This document is an attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of all published and unpublished materials relevant to the Lakota (Teton Dakota or Teton Sioux) language with comments for most items. The period covered is from 1887 to 1987, the date of the publication of James Pilling's "Bibliography of the Siouan Languages" (1887). Items in…

Reasons are given for the idea that Hueyapan (Morelos) Nahuatl has an underlying velar nasal with lip rounding phoneme which never has the surface reflex of a rounded velar nasal allophone, but occurs phonetically as a velar nasal allophone or a labial dental voiced allophone or disappears. (SCC)

The original text, literal, and free translations of a story are examined for dramatic, phonological, and grammatical style. Terseness is compensated for by variation of utterance; literary characteristics are repetition, ellipses, flashbacks, and dependent sentences. (MSE)

The Cree and Cherokee syllabary systems were designed by gifted amateurs, such as Sequoyah, who received no funding or significant institutional support. Although he had influential kinsmen in his matrilineage, his project encountered active, widespread opposition from his contemporaries prior to its validation in 1821. Sequoyah found it necessary…

This lesson book of the Karuk language, for elementary school students, teaches the Karuk "unifon" alphabet and some pronunciation. The lesson book includes exercises to familiarize children with animals and their Karuk names. The exercises also encourage children to learn Karuk names for colors and parts of the body. There is a legend,…

Ten grammars of indigenous Bolivian languages are presented in these two volumes of Bolivian Indian Grammars. The data were gathered and analyzed by members of the Bolivian Branch of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, which has carried on linguistic investigations in Bolivia since 1955. The grammars are presented in the tagmemic model of Pike…

This three-part volume, originally published in 1874 (?) and reprinted at the request of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in Toronto, is a typical traditional presentation of the language of the Ojibwa Indians (spelled here "Ojebway" and sometimes referred to as "Chippewa"). The parts of speech (nine) are presented in…

This elementary language text, designed for children in a bilingual Koyuk-English program, contains one story about the daily life of a family in Koyuk, Alaska. The material is presented in alternating pages of Koyuk and the English translation, with many illustrations depicting events in the story. (LG)

In many schools throughout the United States, teachers are baffled by the child who does not know enough English to participate in the classroom, who "just sits there." In some localities the language he hears and speaks at home is an American Indian tongue; in others it is Spanish or Italian or Polish. The Choctaw Bilingual Education…

A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO THE COGNITIVE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE WAS PRESENTED IN THIS RESEARCH ON THE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE OF THE PAPAGO INDIANS OF ARIZONA. IN THIS STUDY, THE COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF A LANGUAGE WERE CALLED "THEMES OF THE LANGUAGE" AND THE COGNITIVE PATTERNS OF NONVERBAL CULTURE WERE CALLED "THEMES OF THE CULTURE."…

This analysis of the Nambiquara languages spoken by American Indians living in Brazil focuses on the phonological systems, the phonological reflexes, Proto-Nambiquara vocabulary and non-cognate vocabulary, and geographical distribution. Comparisons are made with published sources. (SW)

This is a preliminary research-oriented bibliography on the Hopi language. All known items, through mid-1976, are included, with an annotation for each item sketching its nature and/or possible value. (Author/RM)

Deals with patterns of limited borrowing in Tarahumara, or Raramuri, a Uto-Aztecan language in northern Mexico. Probes the sociolinguistic constraints that have apparently caused Raramuri to have borrowed surprisingly little from Spanish. (Author/RM)

Revised version of a paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Salish Languages, Bellingham, Washington, August 1972; research supported by the Research Council of the University of Massachusetts, the Society of Sigma Xi, and the American Council of Learned Societies. (DD)

Research supported by grants from the University of Arizona and the American Philosophical Society. (RS)