Category
page 1Indigenous languages of the North American Plains
Cree
aboriginal language continuum spoken in Canada
Algonquian
subfamily of Native American languages
Athabaskan
large group of indigenous languages of North America
Siouan
language family
Cheyenne
indigenous language of the United States
Algic
language family
Lakota
Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes
Blackfoot
indigenous language of the northwestern Great Plains of North America
Michif
Michif (also Mitchif, Mechif, Michif-Cree, Métif, Métchif, French Cree) is one of the languages of the Métis people of Canada and the United States, who are the descendants of First Nations (mainly Cree, Nakota, and Ojibwe) and fur trade workers of white ancestry (mainly French). The fathers of the Metis Nation were also known as voyageurs, the expert canoeists whose main occupation involved traveling long distances and trading with First Nations. This occupation also required forging relationships and common language with Indigenous contacts. The voyageurs and Indigenous women began intermarr
Comanche
Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people in the United States
Arapaho
language of the Algonquian family, spoken in the United States
Tonkawa
language spoken in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico by the Tonkawa people
Kiowa
Tanoan language
Numic
branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
Crow
language
Sac-Fox-Kickapoo
Algonquian language spoken in US Midwest and northern Mexico
Gros Ventre
language
Mandan
extinct Siouan language
Assiniboine
language
Kickapoo
language
Pawnee
language
Plains Algonquian
language subgroup
Plains Apache
extinct Southern Athabaskan language, formerly spoken in Arkansas
Hidatsa
North American language
Plains Cree
language
Tsuutʼina
language
Wichita
Extinct Native American language

Stoney
Siouan language of Canada
Dhegihan
group of Siouan languages that include Kansa–Osage, Omaha–Ponca, and Quapaw
Unami
Eastern Algonquian language of North America
Chippewa
Algonquian language; southwestern variety of Ojibwe
Bungi Creole
mixed language spoken by the Red River Métis
Western Siouan
language family native to North America
Karankawa
language
Arapahoan
Algonquian language family
Nawathinehena
language
Western Ojibwa
language