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Daghida: Cold Lake First Nation Works Towards Dene Language Revitalization - Outline of the context of language loss on the Cold Lake First Nations reserve with description of the collaboratve research project between the academic community and regional efforts to revitalize the Dene Suline language.
The Yinka Déné Language Institute - Information about the Yinka Dene Language Institute and the Dakelh (Carrier) language.
Negative Polarity Expressions in Navajo - Academic paper by Ken Hale and Paul Platero.
Aspects of Navajo Verb Morphology and Syntax: The Inchoative - Academic paper by Ken Hale, Pamela Munro and Paul Platero.
Navajo Reflections of a General Theory of Lexical Argument Structure - Academic paper by Ken Hale and Paul Platero.
Navajo Language Education: Retrospect and Prospects - Description of the growth and development of bilingual education on the Navajo reservation and the results for students, educators and communities.
Surveying Attitudes Towards the Navajo Tribe's Language and Culture Initiative - Describes the results of a survey of attitudes about the implementation of the Navajo Tribe's mandate to teach Navajo language and culture in all schools in the Navajo Nation.
Navajo Code Talkers in World War II - A fact sheet about Navajo code talkers and how they took part in every assault the U.S. Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945.
Diné Dictionary used by The Navajo Code Talkers - E-text of 15 June 1945 revision. Includes the Marine Corps Hymn in Diné.
Wikipedia: Navajo language - Article including a phonological inventory and grammatical information.

Wikipedia Articles

Na-DenÃ© languages - Na-DenÃ© (also Na-Dene, Nadene, Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit) is a proposed Native American language family which includes the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, Tlingit, and possibly Haida. The connection of Haida to the other languages is controversial and the status of the Na-DenÃ© hypothesis remains disputed.
Sergei Starostin - ... Ð¡Ñ‚Ð°ÌÑ€Ð¾ÑÑ‚Ð¸Ð½, (March 24, 1953 â€“ September 30, 2005The Tower of Babel) was a Russian historical linguist and scholar, best known for his work with hypothetical proto-languages, especially the controversial theory of Altaic languages and the formulation of the Dene-Caucasian hypothesis that assumes that Northwest Caucasian, Northeast Caucasian, Yeniseian, Sino-Tibetan, and Na-Dene all have a genetic relationship.
Amerind languages - Amerind is one of the three main families in Joseph Greenberg's controversial classification of all Native American languages, obtained by his mass lexical comparison method â€” the other two being the widely accepted Na-DenÃ© and Eskimo-Aleut families. These three groupings represent three distinct waves of migration in Greenberg's theory, with all American languages outside the Na-Dene and Eskimo-Aleut family being part of Amerind.
John Fredson - John Fredson, also known as "Zhoh Gwatsan" (Wolf Smeller), was a Neetsaii Gwich'in (American Indian tribe in the Na-Dene Language family), and was born near Table Mountain in the Sheenjek River watershed.