Project Gutenberg 2005-12-12 Public domain in the USA. 217 Powell, John Wesley 1834 1902 Powell, J. W. (John Wesley) Powell, Wes Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 Produced by Louise Hope, Carlo Traverso, the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr "Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico" by John Wesley Powell is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. This work delves into the diverse languages spoken by the indigenous tribes of North America, offering a comprehensive analysis of their classifications and relationships. The book likely appeals to those interested in linguistics, anthropology, and the understanding of indigenous cultures within America. At the start of the book, the author discusses the complexities surrounding the study of Native American languages, highlighting the historical interactions between tribes and the influence of European settlers which led to language borrowing and the development of intertribal jargons. Powell outlines the difficulties faced by researchers, including the vast number of linguistic families and the confusing overlaps due to cultural exchanges. He proposes a need for a standardized nomenclature to better classify and analyze these languages, setting the stage for a detailed exploration of linguistic families and their geographical distributions throughout North America. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Indians of North America -- Languages Indians of North America -- Languages -- Bibliography E011 Text Native America Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Encyclopedias/Dictionaries/Reference Browsing: History - American 647466 646271 2024-09-07T13:21:58.939636 2023-09-08T05:18:45.535243 text/html text/html 633886 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/html; charset=utf-8 1236120 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1312691 2024-09-07T13:22:14.452562 application/epub+zip 1320777 2024-09-07T13:22:02.325608 application/epub+zip 255032 2024-09-07T13:22:00.346642 application/epub+zip 1662021 2024-09-07T13:22:20.589566 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1630640 2024-09-07T13:22:12.696571 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402204 2022-09-08T10:18:00.446994 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 496588 2024-09-07T13:21:55.930698 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 498001 2020-12-13T11:51:15 text/plain; charset=utf-8 154805 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 496068 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 154116 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 497413 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 154246 2020-12-13T11:51:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22545 2024-09-07T13:22:20.759548 application/rdf+xml 24968 2024-09-07T13:22:00.820628 image/jpeg 4958 2024-09-07T13:22:00.584629 image/jpeg 1305207 2024-09-07T13:21:58.999629 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia