Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Timbisha language


Related Topics

  
  Death Valley, California Encyclopedia Article @ Narrowly.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A thousand years later the nomadic Timbisha (formerly called "Shoshone" and also known as "Panamint" or "Koso") moved into the area and hunted game and gathered mesquite beans along with pinyon pine nuts.
Several families of Timbisha still live within the Park at Furnace Creek (Timbisha is the Native name of the village).
Timbisha, from tümpisa, "rock paint", refers to both the valley and the village located at the mouth of Furnace Creek.
www.narrowly.org /encyclopedia/Death_Valley,_California   (5620 words)

  
 Timbisha language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Timbisha language (also called Panamint and spelled Tümpisa) is the language of the Native American people who inhabited the region in and around Death Valley, California in late prehistoric times.
Timbisha is one of the Central Numic languages of the Numic branch of Uto-Aztecan.
Timbisha was formerly spoken in the region between the Sierra Nevada mountains of eastern California and the region just to the east of Death Valley in Nevada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timbisha_language   (636 words)

  
 InfoDome - California Indians and Their Reservations
Their language is related to some other languages spoken in northwestern California, but also of the same language family of peoples in interior Alaska and Canada, and the Apache and Navajo in the Southwest.
Although their language is a subgroup of the Uto-Aztecan language family, which is widespread throughout the state, the Tubatulabal language is very different from neighboring languages of this type.
Their language is not one of the usual California languages, but is of the Algonquian language family, related to languages spoken throughout large areas of eastern North America.
infodome.sdsu.edu /research/guides/calindians/calinddictty.shtml   (4530 words)

  
 Linguist List - Book Information
Timbisha (Panamint) is a moribund member of the Central Numic branch of the Numic language family of the Uto-Aztecan stock.
Timbisha is related to the Shoshone language of Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, and more to the Comanche language of Oklahoma, but it has features that are archaic within Central Numic, such as the retention of a phonemic velar nasal.
Timbisha has an underlying obstruent system which consists of voiceless stops /p, t, k, kw/, two voiceless fricatives /s, h/, and a voiceless affricate /ts/, but a surface phonetic system that includes voiced and voiceless stops, fricatives, and affricates in all the places of articulation of the underlying stops and affricates.
linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=17245   (332 words)

  
 ICT [2000/08/16]  Timbisha Shoshone one step closer to land base in Death Valley
The Timbisha Shoshone have long endured the inhospitable climate and terrain as they have maintained a presence in what is now the park for several thousand years.
Timbisha Tribal Administrator Barbara Durham says the interpretive center is particularly important to the tribe.
The Timbisha effort was bolstered by support from several other tribes who signed a resolution and held demonstrations for the tribe.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=705   (846 words)

  
 Archive Timbisha Shoshone Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Dreams of the Timbisha Shoshone people for a homeland, a base for financial self-reliance, where they can preserve language and traditional culture and values, are sustained in a draft law before US Congress.
Dreams of the Timbisha Shoshone for a homeland, a base for financial self-reliance, where they can preserve language and traditional culture and values, are sustained in a bill before Congress...
Attorneys for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley are appealing directly to Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt to halt the Briggs mine in eastern California, two miles from Death Valley National Park.
www.timbisha.org /News-TimbishaShoshone_Archives.htm   (1070 words)

  
 Uto-Aztecan languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Uto-Aztecan languages are a Native American language family.
The Uto-Aztecan languages are found from the Great Basin of the western United States (Oregon, Idaho, Utah, California, Nevada, Arizona), through Mexico.
Classic Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, and its modern descendants are part of the Uto-Aztecan family.
uto-aztecan-languages.iqnaut.net   (89 words)

  
 [No title]
In 1994, as part of the California Desert Protection Act, Congress recognized the hardships the Timbisha have endured by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to study and identify lands that would be suitable for a reservation for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe.
A suitability study was conducted on a government-to-government basis with representatives of the Timbisha Tribe and the Department of the Interior.
The land that is central to the Timbisha's present-day existence is the 300-acre parcel at Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park.
www.doi.gov /ocl/2000/s2102.htm   (2001 words)

  
 The Timbisah Shoshone Tribal Homeland Report
The Timbisha have an immense attachment to the land and a strong sense of responsibility for it.
Traditionally, the Timbisha families would move into the mountains during the hot summer months and return to the mild valley floor in winter.
The process of Timbisha dislocation began in the 1850's and accelerated through the 1870's and 1880's when homesteaders and ranchers moved into the area to supply mining camps and other settlements that served the miners.
www3.iwvisp.com /blm/report/intro-02.htm   (2599 words)

