Northwest Coast Languages Bibliography


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Northwest Coast Languages Bibliography

Over 24 different languages were once spoken by the Native people of Washington State, and over 400 were spoken in North America. After being forced to stop speaking their languages in boarding schools in the early 20th century, today Native elders are struggling to preserve and teach their languages to the younger generations.

Which culture speak which language? Consult this outline of Northwest Coast tribal and language names, including alternate terms.

Links to external Web sites

Lushootseed.net

Publications

Bates, Dawn, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert
1994	Lushootseed Dictionary. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Boas, Franz
1911	The Kwakiutl Indian Language in Handbook of American Indian Languages; Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin #40; 1911.
1891	Vocabularies of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Languages. American Philosopical Society Proceedings, Vol 29: 183-193.
1886	The Language of the Bilhoola in British Columbia. Science, ser. 1, 7: 218.
Davis, Henry
1976	Tlingit/English Dictionary: Nouns. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson College.
Enrico, John
1989	The Haida Language. Second Beach, B.C.: The Queen Charlotte Islands Museum.
Gibbs, George
1877	Vocabulary of the Ha-ilt-zukh. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. 1: 144-150.
1877	Vocabulary of the Belhola. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. 1: 267-283.
1877	Vocabulary of the Ko-mookhs. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. 1: 269-283.
Goddard, Ives (ed)
1996	Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 17 - Languages. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Harrison, C.
1892	Haida Grammar. Royal Society of Canada Proceedings and Transactoins, ser. 2, 1, pt. 2: 123-226.
Hall, Rev. Alfred J.
1888	A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada.
Hess, Thom
1976	Dictionary of Puget Salish. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Howay, F.W.
1943	Origin of the Chinook Jargon on the North West Coast. Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, vol. 44: 27-55.
Jacobs, Melville
1936	Texts in Chinook Jargon. University of Washington Publications in Anthropology Vol. 7, no. 1.
Kuipers, Aert H.
1967	The Squamish Language; grammar, texts, dictionary. The Hague: Mouton.
Lawrence, Erma (ed).
1977	Haida Dictionary. Fairbanks: The Society for the Preservation of Haida Language and Literature and The Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska.
Pilling, J. C.
1893	Bibliography of the Salishan Languages. U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 16: 1-86.
1894	Bibliography of theWakashan Languages. U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 19: 1-69.
Shaw, George C.
1909	The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It: A Complete and Exhaustive Lexicon of the Oldest Trade Langage of the American Continent. Seattle:Rainier Printing Company.
Story, Gillian L. and Constance M. Naish
1973	Tlingit Verb Dictionary. College, AK: University of Alaska Alaska Native Language Center.
Swanton, John R.
1902	Notes on the Haida Language. American Anthropologist, n.s. 4: 392-403.
Thomas, Edward H.
1970	Chinook: a History and Dictionary of the Northwest Coast Trade Jargon. Portland: Binfords and Mort.
Tolmie, W.F. and G.M. Dawson
1884	Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia. Montreal: 38E-48E.


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