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	Shawnee language, alphabet and pronunciation
		Shawnee is a Central Algonquin language with about 200 speakers in central and northeastern Oklahoma.
		The earliest known text in and about the Shawnee language was A Story of the Shawnee, by George Blue Jacket, which was published in Wapaughonnetta on 29 October 1829.
		Abenaki, Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cree, Delaware, Míkmaq, Montagnais, Naskapi, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Shawnee
	www.omniglot.com /writing/shawnee.php (173 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Shawnee (tribe)
		The Shawnee language is part of the Algonquian family and is closely related to Mesquakie-Sauk (Sac and Fox) and Kickapoo.
		Pursuant to a Secretarial Election authorized by the Acting Muskogee Area Director on March 2, 1999, the attached Amendment to the Constitution of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma was submitted to the qualified voters of the tribe on June 17, 1999.
		The Shawnee of South Carolina, who included the Piqua and Hathawekela divisions of the tribe, were known to the early settlers of that state as Savannahs, that being nearly the form of the name in use among the neighboring Muskhogean tribes.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shawnee-%28tribe%29 (1909 words)

	City of Shawnee - History
		Shawnee is named for the Shawnee Indians that were relocated here in the late 1820s.
		The Shawnee Methodist Mission and Manual Labor School is established in Turner, Wyandotte County, in 1830 by Reverend Thomas Johnson and moves to its current location, at 6125 W. 61st Street, in 1839.
		The Shawnees surrender 1,600,000 acres in exchange for $829,000 (less than $1.00/acre) and 200,000 acres to be distributed in individual allotments.
	www.cityofshawnee.org /ShawneeTown/history.htm (2062 words)

	AT&T Worldnet Service - Directory
		Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Culture - http://www.native-languages.org/shawnee.htm
		Vocabularies of the Shawanoese and Wyandott Languages - http://www.wyandot.org/lang1.html
		Presenting phonology, orthography, and wordlists in the greater context of Shawnee culture and ethnohistory.
	www.att.net /cgi-bin/webdrill?catkey=gwd/Top/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Algic/Shawnee (214 words)

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		There are two basic kinds of shaggy-dog stories: a long-drawn-out circumstantial story concerning an inconsequential happening that impresses the teller as humorous but the hearer as boring and pointless, or a similar humorous story whose humor lies in the pointlessness or irrelevance of the punch line.
		At times in their history the Shawnee have been an extremely scattered people, but they seem to be originally from the Ohio River Valley.
		The advance of white settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries drove the tribe westward, and the Shawnee eventually settled in three separate groups in Oklahoma.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /1004/dictionary_men102004.asp (1120 words)

	Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Tribe (Shawano, Savannah, Sewanee, Shawnees)
		Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Tribe (Shawano, Savannah, Sewanee, Shawnees)
		Language: Shawnee is an Algonquian language spoken by 200 people in Oklahoma.
		Shawnee and Wyandot wordlists, compiled and introduced by a 19th century Indian advocate.
	www.native-languages.org /shawnee.htm (303 words)

	The Shawnee Sun: The First Indian-language Periodical Published in the United States, by Douglas McMurtrie, November ...
		But Meeker was not only the editor and the printer-he was also the inventor of a method by which the sounds of the Shawnee language (and of several other Indian languages) might be represented by the letters of the English alphabet.
		He simply took the letters for sounds that did not occur in the given Indian tongue and arbitrarily assigned to them sounds that needed to be expressed.[5] Thus, for the Shawnee, he gave to b the sound of th in thin, and to i the sound of a in far.
		Baptist Mission Press.” Not being familiar with the Shawnee language, I am unable to give any account of the subject matter of the four principal articles on the two pages, but my guess is that much of it consisted of didactic Baptist theology.
	www.kshs.org /publicat/khq/1933/33_4_mcmurtrie.htm (1758 words)

	Shawnee - Ethnos - Books about the Shawnee People
		The Shawnee are a migratory Native American people originally from the Ohio-Pennsylvania area.
		The Shawnee leader Tecumseh attempted to unite the eastern tribes against expansion of white settlement.
		After the failure of that effort, the U.S. government forcibly relocated the Shawnee to Oklahoma, where they currently number approximately 14,000.
	www.almudo.com /ethnos/Shawnee.htm (161 words)

	Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 43, no. 3
		This article presents a classification of the different categories of noun plurals in Shawnee and explains the historical origins of the system.
		The fact that Creole Arabic has never been effectively integrated into a linguistic subdiscipline has had the deleterious effect of limiting the contribution it has made to Arabic and creole studies, in particular, and to contact linguistics, in general.
		In this article, aspects of Creole Arabic are shown to be of fundamental relevance to such issues as the contrast between mixed languages as opposed to creole languages, the definition of the minimal linguistic attributes of creole languages, and the cha r acterization of what constitutes a creole language.
	www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v43-3.html (309 words)

