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	NPS Archeology Program: Kennewick Man
		Sahaptin distinguishes two varieties of mule deer as yáamash (the Rocky Mountain mule deer) and tl'álk (the fl-tailed deer of the Cascade Mountains), as well as the white-tailed deer, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope (Hunn and Selam 1990:139-141).
		It is noteworthy that Coyote (spilyáy) is the Sahaptin "culture hero," not Raven, as is characteristic of cultures to the north and west (Jacobs 1929, 1934; Beavert 1974).
		Firstly, the Numic languages are distributed in a broad fan-like sweep of territory between southeastern California across Nevada and Utah to southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado, with the Comanche (a Shoshonean-speaking group) established on the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains.
	www.cr.nps.gov /archeology/kennewick/HUNN.HTM (8917 words)

	Canku Ota - Decermber 15, 2001 - Tribes Race to Save Dying Languages
		Sahaptin is the language of tribes along the Columbia River east of The Dalles.
		U.S. policy damaged languages The original languages of America were dealt a near fatal blow in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the United States forced generations of tribal children to attend boarding schools where they were isolated from their families and threatened with beatings and other violence for speaking their languages.
		Language can be taught in school, but teachers say their best students are their own families who naturally pick up words and phrases while practicing other tribal traditions.
	www.turtletrack.org /Issues01/Co12152001/CO_12152001_Dying_Languages.htm (1780 words)

	Some Pacific Northwest Native Language Names for the Sasquatch Phenomenon
		I prefer to speak of the lack of relatability among languages in those cases in which it is not possible to demonstrate genetic relationship.
		Of the languages and language families mentioned here, I believe that Sahaptin (a member of the Sahaptian language family), Chinookan, Molala, and Tsimshian can all be shown to be distantly related members of the larger far-flung Penutian grouping.
		The modern villagers of Klemtu are, in the main, descendants of emigrants from the deserted Coast Tsimshian village of [disju] or Kitisoo on the south- west of Princess Royal Island midway betweep Kent Inlet and Dallain Point and from the old Xaihais Kwakiutl village of [qhaynath] or Kynoch.
	www.rfthomas.clara.net /papers/rigsby.html (1006 words)

	Sahaptin Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Virginia took care of Alex for several years, seeing his dream of reviving the language and worrying about them losing their values and heritage.
		Circa 1985 Virginia R. BEAVERT of the Yakama's was the Coordinator and research writer of the Sahaptin Yakama Dialect Practical Dictionary.
		Taytnapam, Naxchiish, Klickitat, Skiinpam, Pshwanapam, Cowlitz, Wanapum, Palus, Wayampam, Columbia River dialects and Umatilla and Warm Springs languages of Oregon.
	www.oregonpioneers.com /yakama.htm (267 words)

	Nez Percé - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Probably the best known leader of the Nez Perce was Chief Joseph, who led his people in their struggle to retain their identity in the face of American encroachments on their land.
		The Nez Perce language is a branch of the Sahaptian family, which also includes several dialects of Sahaptin (note the spellings, -ian vs. -in).
		The Nez Perce tribe is endeavoring to reintroduce the language into native usage through a revitalization program, though at present the future of the Nez Perce language is far from assured.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Nez_Perce (903 words)

	Penutian languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Penutian is a proposed grouping of language families that includes many Native American languages of western North America, predominantly spoken at one time in Washington, Oregon, and California.
		The name is based on the words meaning 'two' in the Wintuan, Maiduan, and Yokutsan languages (which is pronounced something like [pen]) and the Utian languages (which is pronounced something like [uti]).
		A number of the languages are no longer spoken leaving researchers with no new data to work with.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Penutian (715 words)

	Wordwizard Clubhouse - What is the origin of Palouse? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sahaptin: (also spelled Shahaptin) A group of North American Indian tribes inhabiting what is now southeastern Washington, northeastern Oregon, and west-central Idaho, in the basin of the Columbia River and its tributaries, and speaking related Sahaptian languages of Penutian stock.
		The traditional neighbors of the Nez Perce people to the west were speakers of Sahaptin, a language genetically related to the Nez Perce.
		The Sahaptin language includes three dialect clusters: the Northwest cluster (Kittitas, Upper Cowlitz, Yakima, Klickitat), the Columbia River Cluster (Tenino, Tygh, Celilo, Rock Creek, John Day River, Umatilla), and the Northern cluster (Walla Walla, Snake River, Priest Rapids, Palouse).
	www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19319 (357 words)

	Umatilla, Walla Walla & Cayuse Language
		The Umatilla and Walla Walla dialects of the Sahaptin language were very different from the Cayuse language isolate.
		Now that the Cayuse language is extinct, save about 350 documented words, most Cayuse descendants who speak a native language speak lower or upper Nez Perce.
		Those who speak Umatilla as a first language are a handful of adults, and the rest elders.
	www.trailtribes.org /umatilla/language.htm (160 words)

	Search Results for "Sahaptin"
		They were closely associated with the Nez Perce and spoke a language belonging...
		...Native American languages, languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants.
		A number of the Native American languages that were spoken...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Sahaptin (179 words)

