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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are a diverse group of languages that originated in the Americas prior to colonization, many of which continue to be spoken. Over a thousand of these languages are still used today, while many more are now extinct.
This November, you can learn more about North America’s first inhabitants by finding out which Indigenous lands you live on, using a collaborative, interactive map. Since launching on Native...
We strive to map Indigenous territories, treaties, and languages across the world in a way that goes beyond colonial ways of thinking in order to better represent how Indigenous people want to see themselves.
Title within map border: Early Indian tribes, culture areas, and linguistic stocks. In lower left margin: National atlas of the United States of America, Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092.
Alphabetic listing of Native American Indian tribes of South, Central, and North America, with links to information about each Indian tribe and its native language.
Tribal maps showing the pre-Columbian, colonial, and current locations of Native American lands. A History of the Indians of the United States : Good overview of the history of Native Americans in the United States.
Map reconstituting the geographic culture areas of the early Native American tribes and the different Amerindian languages that were spoken in the USA. By William C. Sturtevant, Smithsonian Institute...
American Indian languages, languages spoken by the original inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere and their modern descendants. The American Indian languages do not form a single historically interrelated stock (as do the Indo-European languages), nor are there any structural features (in phonetics, grammar, or vocabulary) whereby American ...
Native American tribes have lived and thrived upon the North American landscape for thousands of years—since long before there was a United States. Historically, about 500 distinct Native languages were spoken in North America. All Code Talkers were fluent speakers of their tribes’ languages.
Map of linguistic stocks of American Indians. From: Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology, v. 7, by J.W. Powell. LC Many nations, p. 209 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.