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NAT-LANG is one of several electronic mailing lists operated by NativeNet. It focuses on Native languages and has subscribers from all over the world. The listowner is Gary S. Trujillo at gst@gnosys.svle.ma.us To subscribe to NAT-LANG, send an e-mail message to: listserv@listserv.tamu.edu. Your message should contain a single line reading: subscribe nat-lang firstname lastname (where firstname and lastname are your own first and last names).

Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA)
http://www.ssila.org

SSILA, founded in 1981, is an international scholarly organization representing American Indian linguistics. Membership in SSILA is open to all those who are interested in the scientific study of the languages of the native peoples of North, Central, and South America.

Learning Aids for North American Indian Languages
http://wings.buffalo.edu/linguistics/ssila/learning.stm

Learning Aids for North American Indian Languages is a language learning resource for a broad range of Native languages. Learning Aids offers information on published and semi-published teaching and reference materials for North American Indian languages or groups of languages. It has pointers to citations for dictionaries, descriptive grammars, pedagogic materials, collections of bilingual narratives, and tapes, among others. This large resource is arranged alphabetically by language group and contains many cross references. More than 100 language groups are included.

International Linguistics Center in Dallas
http://www.sil.org/

The "sil" in the Web site address refers to "Summer Institute of Linguistics."This site provides information on the states of languages all over the world in an "Ethnologue."

Endangered Language Fund
http://sapir.ling.yale.edu/~elf/study.html

This site lists regularly taught courses in endangered languages.

Less Commonly Taught Languages Project University of Minnesota
http://www.carla.umn.edu/lctl/

As the name implies, the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project focuses on languages taught less often than Spanish, French, or German. Courses on less common languages valuable primarily at colleges and universities but also other settings are listed in a database. Apache, Arapaho, Caddo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, DinŽ (Navajo), Kiowa, and Quapaw are the languages in the database that pertain to the region that includes Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas.

NativeNet Archives
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/ng/

The NAT-LANG mail archives are broken down by year (1990-93, 1994, 1995, and 1996) and sorted in normal time-sequenced fashion, except the current year, which is sorted in reverse order so that you can find new items quickly. The article archives are presently being indexed to enable keyword searches to be performed.