Indigenous Knowledge of the Americas

The Extinction Register

Peoples and languages extinct, dormant, or going extinct — named one by one, every count carrying its source and year.

• AkuntsuEvery figure below is dated; the sequence is the entry.
• BeothukDocumented causes, at evidence level:
• Eyak — dAXunhyuugaʼ
• Haida — X̱aad Kíl / X̱aayda Kil *(Canadian choice)*
• Miami-Illinois / Myaamia — myaamia
• The Peoples Register: Who Is Gone, Who Is HereStatus: Researched draft — cultural review pending
• TaínoThe word "extinct" is applied to Taíno in textbooks. The evidence supports three different statements, and this register keeps them separate:
• Wukchumni (Tule–Kaweah Yokuts)
• Yaghan / Yámana
• Yahi (Yana) — Ishi