#AP10 - Apache Language program - $74.95 plus S&H 
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This basic course of four audio tapes, 137 page workbook with over 800 glossary provides a highly recommended Jicarilla Apache language learning program. Developed in conjunction with the Jicarila Apache Tribal council. Learn vocabulary and sentence structure used in everyday conversation. Cultural notes on Apoache humor, taboos and idiomatic usages are interspersed in the 21 lessons units. Contains comparisons with other Apache dialects.
#CN10 - Cheyenne Language program - $39.95 plus S&H 
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Let's Talk Cheyenne - written by Ted Risingsun and Wayne Leman is an introductory course of two 60 minute audio tapes recorded by a native Cheyenne speaker. The 57 pp workbook features greetings, eating and drinking verbs, simple conversations and much more. Recommended.
#CN11 - Cheyenne Legends - $15.95 plus S&H
With eyes closed and the feather-tipped "Talking Stick" in hand, Eugene Blackbear, Sr. quietly relates the stories of "Sweet Medicine" and the "Legend of Devil's Tower." Eugene, 71, also known as "Yello Bird" was born in Watonga, OK. A respected cheyenne elder, he is a Cheyenne Arrow Priest, Sundance Priest, a Fasting Priest, Native American Church Priest and Sweat Lodge Priest. Bear Butte is known as a sacred place to 17 tribes of the plains: the Lakota, the Cheyenne, and Kiowa to name just three. It is a central landmark in the spiritual landscape of North America. The Indian people treat it with the utmost reverence, the way a Christian might regard Bethlehem. The prayer flags and tobacco bundles are left as offerings of gratitude to the Creator. The people come here to fast and pray and connect with something larger than themselves. For Indian people, they are coming to church.
#258 - Shoshone Indian Words $14.95 plus S&H
Written by William White illustrated by Emily Donzie White. 6X9 55 pages with photographs. Phonetically written for easy pronunciation, this handy glossary has aproximately 500 of the most frequently used words in the Shoshone language. Very similar to the Comanche language. The Shoshone were the mother nation tothe Comanche before the Comanche migrated south onto the lower plains. This is an excellent addition to your western tribes library.
# Hopi - $15.95 plus S&H
There is no better way to begin teaching a language than with music and on this CD eight songs are sung in the traditional Hopi style. You'l delight in hearing "Old MacDonald" sung in Hopi. Learning Through Hopi Songs are sung by Anita Poleahla and Ferrell Seckuku.
#272 - Western Delaware - $59.95 plus S&H
Complete pronunciation guide to a 200 word glossary. This program provides the most complete self-study Leni Lenape language program available. Three audio tapes - 21 lesson workbook. You will learn common phrases, family terms, numbers, tribal names, and much more. Recommended for the serious learner.
#272-CD CD Version of the Western Delaware program: $64.95 plus S&H
# 271 Leni Lenape CD ROM - $15.95 (plus S & H)
The CD was produced by the Delaware Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma.
#251 - Kiowa Language Sampler & Legend CD
$15.95 plus S&H
A brief introduction to the Kiowa language with some of the most common words and phrases with a complete pronunciation guide. Also the story of the "Little Eagle" is told by Eva Lou Ware Russell in both Kiowa and English as only "Kauauointy" (Honking Goose) can tell it. Written expressly for her children and grandchildren, it is a wonderful story and lesson for children. Eva Lou was selected "Outstanding Indian Woman of Oklahoma, the United States and Canada" and is the recipient of the "OEA Human Relations Award." A storytelling CD you'll keep for years.
The Kiowa Language Sampler audio cassette and the Kiowa Legend audio cassette are still available at $10.95 each plus shipping and handling.
Lakota Language Programs
The Lakota language today is spoken by thousands of Sioux people living primarily in South Dakota, west of the Missouri River. The term "Sious" refers to people of similar ethnic backgrounds and includes Lakota speakers (the most mumerous), Dakota and Nakota speakers.
#262 - Everyday Lakota - tape and dictionary - $29.95 plus S&H
This single tape and dictionary provides you with the baisc skills to speak Lakota. Written by Joseph Karol, this book includes 3800 entries, 300 phrases, names of animals, biards and expressions of time, idiom drills and rules for forming sentences.
#263 - Lakota Grammar Series - $39.95 plus S&H
Speaker Rosalie Little Thunder guides you through the Lakota language in pure unwritten conversational form. A good program for beginners.
#264 - Conversational Lakota - $10.95 plus S&H
Speaker Rosalie Goodbear - single audio tape.
#LK10 - Introductory Lakota - $224.95 plus S&H
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This 15 audio cassette program (12 hrs) with an 87 pp workbook and a 9 page final test is for the serious learner. Written by native speakers, the program was developed by the Oglala Lakota College, Pine Ridge Reservation. The emphasis is on sound and meaning. All recordings are by native speakers. The exercises use the Roman alphabet because Lakota was never written until recently. Highly recommended.
Navajo Language Programs
NV10 - Breakthrough Navajo - $49.95 plus S&H
Also available in CD format for the same price!
This beginning language audio-casette/workbook program were developed by Alan Wilson, formerly Professor of Navajo Language at the University of New Mexico, with the assistance of native Navajo speakers. This self-study program will not only give instruction in the Navajo langauge, but will also provide a deep understanding of Navajo culture and lifestyle. Over three hours of audio tapes and a 234 pp workbook.
NV20 - Speak Navajo - $49.95 plus S&H
This intermediate program features two audio cassettes and a 167 page workbook and assumes the learner has some command of basic Navajo. Speak Navajo encompasses verb usage in all forms and tenses (present, past and future). The entire text is recorded by a native speaker as an aid to the correct pronunciation of the language. The program focuses on the use of vocabulary and structures relative to topics of daily living such as weaving, animal husbandry, tribal government and planting.
For pre-school language books and other Navajo Language Learning programs contact Salina Bookshelf, Inc.
Books of the Western Tribes
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#HR004 American Indian Directory.
A national listing of over 545 federally recognized American Indian Tribes and Nations - contains address and phone numbers.
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