	Shawnee. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.
		The Shawnee figured prominently in the resistance to white settlement of the Ohio Valley in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
		Back-formation from obsolete Shawnese, from Shawnee shaawanooki, those of the south, Shawnee.
	www.bartleby.com /61/42/S0324200.html (117 words)

	Shawnee Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Tribe (Shawano, Savannah,...
		Language, culture, history and genealogy of the Shawnee Indians.
		SHAWNEE LANGUAGE by BlueStar Shawnee Language Vowels: i as in weed a as in papa o as in boat e as in may '--a glottal stop.
	www.mccoy-pottery.us /browse/Shawnee-Language.html (146 words)

	Edinformatics -- Education for the Information Age
		Shawnee - Ethnologue entry for the endangered language.
		Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Culture - Language, culture, history, and genealogy.
		Shawnee Traditions: Language - Presenting phonology, orthography, and wordlists in the greater context of Shawnee culture and ethnohistory.
	www.edinformatics.com /cgi-bin/apexec.pl?etype=odp&submit2=Search&submit=Search&passurl=/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Algic/Shawnee (275 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Shawnee language is a Central Algonquian language spoken in parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma by only around 200 Shawnee, making it very endangered.
		It is closely related to the other Algonquian languages Mesquakie-Sauk (Sac and Fox) and Kickapoo.
		Shawnee has four short vowels, (where and are phonetically and) and four long vowels,.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Shawnee_language (232 words)

	C. F. Voegelin Papers, American Philosophical Society
		Shawnee Laws, are archived in the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University and are indexed in A Catalog of the C.F. and F.M. Voegelin Archives of the Languages of the World, a copy of which is available in the manuscripts department of the APS.
		"Shawnee Episodes" includes thirteen autobiographical sketches of informant Nancy Williams, which were published by Voegelin in 1953 in an article titled "From FL [From Language] to TL [Target Language], Autobiography of a Woman." Files contain handwritten notes and typescripts of Shawnee transcriptions and English translations of the episodes.
		Shawnee Laws is, according to the introduction, a "semiformalized text setting forth...standards of conduct for human relationships and...the mutual obligations between men and supernaturals." The handwritten title page states that the Laws were collected in the field in notebooks (see Ser.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/v/voegelin.htm (2707 words)

	Shawnee traditions, language, culture and ethnohistory
		The author is not involved in developing an academic career, building a reputation, or expressing any one point of view with respect to the Shawnee, nor is he a member of any religious cult or group that would wish to exploit information on the Shawnee for personal benefit.
		The author was involved as a linguist and anthropologist in working with individual Shawnee many years ago and published his Ph.D. dissertation on the Shawnee.
		Currently, the author does not have an academic position involving his expertise (such as it is) on the Shawnee, but is a teacher of English in Taiwan.
	www.shawnee-traditions.com (706 words)

	Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages
		We are a small non-profit organization dedicated to the survival of Native American languages, particularly through the use of Internet technology.
		Actually, Native American languages do not belong to a single Amerindian family, but 25-30 small ones; they are usually discussed together because of the small numbers of natives speaking most of these languages and how little is known about many of them.
		These are linguistically diverse languages deserving of individual attention, and it is very difficult to make accurate generalizations about them as a group.
	www.native-languages.org (1207 words)

	Profiles of Native Language Education Programs Education Programs
		The instructor is fluent in the Shawnee language and has permission from the tribe to teach the language.
		Shawnee children are also allowed to participate as long as they are members of the Shawnee tribe.
		The Shawnee Language Preservation Project has received help from a University of Kansas linguist, tribal government leaders, fluent native speakers, and volunteers.
	www.sedl.org /pubs/lc05/shawnee.html (209 words)

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		Trained as an anthropologist at Berkeley under A.L. Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Carl Voegelin spent the majority of his career as a structural linguist specializing in Algonquian languages, including Delaware, Potawatomi, Fox, Menominee, and Shawnee, and on the Seneca, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Blackfoot (Siksika).
		Language and Culture: From Ethnolinguistics and Sociolinguistics to Cognitive Ethnography)
		Languages of the Blackfoot, Delaware, Ojibwa, Pottowatomi, Seneca, and Shawnee are represented.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/v/voegelin.xml (2625 words)

	Cheyenne Language Web Site
		It is a member of the large Algonquian language family of North America which includes other languages such as Blackfoot, Arapaho, Cree, Ojibwa, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Menomini, Fox, Massachusett, Delaware, Shawnee, Micmac, and Naskapi.
		The U.S. government was unable to eradicate the Cheyenne language through its campaigns of military genocide against Cheyennes and its policies of cultural and language assimilation at boarding schools.
		Wise Cheyennes today resist the threatened death of their language, and are trying to find some cures at this stage of culture and language change.
	www.geocities.com /cheyenne_language (1152 words)

