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http://quicksilverscreen.com/watch?video=47150&zcc=1229015275328
If it brings up a screen asking anything just click on the canel and it will bring up the movie.
That link is to
Ancient Voices: Cahokia – America’s Lost City
a 50 minute documentry.
That is where the Siouans and Iroqious and Muskogee came from.
Plot
This documentary tells the story of the once mighty city of Cahokia, North America’s first metropolis. Located in the corner where Illinois and Missouri now meet, the remains of this vast city now lay beneath the highways and urban sprawl of modern St. Louis. The film takes the viewer back to prehistoric times to look at the mysterious world of this ancient civilization, with its huge construction projects, sophisticated works of art, and sacrificial rites. Seeking information on one of the most intriguing chapters in history , leading experts at the site talk about their discoveries. A Native American researcher shares his dramatic personal search for his own roots in the Cahokian culture. The film examines the question of why this amazing civilization suddenly disappeared, and its place in the human story today. ~ Rose of Sharon Winter, All Movie Guide
I just noticed you may have to have the “Veoh” player to watch the full 50 minutes…or you may have to click the download option…..
But the documentry is really good…I’ve watched it about 4 times before.
I am not sure but I think Cahokia may have gotten it’s name for the hokan-Siouan language
Here is a interesting thing about the hokan-Siouan language:
The Hokan-Siouan family consists of ten groups of Indian languages.
Arikara, Caddo, Pawnee, Wichita
Chontal, Guayma, Maribichicoa, Salinero, Seri, Subtiaba, Tepoca, Tequistlateco
Cayuga, Cherokee, Mohawk, Onandaga, Oneida, Seneka, Tuscarora, Wyandot
Alabama-Koasati, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Hitchiti, Mikasuki, Seminole
Clear Lake, Southwestcoast Pomo
Assiniboine, Catawba, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa, Iowa, Kansa, Mandan, Omaha, Osage, Oto, Ponca, Quapow, Winnebago
Akwaala, Cocopa, Diegueno, Halchidhoma, Halyikwamai, Havasupai, Kamia, Kaveltchadom, Kohuana, Mohave, Walapai, Yavapai, Yuma
Hokan Language Family:
The Hokan languages are spoken in the southwestern and west coast US and in northwestern Mexico (Baja California and Sonora). The relationships between the different branches of the Hokan language family are tenuous and this grouping is considered hypothetical. Some linguists have proposed a distant relationship between the Hokan, Muskogean and Siouan languages. The Hokan languages are generally considered to include:
Yuman Languages Delta-Californian Languages
Karok-Shasta Languages
Palaihninan Languages
Pomo Languages
Western Pomo Languages
Salinan-Seri Languages
Since I’m mentioning how the Hokan was in Mexico also…..here is the Language groups of the Natives of Mexico….interesting is Algonkian is in Mexico also.
The indigenous languages of Mexico belong to three major groups, sometimes called ‘linguistic stocks‘, besides six ‘linguistic families‘ that are not related to other languages. Some of these groups include languages of Guatemala (the Mayan family), and others include languages of the United States and Canada (Algonquian family, Hokan stock, and Uto-Aztecan stock).
Language stocks and families in Mexico
- Hokan stock [Yuman family, possibly the Serian and Tequistlatecan families]
- Otomanguean stock [Amuzgoan, Chinantecan, Mixtecan, Otopamean, Popolocan, Tlapanecan and Zapotecan families]
- Uto-Aztecan stock [Corachol, Nahuatl (Aztec), Tepiman and Taracahitic families]
- Families and languages not grouped into stocks [Algonquian, Huavean, Mayan, Mixe-zoquean, Tarascan and Totonacan families;
Hokan stock:
The following language family of Mexico belongs to the Hokan stock:
- Yuman family [Cocopa, Kiliwa, Kumiai (Diegueño) and Paipai]
Some have proposed that the Serian [Seri] and Tequistlatecan [Oaxaca Chontal] families be included in this stock, but the evidence for their inclusion is weak.
The Hokan stock includes languages of Mexico and the western part of the United States, especially in California. This group is somewhat famous because its validity as a group has been a topic of considerable dispute. The name “Hokan-Coahuiltecan” was also used previously because some linguists were proposing the inclusion of the Coahuiltec language (now extinct) from the state of Coahuila. The predominant view currently is more conservative and does not include it.
The name “Hokan” comes from the word for ‘two’ that supposedly is one of the pieces of evidence for the genetic relationship of these languages: the root is [*xwak] in Proto-Yuman, [ookx] in Seri, and [ogéʔ] or [ukweʔ] in Oaxaca Chontal (Highland and Lowland, respectively.)
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