramática Zapoteca (en español)
A Coatlan-Loxicha Zapotec Grammar
A Sketch of Mixtepec Zapotec Grammar
Mitla Zapotec Grammar
Zapotec Talking Dictionaries
TriColleges Libraries- Most of these aren't accessible without a student login, but they're included anyway due to the amount of resources available to peruse
Preserving the Language of the Valley Zapotecs: The Orthography Question
Colonial Zapotec Language
Zapotec Language Project

YouTube Channels

The Sound of the Isthmus Zapotec language
Learn Zapotec
Cali Chiu? Valley Zapotec Course

Books

Mitla Zapotec Texts in English, Spanish, and Zapotec
Isthmus Zapotec <> English Dictionary (eBook)
Cali Chiu? A Course in Valley Zapotec
Cali Chiu? A Course in Valley Zapotec, Vol 2
Cali Chiu? A Course in Valley Zapotec, Vol 3
Quiegolani Zapotec Syntax: A Principles and Parameters Account

Zuni

Online

Zuni Grammar
UoNM Materials Collection
Word List
Dictionary
Portions of the New Testament
Conversational Phrases

YouTube Channels

Numbers
Collection of Videos

Books

Zuni Grammar