by Rich Wandschneider | Sep 10, 2015 | American Indian languages, Babel, Charles Mann, human catastrophes, John Wesley Powell, north american languages, Plague, potato famine
I’ve always thought that Alvin’s Indian Heritage of America, published in 1968, was extraordinary in its examination of the Americas before contact. He started with languages. Ironically, it was often missionaries, intent on Christianizing and changing people, who...
