Re: Native American language sampler

Jeffrey:
> I wanted to get some ideas from Native American languages.  I'm looking
> for a sampler -- preferably, a reference that would provide a page or
> two giving examples of phonology, grammar and lexicon for the ten or
> twenty most prominent Native American languages.  I spent some time on
> Amazon and doing web searches, but didn't find what I was looking for
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Marianne Mithun's _The languages of Native North America_ probably
has the information you're after, though perhaps not quite in the
format you want. The rest of the Americas are covered in others of
the Cambridge Language Surveys (Cambridge University Press), but I
can't remember names and titles of the authors.

--And.