EXPLORE Existing LANGUAGE PROGRAM MATERIALS

There’s so much good work going on to revive Nuu-wee-ya’ and we want to help learners to find it. Many tribes have both publicly-available and tribal-member-only resources. If you are a citizen of one of the tribes below, you can navigate to “tribal member only” portions of their website to access restricted materials, or reach out to tribal language program staff directly. In the meantime, check out publicly-available materials below!


Please contact the creators of these materials directly if you have any questions about accessing or using them. Our intent is to make the search for Nuu-wee-ya’ materials easier, but these materials are not ours and are owned by the tribes or tribal members who created them. Please take care in accessing and using these materials in accordance with the wishes of the authors. 


  • Confederated Tribes of Siletz

     Siletz offers some of their language program resources online at: https://www.siletzlanguage.org.

  • Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation

    Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation maintains Wee-ya'-dvn, which features language materials and a copy of the Online Tolowa Dictionary. Access here: https://www.weeyadvn.com/.

  • Online Tolowa Dictionary

    The first dictionary of our language, called Xvsh-wee-ya', was created by Loren Bommelyn and a committee of Tolowa elders and community members in 1983. Today, Loren Bommelyn maintains an online version of this dictionary, which is being continually updated. It can be found here: https://nuuweeya.bombastic.org/