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Pattwin (Specific languages/Ethnic groups)
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California’s community republics: groups of small size owning a restricted territory nameless except for their tract or best known spot, speaking a dialect identical with that of several of their neighbors but are wholly autonomous. EG: Patwin in Davis
Patwin words for certain trees may be borrowed from miwok languages |
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Navajo
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- Native American Language with most speakers, 150,000
- Athabaskin Language Family - Southwest Culture Area |
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Nahuatl
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- language of the Aztecs
- Uto-Aztecan Language Family - Mesoamerica Culture area |
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Cherokee (iroquian)
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Cherokee Syllabary:
Developed by Sequoyah Each character represents one syllable - one consonant sound plus one vowel sound Cherokee newspapers by 1828 Syllabary is still used today |
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Yanomami
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In brazil and Venezuela
Gold Rush of 1987-1990 Rapid deforestation Study of four yanomami villages reported in Goodwin and gomez (health study found that malaria (mosquito) was being given to yanomami through breeding grounds being caused by development) 10% of pop developed malaria, and after development it raised to 60% - incidence of anemia 1984 to 1985 10% and after 95 it was 75% Increased death rate - Went from 12 to 36 deaths from 84 to 89 |
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Eskimo (aleut) (US/Alaska)
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Used to say they have a different language because they have different words for snow
So what? Printers have a ton of words for fonts Geoff Pullum: Having different words for snow isn’t inherently interesting or strange |
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Elsie Allen
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basket weaver
went to school in Hopland and the Indian boarding school at Covelo in Round Valley she would get in trouble for speaking the native language in the school and vowed to never teach her kids the language because she didn’t want them to go through the experiences she did. |
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Frances Jack
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She was born in 1912 (died 1993)
activist in the schools and for tribal status issues. rebelled against teachers telling her not to speak her language and got in more trouble than most of the other students. She ended up dropping out in fifth grade. |
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Carl Nelson Gorman
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one of the founders of the NAS department of UC Davis. As well as one of the first professors of NA studies and has a museum in his honor in Hart Hall.
“Navajo artist, WWII code-talker, cultural historian, and advocate for Native peoples“ |
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Jessie Little Doe Baird
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Revitalized Algonquian/wopanaak
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