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University of Nebraska Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy; no dust jacket. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. The Miami-Illinois Language reconstructs the language spoken by the Miami and the Illinois Native Americans. During the latter half of the seventeenth century both Native communities lived in the region to the south of Lake Michigan in present-day Illinois and Indiana. The French and Indian War, followed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by massive influxes of white settlers into the Ohio River Valley, proved disastrous for both Native groups. Reduced in number by warfare and disease, the Illinois (now called the Peorias) along with half of the Miamis relocated first to Kansas and then to northeast Oklahoma, while the other half of the Miamis remained in northern Indiana. The Miami and the Illinois Native Americans speak closely related dialects of a language of the Algonquian language family. Linguist David J.…
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- Title The Miami-Illinois Language
- Author David J. Costa
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 566
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date 2003-06-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780803215146 / 0803215142
- Weight 2.26 lbs (1.03 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.36 x 1.58 in (23.42 x 16.15 x 4.01 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Library of Congress subjects Miami language (Ind. and Okla.), Illinois language
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002114304
- Dewey Decimal Code 497.3
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