Test your knowledge on the nearly extinct or nearly extinct languages
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Question: This could have been the language of Magua in "The Last of the Mohicans".
Mohican or Mahican
Wyandot or Huron
Mohawk
Mingo
Question: The last of these speakers could have been Uncas.
Narragansett
Delaware
Mohegan
Mahican
Question: Sent by President Jefferson to explore the West in 1805, Lewis and Clark were guests of this tribe for the winter, and the Fort they built bore the same name. The language is nearly extinct.
Yanktonais
Minnetaree
Mandan
Arikara
Question: Pocahontas spoke this language.
Potomac
Powhatan
Montaignais
Pamunkey
Question: Another language that was heard by Lewis and Clark expedition members. Also called Ree. What was it?
Minnetaree
Flathead
Shoshone
Arikara
Question: This is a nearly extinct Siouan language of Oklahoma. What is it?
Kiowa
Omaha
Assiniboine
Osage
Question: You've heard this language in "Dances With Wolves", spoken by Wes Studi.
Pawnee
Dakota
Sioux
Shawnee
Question: This is the most endangered among Iroquois languages.
Cayuga
Tuscarora
Seneca
Onondaga
Question: This extinct language of Maine was spoken by a fierce tribe that always fought on the French side against the English.
Eastern Abnaki
Southern Ottawa
Huron
Montaignais
Question: This language of the Algonquian family was spoken by a tribe sharing a name with a city in Florida.
Miami
Tallahassee
Tampa
Pensacola
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