Talk:Chitimacha

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The French raided them for slaves? I'd have thought it would have been the Chickasaw, with English backing. Pfly 02:41, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Extinct Language?
Perhaps someone with some reliable localized knowledge could explain why 25 people in St. Mary Parish claimed to speak Chitimacha in the home on the 2000 census. (All claimed speakers were under the age of 18 as well, which seems dubious but could be an administrative categorization. See this link to MLA web site. Nonetheless, I think some more sources should be cited before Wikipedia confidently claims it to be a dead language.

I did manage to see some of the written form of the language on a tribal veterans monument in Charenton LA, looks like a pretty wicked phonology. :)


 * I don't have a great deal of knowledge of this group, but I believe the people who reported that they speak the language on the census would be those participating in the language revitalization program which has gone on now for perhaps as long as 15 years? They probably reported it on the census as a way of showing their pride in the tribe and in the program, however based on what (little) I know, I doubt that they are able to carry on conversation. It is well established that the language died in the 1940s (sorry, don't have refs on me) and I don't believe there is sufficient documentation of it for a revitalization program to achieve a great deal of success. Himatsu Bushi (talk) 18:32, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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population graph please
could someone who knows how to do such things please make a graph or some sort of visual of the estimated population over time? Cramyourspam (talk) 17:29, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

Early 20th-century disenrollment?
This paragraph was in the article: "Between 1904 and 1919, tribal members of mixed African and Native American ancestry were evicted from the tribe, and their descendants have since then been denied tribal membership." These self-published sources by an unrecognized group, "The Lost Tribe." If this disenrollment actually happened (I'm not finding mention of it in books) and reliable, secondary sources can be found to collaborate it, then the information should be returned to the article. Yuchitown (talk) 17:12, 23 December 2021 (UTC)Yuchitown


 * It looks like there were some new reports on this in the early 2010s that haven't been archived, but I did find this article from Indian Country newspaper. It's not a straight news story, so it might not meet WP:RS, but it does speak to the paragraph in question. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 17:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)