Languages

First Nations Development Institute offers this list of resources to help you find information about Native American languages. We also offer similar resource pages for federally-recognized Indian tribes in the United States, and for tribal enrollment and genealogy. These lists are not comprehensive, so we suggest you search the web for additional resources.

Scroll below for further information.

Native American Languages
http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/codetalkers/html/chapter2.html
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/254
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas
http://www.native-languages.org/

Lakota Language Institute
http://www.thundervalley.org/live-rez/our-programs/lakota-language

Navajo language academy
https://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tfernal1/nla/halearch/halearch.htm

Navajo language
https://navajowotd.com/


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