Nearly half of the 7,000 languages spoken in the world are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. One of them is Athabaskan, a language of the Siletz tribe in the Pacific Northwest. Bud Lane, vice ...

While there are striking similarities among the 19 Native American Pueblos in the state of New Mexico, there are distinct differences in the languages. With six separate types, Tiwa, Tewa, Towa, Keres ...

The annual Athabascan Fiddle Festival in Fairbanks had its first show 31 years ago, in 1983. Since then the festival has grown, and seen changes in the music, but is still thriving. The event is inter ...

Spoken by only a few dozen people, a language uttered in river villages 3,000 miles from Alaska is related to Tlingit, Eyak and Athabaskan. This curious link has researchers wondering how people in ...

Foreword -- Language contact and change in the Americas : the state of the art / Sarah G. Thomason -- North America : California -- Yuki, Pomoan, Wintun, and Athabaskan : language contact in Round ...