Flutes of Fire : An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated Seneca Second Story Press

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setting up a tipi

The words and sentences in this book are used everyday by first speakers while conversing in the first language

At least until he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary

Flutes of Fire : An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated Seneca Second Story PressBefore outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994, Flutes of Fire has become one of the classic books about Californias many Native languages. It is written to be approachable, entertaining, and informativeuseful for people doing language revitalization work in their own communities, for linguists, and for a general readership