More than 2000 currencies already exist, made by individuals and groups to support causes.
Partial list of currencies here https://coinmarketcap.com/coins/views/all/
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Question: I am a member of a tribe with a language but we don't have a currency. How can I make one?
You should first discuss it with some of the other people and see if there is interest. The next step would be finding a person among yourselves who knows enough about tech to research digital currencies and figure out the parameters / specifications, the distribution etc.
At some point this website will have more suggestions and links to resources that let you create a coin easily. There are a lot of free and cheap 'coin maker' sites where you can enter the parameters and create a digital currency easily, but you are better going slowly and first looking at some of the mistakes others have made.
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Q: I have an idea / opinion that I want to add, or a page I want to make for this site, or I have / know a similar site. Can I add a page or link?
A: Yes, post a link as a comment below, and if it looks okay it will be put on the links page, or added to the main menu. If this site starts to get traffic some way will be made for people to add pages on their own.
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Q: I just learned that the deity / messiah / creator that I was taught to worship since I was a child is a fictional character. Help!
A: This is a common problem. Typically religion is one of the first things that has to be stripped from a culture in order to destroy it. When a genuine original spirituality has been taken away then it can be replaced by a false religion that encourages obedience. You are better off having learned that you were wrong, than not having learned. Repent and learn.
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Q: Wouldn't it be better if everybody used the same currency? We are all equal and one group can trust another.
A: Actually, the more currencies there are, and the more liberty a person has with regard to which currency to use, the more productive a wider population will be in the longer term.
If every person had their own currency, some individuals would have more popular currencies and some less popular. In the past, due largely to limited education, force was the variable that determined whose currency you used. If your neighbor's country had more guns then yours, eventually you would be obliged to use their currency over yours.
Today both of those variables, education and force, have shifted in favor of encouraging currencies in a different direction.
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Q: Isn't the U.S. a fair society though, with equal opportunity and justice and liberty for all?
A: There is a doctrine called "facts on the ground" used by some countries. The idea behind it is that if you can conquer an area and slowly build upon it as groups mix, then all you have to do is hold the carrot of 'future success' in front of the conquered group until, at some point in the future, your claims appear as valid as theirs.
This strategy gives the appearances of developing well, as time passes, only to the extent that the conquered culture can be eliminated. So the question is "To what extent should Indigenous culture be eliminated?".
The United States has largely destroyed any indigenous culture that pre existed it. There are small pockets of Natives that speak their language still, but their entire lives are built around the national melting pot culture.
If the United States continues as a melting pot based on the conquering culture and language, those pockets will become more visible as time passes, Native culture will be in the awareness of more people, but it will be as a relic, not as a culture that can survive.
There are only a few Indigenous American groups that still are survivable, and even those are being taught to confuse their identities. Their manner of thinking, their habits, their reactions all become those of the outside culture. All that is left of some is the clothing and some music and a rebellious attitude that gives the illusion of a surviving culture.
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Q: I'm confused. One place on this website suggests a slow emission of coins to encourage a language, another place suggests most coins be emitted initially.
A: The purpose of this website is not to make a coin for a group nor to define parameters. The purpose of this website is only to give an idea of some of the questions that have to be examined to increase the chances of success.
In this case, a fast emission of coins would only be beneficial if most of the coins were prevented from being bought by outsiders or otherwise controlled by non speakers of the language. A slow emission of coins would solve that initially but then future coins would have to be created in a way that maintained the connection between the coin and language. One solution might be to give fluent Native speakers coins that cannot be spent but that could generate interest, so only the interest could be spent. When coins become more popular that is one issue indigenous language groups should examine.
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Q: Can't a 'benevolent' group from a 'superior' society teach savages civilization though? Don't the superior ones have an obligation to teach the lesser creatures?
A: In primitive times, when one group met another, each assumed the other group was stupid. "All they do is grunt, they don't even know any words", or "They haven't even developed 'such and such' technology, which our race developed centuries ago" etc.
If you look at the initial conflict between Indigenous Americans and white colonizers, both killed a lot of people. But, given a choice, some indigenous people would sometimes 'scalp' an enemy, leave him alive to learn. Sometimes scalping was fatal, but it indicates an ethical sophistication in warfare, as well as a step away from focusing resources on war technology and towards the development of the individual, through war.
The truth is that if one group rules over another group it is because they are afraid of them and/or do not understand their culture. There is no 'benevolent rule', it is a fiction designed to establish 'facts on the ground', which leads to assimilation and death ultimately for both groups, a homogeneous society.
Q: But 'this or that' government is doing such a good thing. They are trying to protect our culture or language, for example https://www.alaskapublic.org/2018/03/09/house-bill-to-declare-state-of-emergency-for-alaska-native-languages-passes-committee/
A: Things like that do not work. It is like an artificial sweetener, saccharin or aspartame, that taste like they have calories but if you rely on them for energy you will fall.
The history of extinctions is a long clear lesson in "Do not trust others to put your interests above theirs". There is no doubt that lawmakers feel they are being sincere, but they are a step down from the original strategic step of conquering, they are in fact only playing their part in finalizing the facts, albeit unwittingly in most cases. The primary interest of a government is to preserve itself, not its composite cultures and languages.
A culture and language survives only to the extent that it is utterly independent of others. This was something the founders of the United States tried to codify, and now that social sciences are more developed it should be clearer to more people.