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It actually depends on what kind of tribe they were. there are a whole bunch of different tribes that speak different, eat different foods, hunt different ways, have different religions, and a bunch of other things
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∙ 6y agoLanguages in the Eastern Woodlands cultural area mainly belonged to the very large Algonquian group and to the Iroquoian group. Only the Winnebago, Tutelo, Saponi, Catawba, Occaneechi, Cheraw and Waccamaw were of the Siouan linguistic stock (but some of these languages may possibly have been Algonquian).
Not every tribe speaking an Iroquoian language automatically belonged to the Iroquois confederacy; the Huron, Petun, Neutral and Erie tribes were inveterate enemies of the main Iroquois tribes.
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∙ 6y agoToday, all Tillamook people speak English.
They once spoke Tillamook, an extinct Salishan language. The last fluent speaker was Minnie Scovell who died in 1972.
In an effort to prevent the language from being lost, a group of researchers from the University of Hawaii interviewed the few remaining Tillamook-speakers and created a 120-page dictionary.
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∙ 6y agoCoeur d'Alene people speak English and their native language, called Schitsu'umsh. In English it is also known as the Coeur d'Alene language.
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∙ 6y agoOver 400 different native American languages were spoken in the western part of North America.
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∙ 6y agoIroquian and/or Ojibway
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