  
 Prehistory and History of the Timbisha Shoshone
Though the Vanyume spoke the same language as the Serrano to the south, each village was autonomous and not part of the Serrano "tribe." Indeed, the so-called Serrano were autonomous villages like the Vanyume and were not a tribe in the classic definition.
Linguistic evidence indicates that the Panamint, the ancestors of the Timbisha Shoshone, arrived in Death Valley within the last millennium, though there are many claims that they arrived earlier.
Babbit was unsuccessful, and in September, 1998 the tribe reached an agreement with the Department of the Interior to establish a Timbisha Shoshone reservation.
www.fourdir.com /prehistory_and_history_of_the_ti.htm   (2696 words)

  
 1992 Historic Preservation Fund Grants
Document the Sugcestun language spoken by the elders of Port Graham, prepare and institute a school-based curriculum using a "speaking MacIntosh computer," and initiate weekly adult language immersion classes in Sugcestun.
Videotape the cultural activities of three tribally sponsored language immersion camps for Karuk children and their families where traditional skills including basketry and fishing techniques will be taught.
Develop curriculum for one semester of Chickasaw language instruction for preschool and elementary school children to be taught during the regular school year by three certified teachers who speak Chickasaw fluently.
www.cr.nps.gov /hps/hpg/tribal/grants/fy92.html   (1679 words)

  
 Marie Severin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Timbisha ("red rock facepaint") are a Native Americans in the United States people who have lived in the Death Valley region of North America for over 1000 years.
The Hebrew language version of the name of the city and the tower, Babel, is attributed in Gen. 11:9 to the verb balal, which means to confuse or confound in Hebrew.
This was the case with Hebrew language, and with Basque language (as proposed by Manuel de Larramendi).
marie.severin.en.iwet.info   (10154 words)

  
 Timbisha Shoshone Tribe of Death Valley, California
The Timbisha Homeland includes the valley and the nearby mountains, valleys, flats, meadows, and springs.
As you may already know the Timbisha Tribe has been federally recognized since 1983 but was not granted a land base at the time of recognition.
Since 1998 the federal government and the Timbisha Tribe have worked hard and cooperatively to find lands that would be suitable for the Tribe.
www.ienearth.org /timbisha.html   (1200 words)

  
 Shoshone Indians in Death Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The word Timbisha means "red rock facepaint" and would later become the official name of the tribe.
In 1983, the Timbisha Shoshone became a federally recognized Native American tribe by the government.
Several of the younger members are studying the Shoshone language today and the tribe is getting more involved with issues relating to their homeland and conservation.
shoshone.us /shoshone-indians-in-death-a28.html   (940 words)

  
 Amazon: Listmania! - View List "Native American and Numic Languages"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bibliography of the Languages of Native California by William Bright
Languages of the Aboriginal Southeast by Karen Booker
Excellent bibliography for the native languages of the southeastern quadrant of the United States by one of the top scholars in the field.
www.amazon.com /Native-American-and-Numic-Languages/lm/3CJOZ5ZHSJVP1   (824 words)

  
 ICT [2000/03/29]  Timbisha -Shoshone a Step Closer to Homeland
The bill would provide the Timbisha with a permanent land base within their aboriginal homeland, an area within Death Valley National Park and other areas of California and Nevada.
Beginning in 1850, the Timbisha were driven from their land by homesteaders and ranchers, followed by mining interests.
In 1994, as part of the California Desert Protection Act, Congress recognized the Timbisha struggles by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to study and identify lands suitable for a reservation.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=895   (708 words)

  
 Timbisha:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Timbisha ("red rock facepaint") are a Native American people who have lived in the Death Valley, California region of North America for over 1000 years.
The Timbisha Shoshone Tribe, part of the Western Shoshone Nation, was recognized by the US government in 1983.
There are about 300 members of the tribe, approximately 50 of whom live at Furnace Creek within Death Valley National Park.
advantacell.com /wiki/Timbisha   (149 words)

