Listen to American Indians from twelve tribal communities speaking in their mother tongues

[littlemissmartypants]

http://ourmothertongues.org/Home.aspx

Listen to American Indians from twelve tribal communities speaking in their mother tongues by holding your mouse over the images. You can also click on an image or a tribal name on the right side of the page to learn more about their language and history.

http://ourmothertongues.org/languagemaps.aspx


Love, Peace and Shelter.lmsp

[Scootaloo]

1. I had the privilege to have a dinner with Marie Smith Jones

The last native speaker of Eyak, who passed away in 2008. The extinction of a language is as terrible thing as the extinction of a species; when it disappears, an entire way of thinking and expressing thought, unique to that language disappears as well. Idiom, song, philosophy, legend, all of it goes down the hole without the language behind it.

[yellerpup]

2. The Cherokee Nation, West (Oklahoma)

gives free online language lessons. For those interested, you can get info here: http://www.cherokee.org