	ApplyESL.com - St. Gregory's University (TLC:SEI), The Language Company: Shawnee English Institute - School Profile
		Founded in 1983, The Language Company (TLC) is a group of private language schools that has provided superior English instruction and cultural activities to more than 30,000 students from around the world.
		The Shawnee English Institute sits on the 75-acre, beautifully-landscaped St. Gregory's University campus in the comfortable, friendly town of Shawnee, Oklahoma.
		Home to 35,000 residents, Shawnee is rich in Midwestern cultural heritage with large cowboy and Native American influences infused in the spirit of the town.
	www.applyesl.com /un/school/Sel,0,0,011,0117900 (1209 words)

	The Shawnee Sun: The First Indian-language Periodical Published in the United States, by Douglas McMurtrie, November ...
		But Meeker was not only the editor and the printer-he was also the inventor of a method by which the sounds of the Shawnee language (and of several other Indian languages) might be represented by the letters of the English alphabet.
		He simply took the letters for sounds that did not occur in the given Indian tongue and arbitrarily assigned to them sounds that needed to be expressed.[5] Thus, for the Shawnee, he gave to b the sound of th in thin, and to i the sound of a in far.
		Baptist Mission Press." Not being familiar with the Shawnee language, I am unable to give any account of the subject matter of the four principal articles on the two pages, but my guess is that much of it consisted of didactic Baptist theology.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1933/33_4_mcmurtrie.htm (1816 words)

	American Language Reprint Series
		Presenting 144 words from a language of the Eastern Siouan group most closely related to Catawba, A Vocabulary of Woccon is a valuable primary source for a tribe known to history from only the scantest of records.
		The most significant treatment of the language(s) spoken by the Siouan tribes of Virginia is the 1883 article "The Tutelo Tribe and Language" by Horatio Hale.
		This vocabulary was first printed as an appendix to Ridout’s letters in 1890, and is one of the earliest major vocabularies of the Shawnee language.
	www.evolpub.com /ALR/ALRbooks.html (2998 words)

	Shawnee Language Training Aids
		Your business will be added to our database of over 18 million U.S. businesses and will appear under Shawnee Language Training Aids.
		We cannot add your listing to this category unless Language Training Aids is a significant portion of your business.
		Shawnee at a Glance has over 1400 business categories and subcategories to choose from, so please select your heading carefully to ensure we list your business accurately.
	www.shawneeataglance.com /list_language_training_aids.htm (355 words)

	Native American Language Preservation: How You Can Help
		Native Languages of the Americas is a Minnesota non-profit corporation (federal tax exempt status 501-C-3), dedicated to the preservation and promotion of endangered American Indian languages.
		Even if your language is on the verge of dying out and none of the young people seem interested in learning it, if you record it for later generations, then young people in the future may come to realize its importance and you will have given them the tools to revive the language again.
		You don't need to be fluent in an Indian language to make them more available to language learners--you just need to have access to dictionaries, texts, tapes, native speakers, or a good library and be good enough with languages in general to transcribe and/or type words in a foreign language.
	www.native-languages.org /help.htm (1343 words)

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		This family arose from the French and Indian War period, proliferated during the American Revolution, Fought the Americans who usurped their homelands, became involved in the War of 1812, suffered through Indian Removal, became successful Kansan farmers, were run out for their efforts, then settled for good in Indian Territory.
		Now they reside in the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Shawnee Tribe and the Shawnee Tribe.
		Follow our progress as we re-establish contacts with family members, other Shawnees and the many history buffs who follow this fascinating saga.
	shawnee-bluejacket.com (656 words)

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		Find out about the Hotels in Shawnee Before you Book.
		Shawnee Language and the Shawnee Indian Culture Speichern
		Vocabularies of the Shawanoese and Wyandott Languages Speichern
	www.excite.de /directory/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Languages/Natural/Algic/Shawnee (140 words)

	Language names in their own scripts
		The table below shows native/local names for languages in their own scripts.
		You can click on the language names with the speaker icon next to them to hear how they are pronounced and on the English names of the languages to find out more about them.
		If you can provide an audio recording of the name of your native language(s), please send it to:
	www.omniglot.com /language/names.htm (121 words)

	Chetßn - Pamela Faye - Adobe Reader PDF eBook - Download Now!
		Ch?tan is a Native American historic fiction novel, narrated through the spirit voice of a Shawnee Elder.
		If you love Native American culture, hear the songbirds voice of the Shawnee language as it floats with the touch of a feather from turning pages.
		This story lifts from the history pages of time, the characters are fictitious, but Native American culture will forever carry on the beauty of a timeless tale.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/104491-ebook.htm (904 words)

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