Pete Curtis
A software architect, endurance athlete, and musician living in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
This is my own humble place to share the things I enjoy.
contact (at) petestuff (dot) org
Arikara is a severely endangered language spoken only on the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It's one of the last remaining representatives of the Caddoan languages, which were, in pre-contact times, widespread in the south central U.S., primarily in what is now Oklahoma.
Tlingit is a language spoken along the coast of southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia. It's related to other languages in the interior, the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Alaska, but surprisingly, also to the Navajo language of the American Southwest through its membership in the Na-Dené superfamily.
Creek (not to be confused with Cree) is a Muskogean language that was spoken in what is now the states of Alabama and Georgia. This language and its relatives such as Miccosukee, Koasati, and even (you guessed it...) Alabama, once dominated the southeastern United States.
Lakota is probably the most iconic Native American culture. The painted warriors on galloping horses, feathered headdresses, long braids, and itinerant tepees of TV and movies all owe their origin to the indigenous cultures of the northern Great Plains.
Subscribe