A Missouri Southern State University anthropology professor has dedicated her career to the preservation of a language that no longer has any fluent speakers — Chiwere. Jill Greer has spent three ...
A language map of Eastern Siouan Speaking Peoples during the 17th century. Courtesy of Stewart Scales/Virginia Tech. The shape of the land is familiar, but the names on this map are different. Gone ...
Language is so bound up in culture that the loss of American Indian languages is a loss of an important part of their speakers' identities. Linguists working to preserve the Siouan family of Indian ...