Coahuila

[Frances Karttunen]

On Oct 24, 2004, at 8:32 AM, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> A good place to start with Kickapoo history is volume 15 of the
> Smithsonian's /Handbook of the American Indian/. There is a full 
> chapter
> on the Kickapoo with details about their historical ventures.
>
>
Another useful reference book Is Lyle Campbell's American Indian 
Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America (Oxford 
University Press, 1997).  There are index references to the Coahuilans' 
language throughout the volume, but the most germane ones are to be 
found on p. 144 (Coahuilteco) and pp. 297-304 (Coahuiltecan, i.e., the 
relationship of a number of languages including Coahuilteco).

Lyle has charts of the languages of the Americas: North, Middle, and 
South with maps and discussions of historical relationships.  This is a 
comprehensive book.

On p. 153 is a chart of the Algonquian-Ritwan language family.  There 
you can find Kickapoo (with its historic displacements to Kansas, 
Oklahoma, Texas, and Coahuila) but not Coahuilteco, which is not an 
Algonquian language.

A propósito of what is likely and what is not: Two languages of 
California (Wiyot and Yurok) are now accepted as being related to the 
Algonquian languages of north central and northeast North America 
despite the geographical odds against such a relationship. That's more 
remarkable than the displacement of Navajo/Apache from the Athabaskan 
languages of the Pacific Northwest.

Fran