  
 The Timbisah Shoshone Tribal Homeland Report
Such is the case in the Death Valley area where much of the Timbisha Shoshone Homeland and Death Valley National Park not only coincide physically but are highly valued by the Tribe, the National Park Service, and the American public.
Consequently, we resolved in Death Valley, and in the surrounding ancestral homelands of the Tribe, to value the beliefs and needs of both nations, to be fair to the Timbisha Shoshone and to the people of the United States.
We seek to restore lands on which the Timbisha Shoshone can exercise their sovereign tribal rights guaranteed by our Constitution and courts, and to develop lasting cooperative arrangements with the Tribe.
www3.iwvisp.com /blm/report/preface.htm   (669 words)

  
 California En Language Mortgage Refinancing Best Mortgage Rate (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Timbisha language - The Timbisha language (also called Panamint and spelled Tümpisa) is the language of the Native American people who inhabited the region in and around Death Valley, California in late prehistoric times.
For every 100 females there are often accomplished by the primaries and media also included health, public records creating a unique formula for office to do just in the struggle over 1 million people made Austin are 65 or prosecute squatters.
Austin, the river and solidarity of impact of the word "california en language mortgage refinancing," Law French for ACORN convention passed the groups discovered the cause the borrower.
www.firstbank-tx.com.cob-web.org:8888 /californiaenlanguagemortgagerefinancing.html   (436 words)

  
 USU English Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Today, the few remaining speakers of Timbisha are concentrated in the Timbisha Shoshone community of
Timbisha is closely related to the Shoshoni language of
This volume is a grammatical sketch of that language.
english.usu.edu /Document/index.asp?parent=7534   (645 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 17.2840: Language Description: McLaughlin (2005)
(1989a) discussion of the language's syntax is 'unlikely to be surpassed'
as the documentation of a previously unstudied variety of the language.
Maziar Toosarvandani is a graduate student in the linguistics department at the
linguistlist.org /issues/17/17-2840.html   (852 words)

  
 LINGUIST List 16.3285: Lang Description, Timbisha (Panamint): McLaughlin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Timbisha (Panamint) is a moribund member of the Central Numic branch of the
Timbisha is related to the Shoshone language of Nevada, Utah, Idaho and
Timbisha aspect and tense are reflected as suffixes on the verb stem and
www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/16/16-3285.html   (336 words)

  
 [ content-available.be | Shoshone language Resources ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The digit of citizens who spiel Shoshone has unusable steadily dwindling concluded the closing middling decades, so there are only a middling hundred citizens who spiel the expression fluently today, granting a middling hundred semblance certain it to unique standard or another.
Shoshone is northernmost constituent of the king-size Uto-Aztecan expression family, which concluded thirty languages whose speakers basically inhabited a vast territory stretching from the Salmon River in fundamental Idaho down into northern 'n fundamental Mexico.
It is an agglutinating language, in which words, chiefly verbs, make for to be just tortuous with a division morphemes (meaningful realities of sound) strung together.
www.content-available.be /Shoshone_language   (353 words)

  
 Numic (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It includes seven languages spoken by Native American peoples traditionally living in the Great Basin, Colorado River basin, and southern Great Plains.
Disregarding the Comanche language, each of these groups contains one language spoken in a small area just east of the Sierra Nevada (Mono, Timbisha and Kawaiisu), and one language spoken in large area further to the east (Northern Paiute, Ute-Southern Paiute and Shoshone).
The Comanche language and the Shoshone language are therefore quite similar.
www.e-tv.co.za.cob-web.org:8888 /n/u/m/Numic.html   (244 words)

  
 Faculty for Utah State University's On-Line Linguistics Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
McLaughlin is an Assistant Professor at Utah State University whose main research interests are the Numic languages of the Great Basin and theoretical aspects of language comparison and chance.
He has published papers on the Numic languages, Comanche, Shoshoni, and Panamint (Timbisha Shoshone), and is a Contributing Editor for the Great Basin on the Native American Placenames of the U.S. project.
"Language Boundaries and Phonological Borrowing in the Central Numic Languages." Uto-Aztecan: Temporal and Geographical Perspectives.
www.english.usu.edu /lingnet/GenePage/faculty.htm   (690 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)

  
 California Indian Languages: Uto-Aztecan Tribes
Research indicates that Uto-Azetcan began to diversify in California after Hokan and Penutian were present, but before all of the Penutian languages achieved their later prehistoric distribution.
Cultural Notes: Less than nine speakers of the original language are left, and they are all more than 50 years old.
The Kutzadika’a people do not have Mono in their language and history does not offer a clear explanation of its origin.
www.parks.ca.gov /?page_id=23735   (963 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.