	Sahaptian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sahaptian (also Sahaptianic, Sahaptin, Shahaptian) is a sub-grouping of two languages of the Plateau Penutian family spoken by Native American peoples in the Columbia Plateau region of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the northwestern United States.
		Sahaptin has considerably greater internal diversity with several different varieties.
		Note that the terms Sahaptian (the family) and Sahaptin (the language) have often been confused and used interchangeably in the literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sahaptian_languages (126 words)

	JLA - Contents of Volume 6, Number 1, June 1996
		Over 1000 place-names in the Sahaptin Indian language of northwestern North America are analyzed for syntactic, semantic, and distributional regularities.
		Sahaptin place-names very frequently are descriptive of biological and topographic features of sites.
		Quantitative analysis of the spatial distribution of place-names unexpectedly reveals a striking correlation between place-name density and population density which holds for a sample of 14 languages.
	www.aaanet.org /sla/jla/toc/toc6_1.htm (669 words)

	Small Things Count for Big Things\| Professional Development \| NW Education
		Myra Shawaway, manager of the tribal Culture and Heritage Department, was born in Warm Springs of a Paiute father and raised by a grandmother who spoke Sahaptin, the language of the Warm Springs people.
		We had to start from the bottom up because there is no information on a curriculum for the Sahaptin language.
		We could not generate enough interest in the community in language classes, but now we're seeing that as the children learn in school, the grandparents and parents are also beginning to use their native language.
	www.nwrel.org /nwedu/summer00/small.html (539 words)

	Yakama Sahaptin Language (Yakima, Klickitat, Klikitat, Qwu'lh-hwai-pum)
		Yakama is a Penutian language of the Western Plateau.
		Some linguists consider Yakama to be one dialect of a single Sahaptin language, and others consider it to be one of three or four distinct Sahaptin languages.
		Glossary of Yakama Sahaptin nouns from Virginia Beavert's 1975 dictionary.
	www.native-languages.org /yakama.htm (281 words)

	The U of MT -- Mansfield Library LangFing Penutian, pt. 2
		You have reached the second page on Penutian languages, which is just one part of the "Language Finger" homepage, which is an index by language to the holdings of the Mansfield Library of The University of Montana.
		Languages belonging to this sub- branch include Nez Perce, Tenino, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakima.
		There are also a couple of other Wintun languages, so it may also be regarded as a sub-branch of Penutian.
	www.lib.umt.edu /guide/lang/penut2h.htm (596 words)

	Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI)
		The class will be useful to anyone who is learning a language and trying to improve their skills and knowledge.
		The practice which we will get in analyzing the words of the language, and understanding how the grammar works, will also be useful to anyone trying to write curriculum or materials for a language class.
		Some of the class will be conducted in a language other than English or your language to help you experience a language learning situation that approximates that of your students.
	babel.uoregon.edu /nili/classdescription.html (1368 words)

	University of Oregon, College of Education : :
		Sapsik’walá is a word composed of the verb "to teach" plus the agentive "one who," derived from the Sahaptin language.
		The language is called Sahaptin (ends with in), in contrast to the Sahaptian (ends with ian) language family.
		The Sahaptian language family is purported to belong to the greater Penutian macro phylum, but this has not been not very well investigated and thus remains more hypothetical than demonstrated.
	education.uoregon.edu /feature.htm?id=764 (399 words)

	Ichishkiin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This language is going extinct quickly as each elder person that speaks the language passes on.
		I was born with the language, speak the language, which qualified me the position, as the Sahaptin Language Instructor, along with Dallas Winishut and Suzie Slockash.
		The Language Department Staff is getting extensive on going training to be professional in presenting our program, in teaching, saving the language for future use, and curriculum and lesson plans for teaching now and the future teachers of our language.
	www.uatuahine.hawaii.edu /hana/si98/arlita/Ichishkiin.html (357 words)

	Columbia River Sahaptin Language (Umatilla, Imatalam, Tenino, Ichishkiin, Warm Springs, Celilo)
		Columbia River Sahaptin Language (Umatilla, Imatalam, Tenino, Ichishkiin, Warm Springs, Celilo)
		Umatilla-Tenino Sahaptin is a Penutian language of the Western Plateau.
		Some linguists consider Umatilla-Tenino to be one dialect of a single Sahaptin language, and others consider it to be one of three or four distinct Sahaptin languages.
	www.native-languages.org /umatilla.htm (337 words)

	CTUIR History & Culture
		This large body of people belonged to the Sahaptin Language group and each tribe spoke a distinct and separate dialect of Sahaptin.
		The original Cayuse language, which is extinct today but for a few words spoken by a few individuals on the Umatilla Reservation, is closely related to the Mollala Indian language of the Oregon Cascade Mountains.
		Over the decades, our native languages have gradually been lost as the primary means of communication.
	www.umatilla.nsn.us /hist3.html (3933 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages Issue 29.
		The Northwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) will be holding its Summer Institute "From Language Learner to Language Teacher" at the University of Oregon July 5-21, 2006, including a Master-Apprentice workshop led by Leanne Hinton, July 6-8.
		The Institute is a setting where the unique situations of the region's various Tribal language programs are respected, and we seek to provide skills and materials that will enhance your own language revitalization efforts.
		This method of language learning is a great way to create new speakers of a language when only a few Elder speakers remain, and to pass along traditional values and customs in a natural setting.
	www.ogmios.org /299.htm (770 words)

