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3 unusual facts about Fox language


Ray Young Bear

He writes about contemporary Native Americans in English and in the Meskwaki language.

Sauk language

Sauk language of the Sac tribe of Native Americans (Sometimes considered a dialect of Fox language, also called Meskwaki)

Sinsinawa River

One version holds that "Sinsinawa" derives from an Algonquian word (possibly Potawatomi, Fox or Menominee language) for "rattlesnake" to describe the Sioux.



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Philip LeSourd

LeSourd earned both a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics at M.I.T. He became fascinated with Algonquian languages after a class in the Mesquakie (Fox) language from Ives Goddard at Harvard soon after finishing his bachelor's degree.