American Indian Languages

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Facts & Figures

Ethnologue: Languages of the world
Searching this free web site can help you find indigenous languages, the families to which they belong, where they are spoken and an estimated number of speakers.

There are also language statistics including nearly extinct.languages which are listed by continents and then countries.

List of Federally Registered Tribes
The text of the Thursday, March 22, 2007 Federal Register. The official name of the list is: "Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible to Receive Services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs." The list is to be published in the Federal Register about every two years..

MIT Indigenous Language Initiative:  Language Loss
Statistics and quotes about language loss.

Demographics:

American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Data and Links
A Census Bureau site which provided links to all of the census information on line for American Indians and Alaska Natives.

U.S. Census Bureau
Direct access to the full online Census for 2000 and 1990. Includes business and manufacturing data was well as population and housing. Mapping capabilities are included.

Tiller's Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations - E93 .T55 2005 Main Ref.
Profiles by state the economy of every Indian reservation in the United States.