	American Indian Collections at the APS
		RIGSBY, BRUCE J. A Short practical dictionary of the Yakima Sahaptin language; myth texts; n.d.
		Vocabulary of the language of the Salish or the Flat Head Nation, inhabiting the sources of the Columbia [n.d.].
		Typed D. Data relating to the Salish languages, their distribution, and the distributions of neighboring languages.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/guides/indians/info/s.htm (1239 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sahaptin Indians
		Aside from the Spaulding publications already noted the most valuable contributions to the study of the Nez Percé language are a grammar by Father Cataldo and a dictionary by Father Van Gorp.
		The most important study of a cognate language is probably the "Grammar and Dictionary of the Yakama Language" by the Oblate Father Pandosy (see Y
		Affairs for 1854 (Washington, 1855); IDEM, Narrative and final Report in Pacific R.R. Reports, XII, B. 1 (Washington, 1860); VAN GORP, Dictionary of the Numipu or Nez Percé Language (St. Ignatius, Montana, 1895); WYETH, Correspondence and Journals, 1831-6; Sources of the History of Oregon, I, pts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13326a.htm (1485 words)

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		Language and the Culture History of North America.
		These articles are followed by lengthy descriptive Grammatical Sketches (including phonology, morphology and syntax) of 12 native languages including Central Alaskan Yupik, an Eskimoan language; Thompson, a Salishan language; Sahaptin, a Sahptian language.
		Additionally, there is a lengthy classication of the Native Languages of North America (with a map in the back pocket of the volume), a table of the status (number of speakers) of the languages as of 1995, a bibliography of sources by language, and a general bibliography; well-indexed.
	faculty.washington.edu /alvin/natlan.htm (465 words)

	Sahaptin Language tape archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Eugene Hunn, Anthropology Sahaptin Language tape archive I was given six hours of audiotape recorded in 1964-65 by Martha Hardy, a retired school teacher living in Packwood, Washington.
		The recordings are of discussions she organized with Mary Kiona, a Taidnapam Indian elder then in her 90s.
		Mary Kiona spoke in her native Sahaptin; her daughter and granddaughter translated.
	www.washington.edu /cartah/projects/00fall/hunn2.html (118 words)

	Canku Ota - NA Nation Links
		The Yavapai Indians descended from the Hohokam culture and have a language similar to the Havasupai and Hualapai Indians.
		The aims of the Foundation are: to raise awareness of endangered languages, both inside and outside the communities where they are spoken, through all channels and media;...
		IPOLA—the Institute for the Preservation of the Original Languages of the Americas— works with indigenous communities to preserve and perpetuate the languages of the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
	www.turtletrack.org /Links/NANations/CO_NANationLinks_VZ.htm (1289 words)

	Spirit Cave & Kennewick
		Even if Kennewick Man spoke a non-Penutian language, historic Sahaptin-speakers might have inherited their "cultural core" of knowledge, belief, and practice with respect to their environmental relationships from the earlier group to which Kennewick Man belonged.
		A "cultural memory" of events long pre-dating Kennewick Man may be embodied in the Sahaptin language.
		Ethnographic and historic evidence suggests the area is within the traditional use area of the five tribes--Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, and the Wanapum Band--claiming cultural affiliation with the remains.
	www.archaeology.org /online/news/kennewick5.html (763 words)

	1994 Historic Preservation Fund Grants
		Instruction is built on a sixteen-week period in the summer when ten Master/Apprentice teams spend twenty hours a week speaking their respective languages in a variety of contexts.
		Provide a two-week Salish language camp for approximately 100 participants, followed by an additional two weeks of advanced, more intensive study for fourteen carefully chosen "language trainees," who will work in a mentor-student environment with seven Salish language instructors.
		Continue efforts to preserve the Klallam language by developing a written body of Klallam literature based on transcribed interviews with tribal elders, conducting college-level classes in the Klallam language, and sending four people to an annual language preservation training conference.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/HPG/tribal/grants/fy94.html (2159 words)

	Virginia D. Hymes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Later, opportunities arose at Harvard, Berkeley and Penn, though not as a student, to learn to observe child-rearing practices, to work on a child language acquisition project, and to work on a project in comparative ethnography of speaking.
		When I returned to graduate school at Penn in the early seventies it was to prepare to work on the Sahaptin language at Warm Springs reservation in Oregon.
		Beginning in 1975, teaching in the Folklore Department at Penn, I began to work on oral narratives, and their analysis as a kind of poetry.
	www.virginia.edu /~anthro/vhymes.html (251 words)

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