summary algonquian homeland content length 10189 april made enquiry algonquian homeland slightly abbreviated form repeated reading merritt ruhlen _ origin language _ would like ask question two content section locating algonquian homeland first ruhlen says frank siebert proposed area eastern upper great lakes origin algonquian dispersal ruhlen source reference anyone give source secondly importantly ruhlen appeals sapir age area hypothesis effect area greatest diversity family likely point original homeland family since greatest divergence evidently blackfoot rest family southwest family extent ruhlen suggests _ contra _ siebert homeland family closest external relatives also direction initial attempt locate homeland ruhlen arguments seem sound enough outsider however kind support would want look would argument first branching genealogical tree divides blackfoot rest family would based claim rest family shares set innovations relative proto algonquian proto algonquian whose reconstruction also takes full account blackfoot data went library see could find came ives goddard account comparative algonquian campbell mithun _ languages native america _ 1979 goddard says read correctly obvious subgroup within algonquian eastern algonquian gives innovations defining ii blackfoot highly divergent history yet understood goddard account understandably contain kind data would allow non algonquianist assess ruhlen hypothesis would grateful anyone could point towards work would cast light question algonquian subgrouping homeland could comment knowledgably ruhlen homeland hypothesis would like thank responded several times generous enough send copies materials could obtain dan alford peter bakker david costa pat crowe marybeth culley anthony fox ives goddard john koontz phil lesourd rob malouf john omeara marc picard karl teeter nt time yet read recommended references think carefully views expressed varied varied seems set write summary could nt resorted extracting crucial passages people messages hope result misrepresentations siebert article siebert frank 1967 original home proto algonquian people deblois contributions anthropology linguistics algonquian pp 1347 national museum canada bulletin 214 anthropological series 78 ottawa several respondents drew attention fact question homeland related question time depth e far back want go search homeland one pointed however algonquian subgroup algic define algonquian homeland area proto algonquian member algic subgroup spoken treating algic homeland separately best guess based location algic homeland would sort northwest coast origin real evidence denny places pa speakers around upper columbia river oregon washington bases conclusions archaelogical evidence connections pa larger algic language family existence handful algonquian languages spoken along northern coast california proposes pa speakers radiated south california west great lakes giving us precursors blackfoot cheyenne arapaho along way least think goes really check article blackfoot arapaho divergent algonquian languages thus family probably started northern rockies spread east algonquianists think things days recognize lot problems siebert locating proto algonquian southern ontario ives article goddard 1994 makes lot sense essentially scenario family came idaho thereabouts onto prairies montana first dropped blackfoot continued east dropping arapaho cree menominee cheyenne core central eastern algonquian familiar archaeological support idea know archaeological support siebert idea southern ontario looks historically iroquoian read number studies witold manczak seem show pretty convincingly conservative languages family around original homeland divergent ones periphery find siebert hypothesis much convincing though know legitimate algonkianists would side ruhlen working algonkian well twenty years consider siebert one best algonkianists ever part seems probably relevant prehistory algonquian blackfoot arapaho atsina mandan siouan hidatsa siouan associated cultures practiced rather similar age grouping systems similar society names system otherwise found north america located close together middle missouri archaeological area points north region fairly uniform culturally c 2000 bp wonder culture widespead area besant may source age grouping practice might also associated algonquian language though would impossible prove think siouan groups must arrived somewhat later development subsequent middle missouri tradition cheyenne seem middle missouri connection perhaps algonquian affiliation middle missouri region older anyway besant largely algonquian existing plains algonquian groups linguistic subgroup may reflect formerly stronger algonquian presence northern plains position blackfoot opinion grammatical system algonquian lexicon know cree central algonquian reasonably well blackfoot remains completely unintelligible although language looks algonquian unlike instance gros ventre arapaho cheyenne algonquian languages unintelligible attributed recent hundred years ago radical sound changes studies deal place blackfoot comparative light think simply possible compare blackfoot algonquian lexically actually blackfoot words stems algonquianists able link algonquian opinion mixed language algonquian stems bulk unknown otherwise extinct language families blackfoot stems sometimes look like algonquian backslang word og blackfoot imita ua plains cree atim otherwise impossible grammatical system close cree whereas lexicon different probably hardcore algonquianists would agree references given denny j peter 1991 algonquian migration plateau midwest linguistics archeology papers twenty second algonquian conference ed william cowan mentioned several respondents dryer matthew 1992 comparison obviation systems kutenai algonquian william cowan ed papers twenty third algonquian conference pp 119163 ottawa carleton university goddard ives 1994 east west cline algonquian dialectology actes du vingt cinqui eme congr es des algonquinistes ed william cowan pp 187211 ottawa carleton university evidently crucial recent work homeland question proulx paul sketch blackfoot historical phonology ijal 55 1 proulx paul 1982 linguistic evidence algonquian iroquoian encounter approaches algonquian archaeology proceedings thirteenth annual conference archaeological association university calgary 1980 pp 189211 calgary university calgary salzmann zdenek 1993 language culture society boulder col westview press contains summary siebert algonquian iroquoian linguistics newsletter published quarterly department linguistics university manitoba winnipeg canada malcolm ross linguistics rspas australian national university canberra act australia 0200