Sounds of Survival: Language Loss, Retention, and Restructuring Among American Indian Peoples in the Southeast

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Clare Dannenberg, Virginia Tech

Abstract

This paper investigates indigenous language loss in the Southeastern United States, involving the Eastern Cherokee, Occaneechi, Chickahominy, Haliwa-Saponi, Nansemond, Pamunkey, Catawba, the Monacan tribes, and particularly considers the Lumbee. As will be evident, the resiliency of Native peoples is symbolically manifested in cases like the Lumbee, where ancestral languages have been lost or simply forgotten.

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Dannenberg, Clare (2004) "Sounds of Survival: Language Loss, Retention, and Restructuring Among American Indian Peoples in the Southeast," Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 30: No. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southern_anthropologist/vol30/iss2/4